Project details
- Location
- Menindee, Australia
- Starting
- April 2019
Project updates
- Empowering the Community to Engineer their own Success See Project Updates
The initiative
Menindee is a town on the Darling River in western New South Wales. The town’s population is small, no more than a thousand. The Menindee Rail Carriage is a 1920s rail carriage that was transported to Menindee to create a unique opportunity; the first motel serviced by public school students. The carriage provides training in tourism and hospitality, as well as funding for Menindee Central School. Scott’s project involves a comprehensive renovation of the carriage’s bathroom facilities – an increase in showers, a new toilet block, and restoring water supply to vintage washbasins.
Australia
This project was conceived, executed, and maintained by the community. Now they need a little expertise to step forward.
Scott Johnson
Scott heard about the Menindee Rail Carriage from his wife, Caitlyn Whitby-Johnson, who has been involved in excursions from Killara High School to Menindee. Scott has been travelling the 1000kms to Menindee from Sydney in order to help the local community.

Scott Johnson’s
project updates
Empowering the Community to Engineer their own Success
Menindee is a small border town in far west New South Wales. Resting on the banks of the Darling River, Menindee is home to no more than a thousand people.