Hay Railway Station (1882)
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Former Hay Railway Station.The Hay Railway Station is also home to the POW & Internment Camp Interpretive Centre. Over 6,000 German, Italian and Japanese civilian Internees and Prisoners of War (POW) were kept in three Prison Camps at Hay between 1940 and 1946. They were guarded by over 600 members of 16th Australian Garrison Battalion.
The 'Dunera Boys', 1,984 German Jews and other refugees from Nazi occupied Europe, were the first internees of British Government WWII policy and arrived in Hay on 7th September 1940.Hay the regional centre for the Riverina District of New South Wales Australia