Tarcoon, New South Wales

Tarcoon, New South Wales

Tarcoon is a ghost town located in the Brewarrina Shire of far west New South Wales, Australia. It was a transportation centre with a Cobb and Co hotel and a railway station from 1901 to the closure of the Brewarrina branch of the Main Western line in 1974. [cite web
publisher = www.nswrail.net
title=Brewarrina Branch
url = http://www.nswrail.net/lines/show.php?name=NSW:brewarrina
accessdate = 2006-11-28 ] [cite web
publisher = Cobb and Co Heritage Trail
title=Brewarrina Shire
url = http://www.cobbandco.net.au/Brewarrina.htm
accessdate = 2006-11-28 ] In 2005, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation ran a program on the effects of a catastrophic road accident on the Tarcoon Road to Bourke, New South Wales that occurred in 1979. [cite web
publisher = Australian Broadcasting Corporation
work =Australian Story
title=Out of the Dust
date= 5 September 2005
url = http://www.abc.net.au/austory/content/2005/s1451457.htm
accessdate = 2006-11-28 ]

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