Spring Hill, New South Wales (Orange)
Encyclopedia
Spring Hill is a small village 13 km south-east of Orange
, Australia
. Its buildings date back to the 1870s and a Heritage Trail has been established for tourists. At the 2006 census
, Spring Hill had a population of 276 people.
overlay for processing in the ironworks at Lithgow
, the company decided to construct a private railway line from the Iron Duke Copper Mine at Cadia to the Great Western Railway
at Spring Hill. The line remained until 1945, having enjoyed a renaissance during the Second World War.
Orange, New South Wales
Orange is a city in the Central West region of New South Wales, Australia. It is west of the state capital, Sydney, at an altitude of . Orange has an estimated population of 39,329 and the city is a major provincial centre....
, Australia
Australia
Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...
. Its buildings date back to the 1870s and a Heritage Trail has been established for tourists. At the 2006 census
Census in Australia
The Australian census is administered once every five years by the Australian Bureau of Statistics. The most recent census was conducted on 9 August 2011; the next will be conducted in 2016. Prior to the introduction of regular censuses in 1961, they had also been run in 1901, 1911, 1921, 1933,...
, Spring Hill had a population of 276 people.
Mining
Following the failure of Messrs G & C Hoskins in 1915 to persuade the New South Wales Government to construct a branch railway from the sidings at Spring Hill to the mines at Cadia where they had agreed to remove the ironstoneIronstone
Ironstone is a sedimentary rock, either deposited directly as a ferruginous sediment or created by chemical repacement, that contains a substantial proportion of an iron compound from which iron either can be or once was smelted commercially. This term is customarily restricted to hard coarsely...
overlay for processing in the ironworks at Lithgow
Lithgow, New South Wales
Lithgow is a city in the Central Tablelands of New South Wales, Australia and is the centre of the local political division City of Lithgow. It is located in a mountain valley named Lithgow's Valley by John Oxley in honour of William Lithgow, the first Auditor-General of New South Wales.Lithgow is...
, the company decided to construct a private railway line from the Iron Duke Copper Mine at Cadia to the Great Western Railway
Main Western railway line, New South Wales
The Main Western Railway is a major railway in New South Wales, Australia. It runs through the Blue Mountains, Central West, North West Slopes and the Far West regions.- Description of route :...
at Spring Hill. The line remained until 1945, having enjoyed a renaissance during the Second World War.