{"id":33630,"date":"2013-05-17T23:39:36","date_gmt":"2013-05-17T13:39:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/?p=33630"},"modified":"2020-12-18T14:09:48","modified_gmt":"2020-12-18T04:09:48","slug":"yarramans-ready-to-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/2013\/05\/17\/yarramans-ready-to-party\/","title":{"rendered":"Yarraman&#8217;s Ready To Party"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_33631\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-33631\" style=\"width: 740px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/20130517yarraman.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-33631\" title=\"20130517 Yarraman Rail Centenary\" src=\"http:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/20130517yarraman.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"740\" height=\"460\" srcset=\"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/20130517yarraman.jpg 620w, https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/20130517yarraman-300x186.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 740px) 100vw, 740px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-33631\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Yarraman Historical Society president Helene Johnson with a photograph of the arrival of the first train in the town in 1913 (from the collection of local resident Kerry Wyvill)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>May 17, 2013<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Yarraman residents are getting ready for a big day of celebrations on Saturday (May 18) to mark the 100th anniversary of the arrival of the first train to town.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;ll be activities all day at Heritage House in Millar Street, a mountain bike social ride on the Brisbane Valley Rail Trail and a Yarraman Weir Walk.<\/p>\n<p>But the most popular event is likely to be the Railway Dance which will be held in the Yarraman Community Hall from 7:00pm.<\/p>\n<p>This supper dance will have a European feel with live music and entertainment by Euroband from Hervey Bay.<\/p>\n<p>Yarraman Historical Society president Helene Johnson said a special display of historic photographs, documents and business dockets had been assembled at Heritage House for visitors to peruse.<\/p>\n<p>Some of these belong to the Society, but many are from the private collections of Leon and Kerry Wyvill so it is a good opportunity to bring back a few memories.<\/p>\n<p>At 11:30am, an official commemorative ceremony will be held with the planting of an ironbark and the unveiling of a plaque on the old railway station building, which was shifted to the Heritage House complex in 1998.<\/p>\n<p>During the day, there\u2019ll also be live entertainment, bush poetry, a barbecue, free face-painting and circus workshops, and two draught horses pulling a wagon will also be taking visitors on free rides.<\/p>\n<p><strong>A brief history of the Yarraman railway:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Opened 1913<\/li>\n<li>First rail motor 1931<\/li>\n<li>Last rail motor 1967<\/li>\n<li>Last steam train 1969<\/li>\n<li>First diesel 1969<\/li>\n<li>Line closed 1993<\/li>\n<li>Tracks removed 1996<\/li>\n<li>Station building relocated 1998<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<figure id=\"attachment_32206\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-32206\" style=\"width: 740px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/yarramancentenary.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-32206\" title=\"Yarraman Centenary\" src=\"http:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/yarramancentenary.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"740\" height=\"464\" srcset=\"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/yarramancentenary.jpg 620w, https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/yarramancentenary-300x188.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 740px) 100vw, 740px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-32206\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The opening celebrations at the Yarraman Railway station in May 1913<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Related article: <a href=\"http:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/2013\/05\/yarraman-on-track-for-centenary\/\">Yarraman On Track For Centenary<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yarraman residents are getting ready for a big day of celebrations on Saturday, May 18<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":33631,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[176],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v19.11 - 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