Type : Station
Distance from Sydney : 833.798km
Opened : 25 June 1910
Closed : n/a
Status : In use
Name meaning : Named after Alexander MacKellar's cattle station in the area, Aboriginal word meaning "plain (bush) turkey"
Notes : The Up concrete platform is 75 metres in length and had a standard A3 prefabricated station building. Later a larger seven room building was constructed. The station opened with a 385 metre crossing loop. A goods shed, 5 ton yard crane and a 15.24 metre turntable were at the location. A 90kl water tank was located 29.85 metres from the Down end of the platform. At the time the station opened a residence for the SM was provided. In 1910, a siding was laid in for the Kyogle Co-operative Creamery (later Norco, 1926) and in 1920 a siding open for the Veneer Company, it closed on 18/11/1970. In 1925 a shed was provided for Rail Motor #1. The turntable was removed in 1974. 9/4/1984 - cattle loading ramp removed. 18/2/1985 - water tank removed.
A view of Kyogle station building looking north towards the Queensland border. (Jun-2003)
[Copyright: Michael Johnston]
Flood damage near Kyogle in April 1954. Approx 22,500 sleepers needed to be replaced.
First train to Kyogle, 1pm 29/9/1930 from Queensland (Northern Star)
Staff exchange variation at Kyogle mid 1980s.
(Phil Barker)
Kyogle, 1985 (Phil Barker)
Land slip 15 miles north of Kyogle, 1954. Note the use of bullock teams even at this late date.
Brisbane XPT to Sydney. (10/8/2019) (uncredited)
Kyogle, 2018 (uncredited)
Location of Kyogle (Six Maps)
Engineer James Hair (right side) and men on Kyogle line construction, 1927-1930 (copyright expired)
Kyogle - first train to Brisbane (postcard)
A postcard of Kyogle Railway Station 1910
Railway construction workers tent near Kyogle, late 1920s
8010+8041+42216+8050 on BM6 passing through Kyogle on 9 November 1996. (Steve McElroy)
Kyogle gang in 1946 (Wal Browning)
Joe Chamberlain Ganger Kyogle 1946 cleaned up and coloured (Wal Browning)
Arrival of the first train at Kyogle 26/1/1910
Opening day at Kyogle (Alan Howard)
6/10/1930 - special "children's train" from Kyogle to Brisbane
Kyogle Railway Station area, photo taken around 1987 from a helicopter I had the pleasure of having a ride in. Yard has changed now after being straight railed, doing away with the loop and goods shed siding. (Noel Steele)
This photo accompanies the shot I posted yesterday from Kyogle and illustrates the train in the loop waiting for the arrival from the north. The photo was taken in January 1990. I am glad I captured these images that feature the often overlooked bits of signalling infrastructure, such as point rodding and signal wires. The trains are interesting moments of history themselves, but so are the other bits and pieces that made up our formerly mechanical railway. Note the timber sleepers, which have also disappeared. A 'Jumbo' + 45 was not uncommon on the Coast at that time, but within a few years most of these locos would be withdrawn and such a combination consigned to history.
Kyogle, January 1994 (Chris Harrison)
Kyogle, January 1994 (Chris Harrison)
Kyogle, 1910
This evocative photo shows the arrival of the daily mixed at Kyogle in 1921. The train is headed by an A Class, guaranteeing no rapid rate of progress, and consists of a cattle wagon, some bogie F flat wagons, some D wagons, a louvred van for cream, an American suburban car for the passengers and an HG brake van. It is likely that the train has already arrived and set back for this posed photograph, since the very well-dressed gent behind the cream cans is carrying a portmanteau and overcoat, unless he was preparing for a long wait while the shunting took place before the return trip. On the far right is Norco's Kyogle's butter factory with a BRC refrigerator car standing at the loading dock to take the product to market. As can be seem, Kyogle did not rate an elaborate station, and the building shown serves the town still, in 2001.
Kyogle Railway Station area, photo taken around 1987 from a helicopter I had the pleasure of having a ride in. Yard has changed now after being straight railed, doing away with the loop and goods shed siding. (Noe; Steel)
This photo accompanies the shot I posted yesterday from Kyogle and illustrates the train in the loop waiting for the arrival from the north. The photo was taken in January 1990. I am glad I captured these images that feature the often overlooked bits of signalling infrastructure, such as point rodding and signal wires. The trains are interesting moments of history themselves, but so are the other bits and pieces that made up our formerly mechanical railway. Note the timber sleepers, which have also disappeared. A 'Jumbo' + 45 was not uncommon on the Coast at that time, but within a few years most of these locos would be withdrawn and such a combination consigned to history. (Ken Date)
I found this one today which might be of interest. Kyogle station in January 1990, a conference between the SM and the loco crew while another train waits in the loop. There were still a number of trains running in daylight in that area in those days, although the purpose of my visit was to get some shots of the Brisbane Limited before its demise a few weeks later, so I wasn't too worried about the other traffic, although it was a nice bonus. Note the baggage trolley, which has seen better days. (Ken Date)
Construction worker's tent near Kyogle, c1929
Kyogle, November 2022 (Alan Jenkinson)
Kyogle, October 1963 (NSW Government)
Various building plans, Kyogle
NSWRTM tour train at Kyogle, 5/10/1963 (John Ward)
Kyogle, 1929
Peter Neve :
An obvious requirement for the terminus of the Tweed Railway at Kyogle was a turntable so that locomotives could be turned for the trip back to Lismore.
With the opening of the Border Railway from Kyogle through to South Brisbane in September 1930, for all intents, the turntable fell out of use.
However, when I made to journey from Sydney to Brisbane just under 40 years later, the turntable was still there!
I'll leave it to the experts to tell the subsequent story.
The photo was taken from the window of my TAM sleeping car on No. 3 Brisbane Express on Friday morning, 11th April 1969. On my way to photographically record the demise of Brisbane trams that weekend.
Memories from scanned photos.
Construction gang, Kyogle, 1909 (State Archives)
Norco siding, Kyogle, 1982
Kyogle, July 1982 (State Archives)
8046+48xx 285 Kyogle C1986 (Leon Batman)
44222 with a down freight stands at the Kyogle home signal on Monday the 4.11.91.
Photo late Rodney James
44222 another view at Kyogle.
4.11.91
Photo late Rodney James