Winton Railway Station Winton, Queensland, Australia
By The Outback Way on 07-Mar-17. Waypoint GC71P6X

Found today on our trip to Winton Thanks for placing

We continued today our tour of several AUS states in the NorthWest and thereby searched, found and logged this interesting Traditional-Cache.The weather was - said in one word simply best. The good hidden caches and the being on holidays kept us the whole day in a good mood. The cache had good coordinates, and thus was easy to find. The logbook was okay, and allowed easy logging.Thanks to The Outback Way for the generation of this nice cache Winton Railway Station (with the proper agenda), for leading us here and for showing us this funny location as well as the ongoing maintenance of this cache.PS: Please forgive us the uniform log which is needed due to timing problems - if necessary special actions and happenings are there described where they happened.Greetings from Germany together with the hope to meet somewhere like event or wood. TFTC says H_M_A @ 27. Oktober 2024 @ 13:38 o'clock @ [#22717](https://coord.info/GC71P6X)

Our prime purpose of coming to Winton this morning was to find one cache so that we could claim having found a cache in the Winton LGA. It was a long way to come from Longreach for just one cache, but it was good to visit a town that we had heard about but never visited before. Accurate coordinates and the hint led to a quick find. The cache and contents were in good condition. Thanks The Outback Way for the cache. Mission accomplished. Now to have a look around the area before heading back to Longreach.

Found at 3:09 PM GAFF1.Arrived in Winton around lunchtime, headed over to the Long Waterhole camp; set up; had lunch and then off to do the AL and then to find this cache.We were last here 11 years ago and did a lot more touristy things then than this time as this time it is really hot and we are laying low - apart from the caching Thanks to generalmanager

On holidays for a few days. TFTC

Quick find while staying in town for a few days. TFTC!

TFTC

A nice quick find. Thanks for placing a cache in Winton that we can use (smiley) as a souvenir of our visit.

All good here. T4t$

18/8/24 ontheroadagainbogans

Thanks for showing us the railway station

TFTC!

Nice quick find on our way back to the caravan park after having dinner at the pub. TFTC

Quick park and grab while on our way to Birdsville. TFTH

Awesome thank heaps

Hot day. Kangaroos watching while we had a lunch break NZers very wary wilh dry grass. Tftc

ThanksDropped in a small toyNicw walk out from town

Had no ttrouble in locating this cache and initials were quickly added to the log before our journey continued. Thanks for placing this cache go to generalmanager.

25.07.24 tftc found with Pest77 after a stroll around Winton

Found while on a bucket list trip to the tip of- grabbing a few caches on the way home!! TFTC

Quick park and grab on our trip to Cape York with Hally4. TFTC

A quick stop off in winton on our way to the cape from Albany. A quick find here for kiwinic and myself today. TFTC

Cache is alive and well.Signed the Roos.Tftc

HapsFunden p en fantastisk rejse rundt i AustralienTftc

Quick find thanks to the hint. This town has so much potential for more caches. TFTH

A nice easy find, thanks for the cache. A nice little diversion on the way out of town

Very interesting station and the kangaroo family were checking us out as well. The joey was cute.

Found it hanging around Tftc

Proof today that this line is still active. They were loading up a cattle carrier. About 25 wagons worth. A lot of hamburgers there. Interesting old train station. Thanks.

Good cache. Spending a few days in Winton. TFTC

Out and Grannan55 and Geodogs exploring Winton. What an amazing place. Read the railway history on the information board. Fantastic. Thank you for placing this cache here for us to find. All good here. TNLN TFTC

Quick find - thanks to the people before us who replaced it

Found with KLCED. Tftc

Tftc, with Turnarounds cheers

Spending a few days in Winton, we enjoyed picking up a couple of caches in town. We always love a railway cache ! Thanks for bringing us here and TFTC!

A nice quick find and another addition to our road trip geocaching

Magivered a New Cache and put it where it should be for others to find.

Found during our stay in Winton. Messaged the CO to seek permission before replacing the cache. This is the only cache in Winton - as my family keep telling me - we need to move to Winton and increasing the amount of caches would be a good reason to move TFTC.

Found with Cosmonaut97 and Firebatman88, after Cosmonaut97 contacted the CO to ask permission to replace the cache

We searched a couple of times yesterday and after scrolling through the activity logs and seeing a photo or two of the actual cache, we can honestly say it is no longer in place! If it is there, it would seem it has crept a long way!

