Type : Station
Line : North Coast Line
Distance from Sydney : 266.500km
Opened : Opened 5 February 1913
Closed : Stopping as required until 1996, short platform demolished in March 2008, staff withdrawn in 1982 (unattended from then on)
Status : Station closed, loop in use
Name meaning : Named after Stroud, Gloucestershire, UK
Notes : Opened witha 422 metre interlocked loop. Original platform length was 76.2 metres, later reduced to 48 metres then later demolished and replaced witha short timber platform. The original station building contained a store, general and ladies waiting room and was on the Down side of the line. A 5 tonne yard crane and goods shed were provided. A water tank supplied from the nearby Karuah River once existed on the site. 1944 provision of transit siding. 31/8/1970 water supply declared redundant and water facilities were removed on 13/1/1987. The site had four sidings - Gloucester District Co-operative Butter Company, Bowthorpe Butter Company, Simsville and Allen Taylor and Co, all were removed by 1980. Currently there is a 1884 metre Up side passing loop, a short 225 metre siding is contained within the loop.
Location of Stroud Road station (Six Maps)
Stroud Road was a railway station on the North Coast railway line in New South Wales, Australia. It was originally opened in 1913 to serve the town of Stroud, which was some distance away, as this was as near as the railway could get at an affordable cost. Stroud Road eventually grew into a small town in its own right. The station was demolished some time after this shot was taken in 1985.
The first train stops at Stroud Road Station on the opening of the North Coast line between Dungog and Taree on February 4, 1913
Stroud Road - undated. (copyright expired)
Arrival of the first train at Stroud Road on 4th Feb, 1913 - no-one looks particularly happy about it!
The Rail Motor Society's No 7 and 1 cars stopped at the short platform at Stroud Road. (5-May-2002)
[Copyright: Peter Ware]
Stroud Road: 23 September 1985. (Phillip Vergison)
The spartan platform from the track side. (16-Mar-2006)
[Copyright: Michael Johnston]
6422 goods train at Stroud Road, The station was on the opposite side of the track of the CTC hut in the distance. (Stephen Joseph Miller)
STROUD ROAD:
Credit to Gloucester Advocate for the 2 pics that I have used. The 1 with the buildings is where my grandfather grew up.
(Desmond Fittock)
STROUD HILL TUNNEL. NORTH END. G. KELLY. Photo. [1912] (UON)
Stroud Road, 1961 (lindsaybridge, flickr)
Stroud Road, October 2020, Stephen Joseph Miller
Looking North to Stroud Road railway station on left about 1927
A view from the cab of NT36, the Up "Grafton XPT" as it approaches the crossing loop at Stroud Road while Pacific National train with locos, NR-112,121 and 60 wait for its passing. 1-7pm on 11-8-2004. (Graeme Kirby)
A view from the cab o NT-36, the Up "Grafton XPT" as it approaches the crossing loop at Stroud Road while Pacific National train with locos, NR-112,121 and 60 wait for its passing. 1-7pm on 11-8-2004. (Graeme Kirkby)
Looking North to Stroud Road railway station on left about 1927
Stroud Road 1982 (Darrell Edwards)
A view from NT-26, Up "Grafton XPT" at Stroud Road as it approaches the Karuah river bridge, on 15-12-1993.
Stroud Road, looking south, 16 Sept. 1981 (Adrian Compton)
View from NT-25, the "Grafton XPT" passing through Stroud Road on 8-4-2003. At left is the out-of-use platform, while at right is an "Interail" ballast train having a loco crew change, locos, 42301, 42107 and 42105. A Speno rail grinder is in the Per-way siding. (Graeme Kirkby)
Stroud Road, mid 80s (Steven Neil)
Stroud Road, late 1937 (Government Printing Office)
Stroud Road, 4/5/1986
Stroud Road, undated, showing the final truncated platform
R2 Up Way and Works train crosses a Down goods at Stroud Road, 2/8/1969 (John Ward)
Stroud Road, 1/5/1982 (State Archives)
Vintage train to Kempsey at Stroud Road, 24/11/1967 (State Archives)
Stroud Road, 1/5/1982 (State Archives)
Stroud Road track diagram pre CTC, note the Pacific Highway used to pass thru Stroud Road & the use of white out for yard rationalisation. (Greg Riddel)
Stroud Road goods shed circa 1970's showing both sidings intact unlike the track diagram.
Photo courtesy Phil Calvert collection
NR91, NR36 & NR18 on 4BM4 passing through Stroud Road 07:38 27 Feb 2025 (Barry Trudgett)
The Vintage Train waits in the refuge loop at Stroud Road for the North Coast Daylight Express (hauled by 4305) to pass, on its journey from Grafton to Sydney. The Vintage Train was headed to Kempsey to take part in celebrations marking the 50th anniversary of the arrival of the railway in Kempsey.
Photographed by Graham Palmer, November 1967.
View from NT-25, "Grafton XPT" crossing the viaduct that leads onto the Karuah river steel truss bridge, approaching Stroud Road. Loco 8236 can be seen in the Loop with a local goods train. Saturday, 2-9-2000. (Graeme Kirkby)