Conversely, hanging out the laundered clothes and sheets are said to be a temptation for the clouds to produce a sudden downpour to spoil the washing.

Whatever the residents of our green and pleasant land around Millthorpe have been doing to provoke the rain to fall, our January rain chart is looking very healthy with a further 73mm since the middle of the month.

Howard Collins, Chief Executive of NSW and Sydney Trains, visited the Millthorpe Station last week on Thursday, January 24.

The platform extension and associated works have been completed by the contractor for Transport NSW and the Station has been handed over to Sydney Trains who will manage the station following the opening.  

Howard had a first-hand look at the work and was accompanied by the officials who will finalise timetabling, signalling and other logistical and maintenance issues prior to the opening.

Howard was impressed that the Station is virtually unchanged since its opening in 1886 and was fulsome in his praise for the campaign conducted by the Millthorpe Village Committee to save the Station from demolition in the 1990s.

He commended the committee for its work over the past teh years to get the Station re-opened for Stop on Request services. Howard and his team were accompanied by the Blayney Shire Council General Manager, Rebecca Ryan, and Councillor Bruce Reynolds.

The Millthorpe Village Committee was represented by its President, Sam Yeates; the past President, John Mason; Secretary, Nick Anagnostaras, and Laurie Williams, coordinator of the ‘Millthorpe on Track’ sub-committee.

The MVC also briefed Howard on its plans to market Millthorpe once the train services re-commence.