Couldnt find it lots of dead branches

DNF

Couldn't find it. Tree was pretty beat up

Seems like the tree had fallen down

Exploring the outback from Idaho USA. Had to get one on this "short cut" TFTC!

Couldn't find it. Don't know if it's still there or been taken.

Velk cesta do Ocenie - den 28 - Mount Isa - Barcaldine, Queensland (750 km)Vera naveer jsem dojela do hornickho msteka Mount Isa, takov mini Ostravy, kter le opravdu v kopcch, a to skoro do posledn chvle nevypadalo. Dnes tedy m dal cesta vedla prvnch 150 km vysoinou, pak 100 km bu a dalch asi 400 km kolem nedozrnch pastvin dobytka. Toho je tu ale hrozn mlo. Asi li ped ltem na porku. Celkem jsem ujela 750 km, ale krajina se mnila, slunce bylo milosrdn kryto mraky, teplota klesla pod 30C a foukal vtk, take jsem u po setmn dojela do Barcaldine sice unaven, ale spokojen. Taky jsem mla bhem dne spoustu zitk. Zastavovala jsem u rznch keek u cesty, zejmna u rznch pamtnk, nap. u pamtnku vnovanmu Dreamtimes - asu snn, co je vlastn historie Aboriginc a jejich kultury, nebo pamtnku vnovanmu pnm Burke a Wills, kte byli nco jako Lewis a Clark v USA - dobrodruzi a objevitel vnitrozem Austrlie. Tak jsem si chtla odlovit jedinou keku v okrese McKinley u starch zemdlskch stroj a zapadla jsem obma pednmi koly do bahna. Bylo to na okraji mal obydlen kiovatky (vesnice) a mstn staci m natst bhem pl hodiny velkm pickupem vythli a j mohla pokraovat. Ke jsem stejn neodlovila, neb bych pky dopadla stejn jak auto. Pda je tu hodn podmen po vech tch boukch a detch. A to v rdiu vyhrouj jejich pokraovnm a taky pchodem tropick cyklony. Nevm, co si pod tm pedstavit, ale nezn to dobe. Pak jsem jela na benzinku doplnit ndr a piel mi dal asi stolet stak ct, e benzin je jen u stojanu .2, neb dochz. Tak to m pekvapilo. Na ostatnch stojanech vude npisy Out of order a vidla jsem je vlastn u nkolik poslednch dn u benzinek. Co se dje, netum, asi njak vzne zsobovn. V rdiu si u stovali, e v Alice Springs je vykoupen supermarket. Nejvt pekvapen ale pilo v malebn obci Winton, kam jsem jela na mstn vlakov ndra, tedy sp stanici, samozejm pro keku. Po jejm odlovu jsem zahldla njak pohyb na trvnku ped ndram a hele, oni to nejsou sochy, ale iv klokani ! A dal byli jet ve stanici. Tak j tu jezdm autem tisce kilometr divoinou, abych je vidla, a klokani zatm jezd vlakem ! Tak to je jasn, e se nememe potkat. Byla jich cel skupina vetn matky s klokntem v kapse a v klidu se psli na trv a taky se tam jen tak povalovali nebo poskakovali. Konen jsem je tedy vidla mimo ZOO. Pozorovala jsem je asi 20 minut a pak u musela uhnt dl. Prost dnes se den vydail a ztra m ek posledn dlouh pejezd na pobe a pak 3 noci na jednom mst, abych si trochu odfrkla.I spend all day on the Hwy from Mt. Isa to Barcaldine. I found some caches on the road, saw many monuments, hills and mesas. I try to find an only cache in McKinley and I got my car stuck in the mud. The local nice old men helped me and pulled the car out. The biggest surprise awaited me at the cache at the train station in Winton. I found the cache and suddenly I see a whole group of kangaroos coming from the station. I drive thousands of kilometers through the wilderness to see them, and they take the train ! Thanks for the cache and greetings from Czech republic.

Thank you - Tash

Thanks Outback Way for placing and maintaining cache, easy find on our way through town.RVCL.

Nice easy find on a scorcher of a day. TFTC

There needs to be more in Winton for the locals

Started the Outback Way treasure hunt. First Geocaching find ever!

