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Fish River was a small railway station on the Main South railway line in New South Wales, Australia. It opened in 1875 as part of the extension of the Great Southern line from Goulburn to Gunning [1] and closed to passenger services in 1975. [2] The signal box survived for a time after the platform was demolished, little trace of the station now survives.
In 1884, Fish River was classified as a siding requiring passengers to notify the guard of their intent to disembark at the previous station (Goulburn or Gunning). The journey time from Sydney was approximately 6.5 hours with the cost of a Single first-class fare being 28 shillings and 3 pence. [3]
Fish River was the scene of a fatal accident on 27 October 1888. [4] It is alleged that the signal was not appropriately resulting in a collision with another train. [5]
On 22 February 1914, Fish River was the scene of two non-fatal accidents occurring on the same day where, in one accident, a engine was slightly damaged and, in a second accident, a wagon was derailed. [6]
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Lawrence Cummins, known informally as Larry Cummins, was a bushranger who operated primarily in the districts surrounding the Abercrombie River. In July 1863 he participated in the Mudgee mail robbery led by Fred Lowry and John Foley. Soon afterwards Cummins and his younger brother John carried out several robberies. They were identified and John Cummins was apprehended; he was accidentally shot and killed while being escorted by police constables. Three weeks later Cummins was captured with his associate Lowry, in an encounter with the police which resulted in Lowry’s death. Cummins was sent to Berrima Gaol in late 1863, from where he escaped in November 1866 with another prisoner. From December 1866 to April 1867 Cummins carried out a series of audacious robberies. In April, during an attempted robbery of Webb's store on the Fish River in company with John Foran, he received a wound in the face from birdshot. He was captured soon afterwards and sentenced to thirty years hard labour and sent back to Berrima Gaol.
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