Type : Station
Line : North Coast Line
Distance from Sydney : 600.668km
Opened : 13 July 1925
Closed : 18/11/1989, then re-opened
Status : In use
Name meaning : After Mr Oswald C Sawtell for whom the platform was built
Notes : A 100 foot dead end siding on the up side of the line was brought into service on 18/03/1940, the siding could hold 4 four wheel trucks, it was removed on 8/11/1976. The original Up timber platform was 76.2 metres long with timber platform building. The new station is similar to Eungai and Urunga. 1928 - toilets installed. 1957 - electric lighting installed. 1959 - waiting room extended.
Sawtell station on the North Coast on 17 December 1982. Like its neighbour Urunga it was also demolished in the early 1990s and replaced with a small unattended modern structure. (Peter Burr)
Sawtell (undated) (Newcastle Rediscovered
Sawtell, circa 1940
The very spartan shelter at the current station
Location of Sawtell station (Six Maps)
NT33 at Sawtell, 24/9/22 (Christopher Dunkerley)
N11 - North Coast Mail - at Sawtell 14/11/1984 (Neil Munro)
N11 - North Coast Mail - at Sawtell 1/6/1983 (Neil Munro)
Way and Works carriage sits in the 100' siding at Sawtell in May 1972 (Records NSW)
Sawtell, Colin Sutton (1989)
Titled "Bricks to build the new hotel" - Sawtell station, 1930 (Coffs Collection)
Swatell, undated (probably late 70s, early 80s) (Peter Leonard)
Sawtell, late 60s (Adrian Swift)
Undated image of Sawtell (Lynda Knight) (Coffs Local History - Remember When)