Pine Creek - Places to See

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Pine Creek - Places to See

The Railway Museum

The railway buildings in Miller Terrace are now of heritage significance. Built in 1888-9 they include a station building, water tank, residence, weighbridge and goods shed.

The Railway Museum, located in the old station building, has displays which give a detailed history of the district. A couple of excellent booklets Early Days in Pine Creek and Pine Creek Heritage Trail are available. The latter is a fascinating tour of Pine Creek's historical past.

Adjacent to the Railway Museum (just across the line to the north) is a mining equipment display. The short walk from the museum to the display takes you past the only remaining railway employees residence which is now used as a Youth Hostel.

The National Trust Museum
The National Trust Museum is in the Old Pine Creek Repeater Station and has excellent displays which relate to the mining and the Chinese in the area. There are interesting displays of old bottles, a display of Chinese artifacts from the area, and an excellent display of the rocks of the area including a piece of yellow cake and some superb fossils of shrimps.

The Bakery
Of all Pine Creek's attractions none are more interesting than the relics of the Chinese occupation of the area.

The Bakery, which is nothing more than an old and very unassuming tin shed, seems to capture exactly what life must have been like in Pine Creek around the turn of the century. It was built in 1908 as Jimmy Ah You's Butcher's Shop at Mount Diamond. When he moved to Pine Creek he took the shopfront with him. He rebuilt it using local timber. To bake bread he carted ant bed mortar from the bush to make the ovens which are still standing out the back. Jimmy Ah You and son Jimmy Ah Toy baked bread in the ovens until World War II. During the war the Army took it over as a bakery for troops. After 1945 bread came from large suppliers and Pine Creek's bakery became redundant.

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