OCW PelDroedGwin and geodog Peppa A quick find as we toured the lovely town of Winton, Watched over by a small mob of roos. Tftc

Ocw the Bebes. A quick park and grab as we visit and stay a few days in Winton. Tftc

Quick easy find tftc

Quick stop on the way throughCheers

Travelling with RoddyC, snickersallan and grannysmith1947 as Team4Qld.Travellingfrom Mount Isa area to Longreach, complete some challenges and get some more smiles.Possibly our last for the day, travelling through 5 LGAs, picking up some trads, puzzles, an earthcache, 3 AdLabs,Thanks to the COs who are looking after these caches wether it be local or passing through.Replaced the ring on the Bison and added another logsheetTFTCache The Outback Way

We (RoddyC, hatzofff, Grannysmith1947 and Snickersallan), leave Mount Isa and head for Longreach as we continue to sign as Team Q4. A quick search and the cache was found.Log signed and cache replaced as found on 29 September 2023. TFTC, The Outback Way

My homeward journey has started in the company of RoddyC, hatzofff, and grannysmith1947. To save space in the log sheets, we are signing as Team 4 QLD.Lots of geo traffic has come through as a perfect geo trail led us to this good hide.Thank you, The Outback Way, for placing this cache

Nice quick catche for the morning

TFTC nice easy one with the kids.

While attending QOGM 2023 with the MummaBear and the cubs gang, Nathan_and_Alyce and ??54.Thanks for the cache placement and maintenanceThanks for the huntThank for giving us a reason to stopTook nothing, Left nothing, signed logSigned log as MummaBear and the Cubs and for smaller logs MB&CSigned as MGNT or with our team stampMummaBear and the CubsGEM_54Nathan_and_AlyceTeam

???????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? In all our travels we would not have even thought to travel to this location. ???????????? (HaHa). In your dreams, these cachers do. ??????[:(!] Thanks for an awesome effort. ???????? Devilish Brilliant and Clever I like it Another one off the list TTBLNSL TFTC/TFTH/TFBUH - ?? General Manager ?? [^]??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????

Went for av walk and as I spotted the cache 4 skippies spotted me.

Found by Mary and David at 16:20. Booked into our motel first, and now we are here. Amused to see kangaroo cache guardians, but they weren't at all disturbed by our presence. Our thanks to generalmanager.

On a hot , blustery day we made it to Winton. For me it was my second visit, the first way before I started geocaching.it was a quick find among some scratchy hosts. Luckily no scratches drew blood. It would be nice to see more caches here.

Grub62 found this cache while I was looking in the wrong tree. A nice find while we are visiting Winton. TFTC.

Nice cache thanks for the hide

bunadoorian and I arrived in Winton to have a small explore. We found this cache on our way into town. TFTC and for bringing us here The Outback Way.

A brief stop on way to Mt isa Tftc

Cool, I think we should add a couple more around such an awesome outback town

Heading to Cape York with Papi4506, Geoturtle37 & Team Crackers, after the QOGM in Longreach.This is one of the many caches that we found whilst in the area. The log was signed as PDGC, to save space, (Papi Drovers Geoturtle Crackers).Thanks to all the Co's for making this trip, more enjoyable. Signed and replaced as found.

Found while visiting winton during the Outback festival, thanks for the fun

Had an amazing time at the last QOGM event in Longreach. I feel honoured to be one of only a handful of cachers who has attended all five, although it does concern me that now I will have to plan my own September school holiday fun. This year I travelled up with Gcoven and we scooted along the bottom LGAs for her to collect and I was able to pick up the odd one here and there untilWe hit brand newies on offer in Longreach. During the course of the formal QOGM days we travelled and cached with chamad and Nathan & Alyce as part of our team signing under the collective name of Misfits. Along the way we had plenty of laughs and enjoyed hanging out with each other through the official social events and our own - generally at The Wellshot or at the Longreach Bakery. With the couple of quieter days on the agenda it allowed us time to get everything we wanted in town and even head further afield to Winton with feeling rushed at any point. It was great catching up with everyone some whom I had not seen since Barcaldine and of course the more regular cachers from home. Quite the turn out indeed. Thanks to the efforts of the QOGM team and Jimmy Project for helping to bring this all together.

Visiting Longreach for QOGM 2023. Caching with fellow cachers and signing as TADJR Stopped and found this cache. Signed log. TFTC

Attending QOGM and collecting a few cachers around the Longreach area and beyond - really seeing a variety of landscapes. Thanks to the COs for the placement of these cachers and showing us around the region.

