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5 unusual facts about Glenbrook


Caddie, the Story of a Barmaid

They move to railway camps at Glenbrook in the Blue Mountains where her drunken father works as a railway fettler.

Dawson, Oregon

Dawson lies about 6 miles west of 99W on Dawson Road west of Bellfountain, northwest of Alpine, and north of Glenbrook.

Duane Leroy Bliss

He moved his logging trains from Glenbrook to Tahoe City on the northwest shore of the lake and converted them to passenger service.

Glenbrook, New South Wales

Since 2005, the suburb has been the home of The Australian Gnome Convention organised by the local Rotary Club and held on Australia Day each year.

One year later, amid a general renaming, the station was given the name of the nearby creek, Glenbrook, which Sir John Jamison thought came from Regents Glen.


Glenbrook Creek

Glenbrook Creek gave its name to Glenbrook Railway Station, which in turn gave its name to Glenbrook village, to which the creek flows south of.

Glenbrook High School

Glenbrook North High School, Northbrook, Cook County, Illinois, which was the only Glenbrook High School until its sister high school was built

Glenbrook Square

Based on leasable square feet, Glenbrook Square is also one of the largest malls in the state of Indiana along with Castleton Square in Indianapolis and Southlake Mall in Merrillville.

Noroton River

The Phillips family, heirs of Charles Henry Phillips, who created Phillips Milk of Magnesia, long had a Tudor-style mansion on a four-acre lot along the Noroton River in Glenbrook (where the first Milk of Magnesia factory was located).

Peter Garling

Garling has been involved in multiple public inquiries and royal commissions, including those into the 1997 Thredbo landslide, the Glenbrook and Waterfall railway accidents, the collapse of the HIH Insurance, and the affairs of the Medical Research and Compensation Foundation.

Ropes Creek railway line

Between Boxing Day 1990 & 8 January 1991 a major trackwork shutdown that was between St Marys and Glenbrook, the line was temporarily reopened as far as Dunheved to allow suburban trains that normally stabled at Penrith to be stabled in the 4 track yard and on platform 2 or the Down Branch track.

Taylor-Reed corporation

Initially headquartered near Taylor's home in Mamaroneck, New York, the company soon moved operations a few miles away to Crescent Street in Glenbrook, Connecticut, a light-industrial and residential section of Stamford in Fairfield County, Connecticut.

The Glenbrook

The Glenbrook and its sister, #2, The Tahoe were built to haul cordwood and lumber from Glenbrook, Nevada on the east shore of Lake Tahoe to Spooner Summit, at the crest of the Carson Range.

The Lithgow Plot

The whole event has come to light now thanks to the retired Detective Superintendent Cliff McHardy (who currently resides in Glenbrook).


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