Visitor Centre Reserve - Lightning Ridge, NSW - Carriages and Coaches on Permanent Display on Waymarking.com

This wagon was last used by Betty & Ivan Dawson in 1956 & is now a tourist attraction in the opal mining centre of Lightning Ridge. It is undercover & in a reasonable state of repair.

I found the following information about the wagon, which I have paraphrased, on the website listed below:

The wooden wagon on the corner of 3-Mile Road and Bill O’Brien Way is looking much smarter under the corrugated skillion roof built by Nexo Engineering under the Shire’s 2007 Heritage Grant program. Betty Dawson gave the wagon to Fire Opals in the early 1970s.

Due to drought conditions in 1946, the Bunyans came to Lightning Ridge from Dirranbandi. They were drain delvers and tank sinkers and used the wooden wagon to cart their personal possessions from site to site. It stayed with daughter, Betty, when she married local Ivan Dawson in 1952.

Thanks to community spirit and cooperation, the deteriorating Dawson Wagon is presented neatly for posterity and is perhaps even a photo opportunity for visitors.

Type and Quantity: One Wagon Admission Fee: No. On-line Documentation: [Web Link] Opening Hours: Not listed

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