["The Railway", The Hedland Advocate (Port Hedland, WA), Saturday 16 October 1909, page 3]
The Railway.
It is the unexpected that always happens. By the s.s. Charon on Wednesday 24 of the contractors' men arrived, also 100 tons of rails, 2,000 sleeps, and four trucks. It is not intended, we understand, to start the construction immediately, but a deal of preliminary work has to be done, such as provision for stacking both rails and sleepers, erection of offices, etc. By the next trip of the Koombana two heavy and one light locomotive will arrive, and, it is stated, each boat arriving from Fremantle will bring nothing less than 300 tons of railway material.
Naturally all the world of Hedland rejoices exceedingly at the sudden turn in the tide of events. There will be no more bleatings and ravings about incessant delays--the railway has been started in earnest.
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