Over from Otautahi Christchurch for this the last Outback Muster. Spent ages working out all the puzzles but I really enjoy jigidi ones. Shame I didnt find them as I didnt join in with someone with a spare seat for the day.Thanks to all the organisers for the hard work and effort in putting this and previous events together. Only sad thing is I could only get to Blackall before this one. Sorry this is cut and paste logging but I will add in a comment as required along the way. Ma te wa from me for the time being. Im sure we will meet again Loved the outback experiences going on while there.

Another day means another day on the road collecting caches.We teamed up with JACS Team, Chamad and Gcoven again for another eventful day on the road. This time it involved plenty of driving (Around 600+kms) We visited Winton, plus some and on the way back we finished off the loop and grabbed some other caches along the way. What a day, what an adventure.Logs signed as The Misfits.Thanks for bringing us here#3972 - TFTC

Today our team drove around town and collected a few more of the local caches before we went for a drive out to Winton. This then saw us take a drive to the next closest cache 88kms away, as you do. It was another fun day with a couple of traditionals, an adventure lab, an earth cache, an event and some others, lol.It was very much a long day of driving and covering over 650 ks for the day, but hey thats caching. Got to see some of the warm up activities at the Winton outback festival, thats going to get messy.We signed logs and replaced caches where found, thanks to the COs for the placements and keeping them going. What a great piece of history here, not sure how much activity this station gets but it was nice to stop by and have a look. thanks for the hint.

Arrived and did the ad lab too. Mummy kangaroo here with Joey on board. Big festival occurring so busy!

A spare day during the winton festival. Tftc

We're out for a pleasant late afternoon stroll after our day exploring the dinosaur museum. This was a pleasant distraction as we passed.Thanks for find #4826TNLN

Outnabout for some solo caching while camping in town overnight. We’re taking the roundabout route to QOGM 2023 at Longreach. It’s always a great day for caching.
TFTC generalmanager

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After the sheep dog trial at the pub, we strolled down past the thirsty camel and found this one.

Found on a sojourn all around on the way to QOGM 2023. A fun jaunt with lots of dust, mud and starry skies.

Thanks generalmanager and clear skies from TeamAstro. ️ Cache the planet! Caches signed as TADJR (Tenkae Astro Deanside JooJoo57 Richmond lad).

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SA’s Leap Year Event - GCA1DNA - keep the date free - 29th February 2024. Keep looking up!

Caching the area during Longreach QOGM 2023 with a great bunch of people teamed up and signing under TADJR which incorporates Deanside , TeamAstro, Tenkae, Joohoo57 and RichmondLad. Just loving these outback trails, red dust, green foliage and blue skies!

Thanks generalmanager for placing these caches, contributing to this great game for others to enjoy Happy trails, Deanside

Had to look for the only cache in the village! Found while in town for a few days on our way to QOGM. TFTC

On our holiday trip, we will be stopping in many different towns before making our way to Longreach for QOGM 2023. We will be taking in the sights and sounds of each town, exploring the local culture, and trying out the regional cuisine. We are looking forward to a fun and exciting journey!

Here's one to find today. Thank you for placing the cache   generalmanager.

Day 100 of our greynomad trip up north from Vic, after a the JLWEvents in Wudinna SA, a tour of Maralinga and caching to claim LGAs in the Eyre Peninsula, through to Alice Springs, Uluru, Darwin, Kakadu and Litchfield we continue our journey back south to Vic through Longreach to attend QOGM. It is also day 99 of a streak.

Going the long way to Muttaburra as we need to tick off this LGA. Cache and log

TFTC TB's visited

On our travels we found ourselves in Winton and just had to do the only traditional cache here, a nice quick find with the kangaroos approval thanks for placing this cache

Found on our school camp in Winton! Thanks

Thank you. Tip: go from the from

Just paper to write your name on. BYO pen

Great one!

Looking around, Winton. Notice this one and only cache in Winton . Had to check it out . Gotcha.

Good spot but couldn’t find it

Mum always said don’t give up. Love the spot and you are right it’s at knee high

Nice hide. Great to get another cache in the outback way.

She may have dropped and broken the screen on my phone, but the 5 yo found this one. Much to her delight.

Winton Railway Station
1.5/1.5
Small
Traditional Cache

On our way to Alice Springs we have to stop here for breakfast. Quite a sleepy town on a Sunday, we forgot to top up our petrol. Was a nervous drive to the next town!

Thank you for the cache The Outback Way.