Ronny Webb photo. 4489 departing Tamrookum headed for Brisbane, March 83.
Tamrookum crossing loop (Peter Lee)
Ronny Webb photo's. 1) Inside Tamrookum staff hut. Can see the diagram & staff intruments L-R for Glenapp & Kagaru. Needed a key to operate the frames to allow entry & departure from loop. The train would stand at the home signal & wait for a green flag or light from the signalman at the frame to enter the set road. 2) 8023/8013 at Tamrookum on NL1 Brisbane Limited. Has passed the upper quadrant down home signal & can see the frame which signalman operated to allow entry/departure from loop. In March 1988.
Ronny Webb, photo's. More of RM 402 radio testing. After Kagaru, next stop was Tamrookum. 1) 4465/45?? in the loop waiting, you can see the small white clearance marker between both lines, where trains had to stop, not to foul other line. Only in loops with no signals for departures. Tamrookum & Greenbank were like this, as Kagaru & Glenapp were fully controlled with signals ex loops. 2-4) RM 402 at Tamrookum hut with Yeerongpilly driver Barry Rodda, plus at the controls & couple locals women having a look. 5) 4848 with Yeerongpilly driver Russell Smallman ready to alight, arriving in the loop. No date supplied.
Tamrookum station 1953 and 2020
The last paybus run to Qld where NSWGR employees were paid cash in an envelope. My Dad Ray Woodeson is in the middle at Tamrookum Station. (Suzi McGuiness)
Location of Tamrookum
Type : Loop/Station
Line : North Coast Line
Distance from Sydney : 909.162km
Opened : 25 November 1941
Closed : n/a (loop open) (station closed)
Status : In use
Name meaning : Aboriginal word meaning "place of boomerangs"
Notes: a 1570 metre crossing loop exists at the location. The Down side platform was 15.24 metres in length and opened on 21/6/1947
Tamrookum platform and signal hut, 15th January, 1994. (Chris Harrison)
Tamrookum waiting shed, 15th January, 1994. (Chris Harrison)
On 16/11/93 the late Cliff Olds photographed this goods train at Tamrookum QLD led by 44231-44240-44214.