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Crooble - a brief history
Public school and playground fixtures; post office with residence which operated the telephone exchange and a convenience store; Atlantic fuel deport; B.P. fuel depot; stock and station agent; grain agent; railway station; water dam and water tanks centre for steam train; stockyards for loading cattle and sheep; bag stacks for holding grain; cricket club with club house; hall and tennis courts still in existence; silo terminal; passenger train from Moree delivered goods three times a week; Baby Clinic Sister came by train- kept records and offered advice to mother and babies.
Crooble is located approximately 50km by road north west of Warialda, 45km north east of Moree and 35km north of the Gwydir Highway via Pallamallawa. Access from all directions is via roads with unsealed sections.
The village is isolated and not on any through or linking route. The village has a few houses, grain silo and a community hall. There are no shops or visitor facilities.
