All aboard train into town | Our history

By Susan O'Leary
Updated December 7 2017 - 1:53pm, first published 1:30pm
Photos: Yass and District Historical Society

On Saturday, June 28, 1890 the NSW Secretary for Public Works Bruce Smith turned the first sod marking the beginning of the Yass rail connection to the main train line to Sydney.

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