Type : Station
Distance from Sydney : 231.70km
Opened : Opened 14 August 1911, closed on 27 November 1985, re-opened.
Closed : n/a
Status : In use
Name meaning : Aboriginal word meaning "damp gully"
Notes : The original down side platform was 76.2 metres and a had a waiting room, ladies waiting room and store. The new platform is remarkable due to very intricate ramp that is far larger than the platform itself. 1914 - residence for night officer built. 14/5/1914 central interlocked crossing loop installed. 15/5/1915 station master's residence built. 12/10/80 goods shed removed. May 1986 SM residence demolished.
Wallarobba yard layout, 1914
Location of Wallarobba tunnel (Six Maps)
Location of Wallarobba station (Six Maps)
Tunnel construction at Wallarobba (copyright expired)
Wallarobba - level crossing showing gatekeeper's cottage - undated
Wallarobba in 1982 (Geoff Allcock)
Wallarobba in Oct 2018 (T E Colley)
Wallarobba (undated, uncredited)
4432 Southbound freight, Wallarobba, NSW. May 13, 1977 (dunedoo)
Wallarobba (undated) (Garry Simmonds)
Looking south to Wallarobba (undated) (Garry Simmonds)
Wallarobba, 2019, Rob Rouse
Wallarobba tunnel, shortly after completion.
View from the cab of NT-35, "Grafton XPT" in the crossing loop at Wallarobba as a 620 class rail-car train from Dungog approaches on a service to Newcastle. 11-8-2005. (Graeme Kirkby)
Wallarobba, 1991 (Brad Peadon)
View from the cab of NT-35, "Grafton XPT" in the crossing loop at Wallarobba as a 620 class rail-car train from Dungog approaches on a service to Newcastle. 11-8-2005. (Graeme Kirkby)
View from the cab of NT-36, the "Grafton XPT" in the crossing loop at Bulliac as NT-33, the Down "Casino XPT" approaches. 9-7-2005. (Graeme Kirkby)
Gary Niness Collection.
5912 - 5902 Wallarobba up train, Dec 1968. Image by Laurier Williams. RTM postcard collection number RTM 11.
Old gatekeeper's location at Wallarobba (Greg Northey)
The station at Wallarobba, NSW, snapped from a passing train, November 1 1984.
Wallarobba (between 1968 & 1970) (State Archives)
Wallarobba (between 1968 & 1970) (State Archives)
Wallarobba, 25/7/94
Wallarobba, 23/11/1979
Wallarobba (undated)
A view from the North bound "Grafton XPT" in the Loop at Wallarobba as an Up local service from Dungog approaches, 3-13pm on Thursday, 11-8-2005. (Graeme Kirkby)
Wallarobba - station arragements (NSWGR archives)
3386 & 3510 at Wallarobba, 3/4/1965 (Weston Langford Collection)
North Coast Daylight Express at Wallarobba, 1/5/1982 (State Archives)
Wallarobba, 1st May, 1982 (State Archives)
A view from NT-36, the Up "Grafton XPT" approaching Wallarobba tunnel on Monday, 1-2-2010. (Graeme Kirkby)