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27-JUL-2006 Paul Dudley

Simmonston

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Flinders Ranges in the distance. Simmonston is not quite the same as other ruins.
Before there were railways, bullock teams went this way, and a town was surveyed
here on the assumption that the railway would go the same way. Two substantial
buildings were started. But the railway ended up going another way, and the buildings
were never completed. Simmonston is not so much a ghost town as a town that never was.

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