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Title: Tyumba
Post by: admin on April 18, 2021, 11:16:42 AM

Type : Station
Line : Ballina branch
Distance from Sydney : 862.145km
Opened : 25 August 1930
Closed : 12 January 1949
Status : Closed
Name meaning : Probably an Aboriginal word
Notes: Tyumba had a 30 metre platform and a short goods loop that could hold 5 S trucks. A pig race was located on the main line. Along with Teven and Ballina it opened with the line.

Title: Re: Tyumba
Post by: admin on April 18, 2021, 11:17:05 AM

Ian Kirkland at Tyumba station on the old Ballina Railway line. Today it is in the middle of a macadamia plantation.

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Post by: admin on April 18, 2021, 11:17:29 AM

Station name board

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Post by: admin on April 18, 2021, 11:17:58 AM

SMH 4/4/51 - Tender for work at the station site of Tyumba on the old Ballina line.

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Post by: admin on April 18, 2021, 11:18:25 AM

Location of Tyumba station on the Ballina branch , the building still exists but has been moved on the property.

(Image: Six Maps)

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Post by: admin on April 18, 2021, 11:21:40 AM

Tyumba Railway Station on the Ballina branch - 3 shots taken 1987 and a recent photo of it now restored and used on a Macadamia farm. (Bryan Vanderstelt)

Title: Re: Tyumba
Post by: admin on April 18, 2021, 01:30:09 PM

Construction plans - Tyumba

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Post by: admin on April 18, 2021, 01:33:39 PM

Tyumba - yard layout, 1942

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Post by: admin on May 30, 2021, 07:57:13 AM

Tyumba, probably early 80s

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Post by: admin on February 13, 2022, 01:14:07 PM

Tyumba toilet block, 2018 (Uniquely North Coast)

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Post by: admin on April 18, 2024, 03:13:41 PM

1942 diagram

Stations of the North Coast Line

North Coast Branch Lines => Ballina Branch => Topic started by: admin on April 18, 2021, 11:16:42 AM