AS if following the ghosts of trains leaving John Darling Colliery and heading for the BHP steelworks, I make my way off the straggly ribbon of sand that marks the Wildflower Walk and rejoin the Fernleigh Track, near the old Jewells railway platform.
The presence of the rail line was one reason the New Redhead Estate and Coal Company planned a local subdivision called Wommara Estate. That development didn't take hold, but houses gradually colonised the bush near the rail line.
