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Trans Australia train 1919 journey
I have an 86 yr old friend whose grandmother Mrs Keleher was on the trans Australian train in 1919 with her daughters - then aged 3 and 4, when it was stopped from entering Western Australia due to the Spanish flu epidemic. My friend's grandfather had just died in Victoria (not from the flu) and her grandmother decided to return to WA. My friend cannot find any information on this stoppage of the trans Australian train and I found your website while looking.

Do you have any information on this event and what happened to the passengers? Did the train stop in Adelaide or somewhere on the Nullabor? And how long were the passengers kept out of WA? My friend is very interested in finding out as much as she can and knows only that it was 1919.

Any information you have will be very greatly appreciated. I am a member of the Family History Society of Rockingham & Districts Inc. We put out a quarterly newsletter called 'Between the Lines" and I am the editor.

Thanks you for any help,

Pamela Lydford