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Title: Crabbes Creek
Post by: admin on February 13, 2022, 10:52:04 AM

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 : 28th June 1975
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.

Title: Re: Crabbes Creek
Post by: admin on February 13, 2022, 10:55:16 AM

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)

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Post by: admin on October 14, 2022, 11:52:54 AM

Crabbes Creek, early 1900s (Tweed Museum)

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Post by: admin on October 14, 2022, 11:53:18 AM

Location of Crabbes Creek station (Six Maps)

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Post by: admin on October 14, 2022, 11:55:00 AM

Crabbes Creek, 1968

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Post by: admin on October 14, 2022, 12:04:24 PM

Crabbes Creek area, 2008 (no copyright restrictions)

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Post by: admin on October 14, 2022, 12:09:59 PM

Burringbar #2 bridge (Crabbes Creek) (1896) (State Archives)

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Post by: admin on October 14, 2022, 12:11:47 PM

Crabbes Creek, 14/06/1910 (State Archives)

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Post by: admin on January 10, 2023, 11:19:45 AM

Crabbes Creek (undated)

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Post by: admin on January 10, 2023, 11:20:53 AM

Simplex cane engine at Crabbes Creek, 1959

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Post by: admin on February 14, 2023, 07:33:43 AM

Crabbes Creek, September 1968

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Post by: admin on February 14, 2023, 08:39:07 AM

Loading cane at Crabbes Creek (undated, uncredited, colourised B&W image)

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Post by: admin on April 22, 2023, 07:50:38 AM

Undated shot of Crabbes Creek (McCarthy Collection)

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Post by: admin on January 20, 2024, 08:59:12 AM

Crabbes Creek, early 1900s

Title: Re: Crabbes Creek
Post by: admin on June 09, 2024, 08:02:15 AM

Elevated view of Crabbe's Creek platform and cane transfer-loading facility - photographed by Peter Neve on 26.11.1974.

Title: Re: Crabbes Creek
Post by: admin on June 09, 2024, 08:02:37 AM

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.

Stations of the North Coast Line

Murwillumbah Line (later Branch) => Anderson's Siding to Condong => Topic started by: admin on February 13, 2022, 10:52:04 AM