Type : Station
Line : Murwillumbah Branch
Distance from Sydney : 911.073km
Opened : 24 December 1894 as Mooball (1st site) - changed to Crabbes Creek January 1895.
Closed : 30 June 1974
Status : Closed
Name meaning : Likely after a local settler as the name is taken from the creek nearby.
Notes : The Down platform was 67 metres long. Crabbe's Creek's most significant ongoing feature was its C.S.R. (Colonial Sugar Refining Company) Sugar Cane Siding, which was extended and reconfigured multiple times between 1923 and 1939, reflecting an active local sugar cane industry. The station also controlled Henderson's Banana Platform (opened 1935, between Crabbe's Creek and Yelgun) until administrative control passed to Billinudgel in 1943. Opened 24 December 1894 as Mooball (the original/first site of that name); renamed Crabbe's Creek in January 1895. 3rd May 1923, sugar cane siding extended by 300'.17th September 1935, sugar cane siding extended by 158' on the Up end. Wn 39/1935 - name changed to "Crabbe's Creek Goods Siding" (altered shortly thereafter back to "Crabbe's Creek"). 1964 - Sheep race deleted. WN 40/1973 lists the station for deletion, but retained at this point. 17 April 1974 - cane siding abolished. Crabbe's Creek closed per WN 29/1974. All particulars deleted 28th June 1975 (WN 26/1975).
Site of the old Crabbes Creek railway station. Old siding and cement slabs what's left of the cane transfer point. The rest lost in the bush or built over by the motor way. (John Grocott)
Crabbes Creek, early 1900s (Tweed Museum)
Location of Crabbes Creek station (Six Maps)
Crabbes Creek, 1968
Crabbes Creek area, 2008 (no copyright restrictions)
Burringbar #2 bridge (Crabbes Creek) (1896) (State Archives)
Crabbes Creek, 14/06/1910 (State Archives)
Crabbes Creek (undated)
Simplex cane engine at Crabbes Creek, 1959
Crabbes Creek, September 1968
Loading cane at Crabbes Creek (undated, uncredited, colourised B&W image)
Undated shot of Crabbes Creek (McCarthy Collection)
Crabbes Creek, early 1900s
Elevated view of Crabbe's Creek platform and cane transfer-loading facility - photographed by Peter Neve on 26.11.1974.
Close-up of Crabbe's Creek "out-off" shed, with 4428 passing on the up Gold Coast MotoRail Express. Photo by Peter Neve, taken 26/11/1974.