By Ruza Zivkusic
SUNSHINE’S railway history will come alive tomorrow as immigrants look back at their early days of settling in Australia.
The Sunshine Historical Society will hold a meeting for European settlers who came to the area to work on the railways in the 1950s.
They migrated from England to Sunshine in search of a better life as part of a program called Operation Snail.
Local historian Olwen Ford said during the operation they had timber parts for their houses shipped from Europe to Sunshine.
The parts were used in buildings homes which eventually housed more than 300 families.
“It is an unusual story in that the houses came too,” Ms Ford said.
The meeting of migrants will take place tomorrow in the Sunshine Library Harvester Meeting Rooms.
