Type : Station
Line : North Coast Line
Distance from Sydney : 552.400km
Opened : 1 July 1919
Closed : n/a
Status : In use
Name meaning : After two pioneers in the district; Angus Mackay and MacInally. When asked by the surveyor to give it a name they called it Macksville, short for Mac's Village
Notes : Opened with an interlocked loop 413 metres in length. The original Up side platform was 137.16 metres in length, this was later increased to 181 metres. The first station building was constructed in timber and was renewed (probably in 1923) in concrete. A goods shed and 3 tonne crane were provided and the coal stage and turntable from Wauchope was relocated to here. At the time this was the terminus for the line from the south for around four years so it is likely there was a watering facility drawn from the nearby Nambucca River. 11/9/1920 - pig trucking yards provided. 4/12/1934 - central interlocked loop provided. The Banans Growers Federatyion had 12.1 metre platform installed towards the end of 1942. The COR siding was added on 28/4/1957 and renamed to BP Siding 1/3/1958.
North Coast railway town of Macksville for auction sale at Macksville on day of opening of extension of the North Coast Railway Line from Kempsey to Macksville by C.S. Cliff, auctioneer, Kempsey, in conjunction with R.J. Bear, auctioneer, Macksville (SLNSW)
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Macksville, 1976. 4538 leads an up train. (Howard Armstrong)
Macksville, undated
Macksville Station, opened 1919, still in use (News Ltd)
Casino XPT at Macksville. 3pm, 26th December 2019 (Lance Lyon)
Macksville station, 1923 (postcard, SLNSW)
Construction of the railway bridge at Macksville, 1919 (Nambucca and Bellinger News)
Cutting #95 near Macksville 13/3/1917 Government Printing Office
Macksville, undated, Greg Lee
About 400 people crowded at the platform to welcome the first passenger train into Macksville, NSW on July 1, 1919. (ABC)
Macksville (undated, ABC)
Location of Macksville station (Six Maps)
North Coast railway town of Macksville for auction sale at Macksville on day of opening of extension of the North Coast Railway Line from Kempsey to Macksville by C.S. Cliff, auctioneer, Kempsey, in conjunction with R.J. Bear, auctioneer, Macksville (SLNSW)
Macksville Railway Station.
30/06/2019.
100 years of rail (Brian Leedham)
I noticed this recently on maps Lance.. this is in the vicinity of where the ash pit was at Macksville (David McGrath)
Macksville in the early 20s
First XPT to Macksville, September 1981
Construction of Macksville yards, March 1917 (SLNSW)
Macksville railway bridge construction, western abutment, 1921
Tilly Willy bridge, Macksville (undated)
Casino XPT at Macksville. 3pm 26/12/2019 (Lance Lyon)
It appears a temp platform was built north of Macksville owing to flooding... sorry about quality
Macksville Station early 2000 (Bob Richardson)
The days of parcels traffic by Mail Trains is almost finished. Depicted here, is the unloading of a few items at Macksville from the North Coast Mail mid 1980's (Bruce Irwin)
Macksville station - undated
Macksville, N292 goods 31/10/1976 (Neil Munro)
Macksville, 1927
Macksville, 1919
Macksville, 1919 (State Archives)
NT36 XPT from Grafton departs Macksville 8.35am Wed 30 Nov 2011. (Alan Graham)
Macksville Station Notes:
Long demolished stockyards, the Thornley lever operates the points to the BGF siding & the 20ft container is for the Wirrimbi meat works meat meal traffic which has been described elsewhere in this group.
Circa 1988.
Greg Riddel.
4431 Macksville 275 10-04-1987 (Leon Batman)
Macksville (1982, Greg Lee)
4479 in the loop at Macksville 19881124 (Lindsay Lucas)
Macksville station with NQEX 60159 in the foreground.
12-6-93
Photo John Barrett
NL 81 with 4520 4490 4306 passes Macksville Station on a rainy Friday.
10/4/98 (Greg Riddel)