Ormondville Rail Preservation Group Inc.

Ormondville Station's Main Office - 2000

The main office at Ormondville Station serves a range of purposes. For homestay guests, it is the combined dining room and sitting room, complete with a large attractive carpet square, comfortable arm chairs, coffee table and, in wintertime, a lovely warm fire. 

For those who stay for the Saturday evening social activities on working bee weekends, it is a movie theatre, or a slide theatre, where railway subjects share the limelight with such diverse topics as Antarctica, international tourism in the 1960s, nature and heritage conservation and scientific studies.  

Here, though, is the main office in another familiar capacity - as a lecture theatre. 

This photo shows our chief lecturer instructing his keen pupils on the art of mealtime etiquette - otherwise known as 'leftover conservatioon'.... 

On the table is a typical example of what several hours earlier was lunch, and which then became afternoon tea, and which will in due course become supper (after dinner at the pub). 

'Stretch', the station ghost, may also be seen taking a keen interest from his favourite train photo in the top left corner of the photo. 

What's more, the station clock indicates that the Bay Express is about to race into the station - and that within moments lecturer and pupils (but not 'Stretch' the ghost) will have vanished.....! (Photo: Karen Israelsen, 10/6/2000)