The Captains Flat railway line once intersected the town of Hoskinstown while the old mine was still in use around 1940.
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00:07 The heyday in Hoskins Town was in the mid-1900s
00:11 when the Captain's Flat branch railway line ran through the village.
00:15 Opened in 1940, it closed just three decades later in 1968,
00:21 sooner after the Captain's Flat mine shut down.
00:24 Although the former hotel and the post office,
00:27 which apparently operated as a sly grog outlet, are now private residences,
00:32 if you look closely while exploring the area,
00:34 you can still find remnants of the ghostly railway line.
00:38 Sometimes it ends abruptly at road crossings.
00:43 Sometimes it disappears into pine forests.
00:48 It also crosses old bridges.
00:52 And if you know where to look,
00:54 parts of the Holt platform, one of the smallest in New South Wales, still remain.
01:01 Anyway, I think it's time to move along.
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