Walcha’s era of coach travel

By Bob Walsh
Updated September 6 2017 - 9:20am, first published 9:05am
Meeting the train: George Bowden with his coach and four near the first of three bridges over the Apsley River in Fitzroy Street.
Meeting the train: George Bowden with his coach and four near the first of three bridges over the Apsley River in Fitzroy Street.

Horse-drawn coaches once provided public transport in the local district; one of the earliest is said to have travelled between Bendemeer and Walcha in the days when Cobb & Co had a service from Tamworth to Stanthorpe via Bendemeer, Uralla and Armidale.

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