Beyond Birdum: Road Transport on the Old Highways of the Territory Around the Years 1964-1974: Old Truckies Tales: Short Stories and History by Bob Foster and Renegade Renehan

Book Description

Secondhand. Good condition. Wear to book corners and edges. Previous owner has signed inside page, now covered with blank ex libris bookplate sticker. Dirt marks on the title page.

Birdum is an old ghost town 500 kilometres South of Darwin. It was the terminus for the now defunct North Australian Railway (the NAR), which ran from Darwin down toward the centre from 1929 to 1942. Then, during the war years, Larrimah became the terminus. The NAR rail system was closed after Cyclone Tracy in 1974, the new 21st century Asia Rail follows a different route.

Birdum was also the northern junction for the mail and overland freight coming by road or horse from South Australia and the eastern states, heading north to go on the rail for Darwin. (TROVE)