Nevertire, New South Wales

Mitchell Highway, Nevertire

Nevertire is a rural village in New South Wales, Australia. It is located at the junction of the Mitchell Highway and the Oxley Highway, in Warren Shire. Nevertire is about 525 kilometres northwest of Sydney, 68 km north-west of Narromine and about 90 km from Dubbo. It is about 20 km south-west of Warren on the western end of the Oxley Highway.^[1] At the 2006 census, Nevertire had a population of 331 people.^[2]

History

Originally the village was known as Warren Pond. The Main West railway line reached Nevertire in 1882 and the local pub was already trading before the town was surveyed in 1883. The town was devastated by a cyclone on 28 December 1896.^[3] The town once had a railway station, operated by the State Rail Authority of New South Wales but with the demise of country rail travel in the 1980s, the passenger services were replaced by a coach service run by CountryLink.

Services in Nevertire

Nevertire is at the junction of the Main Western railway line to Nyngan and the branch line to Warren. The village is now served by three CountryLink Coach services: one to Warren, one to Bourke and one to Cobar/Broken Hill.

There is a large grain handling facility on the railway line. The main building in Nevertire is the Nevertire hotel. This hotel serves as a bar, hotel, motel, post office and restaurant. There also was a General Store (building present, condition unusable) and a cafe, formerly the Nevertire Cafe.

Education

Nevertire Public school closed at the conclusion of the 2002 academic year, due to a lack of enrolments. Children in Nevertire now go to Warren Central School or St Mary's in Warren.

The village is the subject of Betty Casey’s poem Nevertire^[3] and Henry Lawson once described it as the edge of the Great Grey Plain.

References

1. ^ Nevertire Retrieved on 2009-6-27
2. ^ Australian Bureau of Statistics (25 October 2007). "Nevertire (State Suburb)". 2006 Census QuickStats. http://www.censusdata.abs.gov.au/ABSNavigation/prenav/LocationSearch?collection=Census&period=2006&areacode=SSC18335&producttype=QuickStats&breadcrumb=PL&action=401. Retrieved 7 November 2009. 
3. ^ ^{a b} Readers Digest Guide to Australian Places, Reader’s Digest (Australia) Pty. Limited, Surry Hills N.S.W., 1993, ISBN 0864383991

Coordinates: 31°51′S 147°43′E / 31.85°S 147.717°E / -31.85; 147.717