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Type : Station
Line : Fingal Line
Distance from Conara Junction : 075.200
Location : -41.579620, 148.179603
Opened : 29 June 1886
Closed : See notes
Status : Reused
Name meaning : Unknown
Notes : Last railcar 26 July 1957, last goods train 29 Oct 1985. Location had  Watering facilities, crossing loop, loco servicing facilities, turntable, sheep and cattle race, stock pens, sand house (removed to Conara), ash pit, coal stage, a goods shed and a seperate loading ramp. Water tower and some facilities still remain.

Type : Siding
Line : Fingal Line
Distance from Conara Junction : 074.400
Location : -41.578236, 148.169870
Opened : Circa 1925
Closed : Unknown
Status : Closed
Name meaning : After the colliery of the same name
Notes :

Type : Siding
Line : Fingal Line
Distance from Conara Junction : 071.500km (end of siding)
Location : -41.573361, 148.138495
Opened : October 1886
Closed : 1963
Status : Closed
Name meaning : After the colliery of the same name
Notes : 300 metre dead end siding (with other sidings) off the main line at Cullenswood

Type : Station
Line : Fingal Line
Distance from Conara Junction : 071.200km
Location : -41.574766, 148.133323
Opened : 29 June 1886
Closed : Circa 1982
Status : Closed
Name meaning : Robert Vincent Legge owned the property of the same name, he named it after the family home in Ireland.
Notes : Location had a crossing loop, triangle (wye), siding and watering facilities. The formation of one leg of the triangle still remains as does remains of the former yard and the platform. This was a manned station with an SM and lad porter.

Type : Station
Line : Fingal Line
Distance from Conara Junction : 067.900km
Location : -41.575769, 148.094748
Opened : 29 June 1886
Closed : Circa 1982
Status : Closed
Name meaning : After the location
Notes : Location had a crossing loop (lifted prior to 1968) and a dead end siding that serviced stock loading facilities. The fairly substantial station building was replaced with a simpler waiting shed. Original station had a seperate urinal.

Type : Siding
Line : Fingal Line
Distance from Conara Junction : 065.900km
Location : -41.576094, 148.079443
Opened : Circa 1920, closed circa 1922, re-opened 1952
Closed : Circa 1954
Status : Closed
Name meaning : After the company that operated there
Notes : A siding that serviced the Silkstone Syndicate Coal Mine. The area known as the Silkstone mine has never produced any great quantity of coal, although periodic prospecting has been carried out since the 1920s. In 1920, a pre-existing small pit (mine) was leased to Messrs Meredith and Whittle, who obtained a bulk sample the coal but did little development work. Hills et al. (1922) reported that the Silkstone workings comprised three tunnels of a prospecting nature on one seam; one tunnel 76 m long on a lower seam (probably L2); and a
few prospecting adits on an upper seam (probably Ll). No coal appears to have been mined, apart from the 140 t
removed in 1920, until work recommenced in 1950. Elliston (1951) reported that seven tonnes of coal were being
produced per day from one adit; a second adit on a lower scam was accessible but was not in use. Production ceased in 1951 after 620 t had been mined. The mine ceased operating mainly because of problems of water accumulating in the adit.

Type : Platform
Line : Fingal Line
Distance from Conara Junction : 064.300km
Location : -41.580227, 148.065635
Opened : 1888
Closed : 1907
Status : Closed
Name meaning : Probably after the creekm of the same name
Notes :

Type : Siding (later junction)
Line : Murwillumbah Branch
Distance from Sydney : 856.223km
Location :
Opened : 23rd April 1925
Closed :
Status : Closed
Name meaning : N/A
Notes :  A siding in order to facilitate the construction of the new line from Booyong to Ballina. Initially under control of Bexhill, later Booyong. See Booyong Junction.

Type : Station
Line : Fingal Line
Distance from Conara Junction : 062.300km
Location : -41.593858, 148.046696
Opened : 1899
Closed : 1982
Status : Closed
Name meaning : After the property of the same name
Notes : Location had a waiting room (on a platform on the main line), a dead end siding with a  goods shed and sheep race. Location was a flag station.

