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Croydon Junction, Queensland, Australia

Historical place· 1931 city -25.517, 152.683

Renamed Baddow, Queensland, Australia — map location from the modern place

Railway junction on the Maryborough - Gayndah line, about two miles from Maryborough, Queensland. Renamed Baddow by executive approval of the Commissioner for Railways, announced 29 October 1931, after the site chosen by the Maryborough pioneer E. T. Eldridge in 1848. NOT the Croydon in the Gulf Country (#1481). Coordinates inherited from Baddow.

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  1. Died 29 JAN 1928
    Ellen Jane Rodgers
    Gayndah Road

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Maryborough Chronicle Date 1931-10-29 · Page 6 · Article CROYDON JUNCTION RE-NAMED. · Trove Id 151853738 Secondary

Maryborough Chronicle · Maryborough, Queensland, Australia

executive approval has been given for this sta-tion to be renamed "Baddow", which is associated with that of the site chosen by the late Mr. E. T. Eldridge, one of the pioneers of Maryborough, who settled at the old township con-tiguous to the place under review in the year 1848

Quoting the letter from the secretary to the Commissioner for Railways read out by J. Blackley MLA; hyphenation is the newspaper's line breaks. Corroborated by the Daily Mercury (Mackay) of 3 November 1931, 'CROYDON JUNCTION RENAMED' (nla.news-article170287081). Later agitation for 'West Maryborough' came to nothing - Baddow is the name the locality still carries.