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District Photo Album
Harbour Main District

Looking out the track to the Avondale Railway Station c1950's Looking out the track from the Mill Road area to the Railway Station in Avondale. The attached is a picture looking out the track from the Mill Road area to the Railway Station in Avondale built by the Anglo-Newfoundland Telegraph Company c. 1870-1880 and served as a repeater station for the first telegraph land line serving St. John’s. From 1890 to 1949 the structure served as a freight and passenger station operated by the Reid Newfoundland Company. The houses and sheds on the right side of the tracks were most likely belonging to the Railway and may have housed the Agents. The house on the back of the Railway station is the home of John (Jack) and Lillian Hicks (both now deceased). Jack worked on the Railway for years before retiring. Once he retired, he sold this house to Terrance Doyle and his family. Terrance was the last Railway Agent before the Government closed down “The Bullet”. Contributed by Barbara McGrath

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