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Sat 25 May 1912 - Nepean Times (Penrith, NSW : 1882 - 1962)
Page 6 - Glenbrook
Glenbrook
Great progress is being made with
all the excavation work on the devi-
ation and most of the big cuttings
and banks will soon be completed.
The tunnel will also soon be through,
and if the weather keeps favourable
most of the work will be done in
three or four months time.
One of the gangers, Mr Thomas
Walker, the riding ganger, had the
good luck to win £1800 in Tattersall's
sweep, having drawn the second
horse in a sweep last week.
The lagoon has supplied sufficient
water by gravitation for all locomo-
tive purposes since January of last
year, but it is now hearly done, and
the Department has placed a pumping
plant in position to pump out the re-
maining two feet that will not gravi-
tate. Before this is exhausted there
will be a plentiful supply at
Valley Heights, as the Department is
now laying wooden pipes to bring the
water down from Linden by gravita-
tion. Glenbrook will then be cut out
as a watering place, all goods trains
taking water at Valley Heights in
stead of here.
A large number turned up to wit-
ness the football match on Saturday
between the Rovers and the Wara-
tahs, which resulted in a win for
the former by 16 points to 8. For the
winners, J Burns, J Dunn and H
Ryan scored. The Waratahs scored
from a crowded ball. One splendid
feature in the game was the run (75
yards) of R Sinclair (Rovers), who
passed to J Dunn-the latter scoring.
Both teams were new to the game,
and did very well under the circum-
stances. The umpire (Mr. Walters)
gave every satisfaction.
Another accident occurred on the
deviation works here, Mr William
Doodle having his skull fractured
with a stone from a shot fired in
blasting operations. He is an inmate
of the Nepean Cottage Hospital, and
is progressing favorably.