With the discovery of diamonds at Kimberley, Victoria West was already an important stop on the road to the north. When the railway line was built to Kimberley during the 1860's it however bypassed Victoria West for some reason. Hutchinson was established as railhead for Victoria West. The junction was named after Sir Walter Hely-Hutchinson, Governor of the Cape Colony in the years preceding South Africa becoming a Union.
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