NOVEMBER 2008–BEETROOT CAFE KENDALL

YES – BEETROOT.

TROVE KENDALL

ON THE XPT NO 61 KENDALL

VIEW THROUGH WIRE

ON THE XPT NO 52

KENDALL RAILWAY STATION.

ON THE XPT NO 16 KENDALL

KENDALL STATION WITH ARTS AND CRAFTS.

http://www.artsmidnorthcoast.org/regional_galleries.php

http://www.heritage.nsw.gov.au/07_subnav_01_2.cfm?itemid=4801194

Kendall railway precinct is located on the North Coast line, the major trunk line from NSW to Queensland. Although originally constructed as an isolated line from Lismore to Murwillumbah in 1894, the importance of connecting the North Coast to the general railway system led to the extension of the line southward to Maitland in 1903.
Railways in the far north coast region had been proposed as early as the 1870s. The main aim was to divert rural products in the region to a safe shipping port on the coast, using rail transport. The early farming settlements of the North Coast region of NSW began in the late 1830s with the expanding pastoral industry forming the basis for several towns such as Casino and Kempsey along the north coast. It was not until 1894 that the 62 mile section of railway line was opened between Lismore and Murwillumbah, leading to the extension of the line southward to Maitland in 1903.
The village of Kendall is on the NSW Mid North Coast half way between Taree and Port Macquarie. Kendall was originally named Camden Heads, as it is located on the Camden River but was renamed Kendall, in 1891, after the Australian poet Henry Kendall. Henry Kendall lived in the area from 1875 to 1881 when he was the first Forest Inspector for New South Wales.
The forests played an important part in the history of Kendall, as it did throughout the North Coast region, for attracting the cedar-getters and establishing the timber industry. As early as 1856, ships arrived at Camden Haven specifically to pick up red cedar before proceeding upriver to present-day Kendall where the first organised timber milling took place as early as the 1860s (van Kempen; 2006).

ON THE XPT NO 11

A GLIMPSE. OF NORTHERN NSW COUNTRYSIDE. BETWEEN KENDALL AND WINGHAM. JUST A GLIMPSE. THAT’S ONE OF THE THINGS I LIKE ABOUT TRAIN  TRAVEL.  I WAS WEDGED INTO ONE OF THE SEATS WITH THE CARRIAGE STRUCTURE BLOCKING MOST OF MY VIEW.