Type : Platform
Line : Fingal Line
Distance from Conara Junction : 060.300km
Location : -41.604284, 148.022127
Opened : Circa 1928
Closed : Circa 1962
Status : Closed
Name meaning : Unknown
Notes : A platform likely associated with a private property

Type : Siding
Line : Fingal Line
Distance from Conara Junction : 055.900km
Location : -41.629025, 147.980546
Opened : Unknown (colliery siding 1956)
Closed : Unknown
Status : Closed
Name meaning : After the Duncan Colliery
Notes : A railway siding on the Fingal Line, 2 Km. east of the Fingal
Township. A small spur line about .75km long branched off the line at Duncan and finished beside the Esk Highway, later this was a triangle.

Type : Loop
Line : Fingal Line
Distance from Conara Junction : 041.900km
Location : -41.694462, 147.861885
Opened : Circa 1956
Closed : Circa 1970
Status : Closed
Name meaning : After the nearby property of the same name
Notes :

Type : Siding
Line : Fingal Line
Distance from Conara Junction : 055.600km
Location : -41.626454, 147.970804
Opened : Circa 1921 as Williams Siding
Closed : Unknown
Status : Closed
Name meaning : An historic property 2 Km. north of Fingal. It is situated on the banks of the South Esk River just before the junction with the Break O'Day River. The property was a grant to William Talbot in the early 1820's and he named it after Malahide Castle" in Dublin, Ireland where his family had lived since the 12th century.
Notes : (per Michael Dix) Williams Siding (also known as Fingal Coal siding) was put in around 1920 to serve a nearby coal mine. The initial mining venture was fairly shortlived and the proposed branch line from Williams Siding to the mine never eventuated. Two later mines in the area shipped their coal through Fingal. Production from both mines increased rapidly after the Second
World War, and the Fingal Coal Company re-opened the old William's Siding
in 1947-48, the siding being named Malahide. Production at the Fingal Mine
ceased in 1965 and Malahide Siding was officially closed on 17.6.1966. It was later reopened to load woodchip logs.

Type : Station
Line : Fingal Line
Distance from Conara Junction : 054.100km
Location : -41.63826241236535, 147.96549297710274
Opened : 29 June 1886
Closed : 1997
Status : Re-used
Name meaning : Unknown, James Grant who arrived in the district in 1821 named it.
Notes : Location had a loop siding/crossing loop (431'), dead end siding that served stock pens, a loading ramp, goods shed on a 108' loop siding on the Down side of the station. The substantial station still exists and has been renovated.

Type : Siding
Line : Fingal Line
Distance from Conara Junction : 052.70km
Location : -41.644941, 147.955547
Opened : Circa 1987
Closed : Circa 1996
Status : Closed
Name meaning :
Notes :

Type : Station
Line : Fingal Line
Distance from Conara Junction : 047.30km
Location : -41.669010, 147.903347
Opened : 29 June 1886
Closed : 1978
Status : Closed
Name meaning : It was a land grant made to Mr. James Grant in 1824; he built and named it after his father's birthplace in Ireland.
Notes : Location had a 208' 2" loop siding. Station shelter exists, but has been set back from the line. Location had a sheep race.

Type : Station
Line : Fingal Line
Distance from Conara Junction : 038.600km
Location : -41.719254, 147.833185
Opened : 29 June 1896
Closed : 1981
Status : Closed
Name meaning : Named after a pastoral property 12km east of Avoca.
Notes : Location had a loop siding, stock loading facilities, repairers cottage, post office and watering facilities (on the main line opposite the loop). Platform held a basic shelter and a urinal off-platform.

Type : Siding
Line : Fingal Line
Distance from Conara Junction : 031.900km
Location : -41.756062, 147.762205
Opened : 1928
Closed : Circa 1931
Status : Closed
Name meaning : Unknown
Notes : Also called Henbury Siding. This had a 192' 3" dead end siding accessed from the Up side of the main line that services a 4' 6" high loading ramp for sand.

Type : Siding
Line : Fingal Line
Distance from Conara Junction : 027.200km
Location : -41.778553, 147.724268
Opened : Unknown
Closed : 1998
Status : Closed
Name meaning : Unknown
Notes : Siding was located 300 metres to the Down side of Avoca station

Type : Station
Line : Fingal Line
Distance from Conara Junction : 026.900km
Location : -41.779229, 147.720926
Opened : Unknown
Closed : 29 June 1886
Status : Closed
Name meaning : John Helder Wedge wrote in his diary that in 1833 he planned and
named the township of Avoca.
Notes : Location had a crossing loop, carriage dock, goods shed and cattle yard. Station master residence. First station building was washed away in floods in April 1929.