| Main facility: |
Station (Closed)
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| Lines: |
Tocumwal Branch
Tocumwal Branch
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| Location: |
(145.5574°, -35.8079°) [exact] GDA94
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| Distance: |
763.860 km from Sydney
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| History: |
| 11-Feb-1929 | Opened |
| unknown | Closed |
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| Other facilities: |
Turntables: unknown size, manual?, ruins (Broad gauge pivot table that was converted to dual gauge in Oct-1916. Converted to a rocker centre in 1927.); unknown size, manual?, derelict (Rocker table provided in the 1940s as part of war-time expansion. Was abolished in the late 1960s. The pit was used for the partial re-installation of a 53 turntable (now suspended).); 60' manual, closed (Standard gauge Sellers turntable) |
| Photos: |
unknown, 1998, 2005 |
| Description: |
The end of the line, and the beginning of a broad gauge line over the border into Victoria. When the line opened there was a pair of sidings and a simple 55m platform. There were not even watering facilities for the locos. The following year an engine shed was added, and the existing Victorian turntable was made dual gauge. By 1927 a transfer yard had been built on the eastern side of the location. In addition a line now extended south to join the now dual-gauge siding serving the Wise Bros flour mill and grain shed. By 1940 a separate standard-gauge turntable had been added at the north-east end of the yard. The two platforms had been combined into a single 260m platform. By the following year, there was a transhipping platform with Shell's depot on the far east of the yard, and more sidings had been added to the north.
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| Current status: |
Large platform and station building remain. Station is partly restored but boarded up. Some remains of yard to the east. A turntable still exists, with a site dug for a second. No remains of transfer yard.
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