Type : Station
Line : Murwillumbah Branch
Distance from Sydney : 818.956km
Opened : 1906
Closed : 30 June 1975 (passenger services ceased in 1973)
Status : Closed
Name meaning : Said to be named after a landholder's (R B Dawson) property. There are several location in England that use the name and there it means "a clearing overgrown with bent-grass".
Notes : 75.5m platform on the Down side as built, later reduced to 31.6m. Yards had sheep and cattle races and a 5 tonne crane and an Up side siding which opened on 19th September 1919 and closed on 28th June 1975 (two days before the station). Original layout had a Down side loop siding with the original station some 70 metres Down from the siding.
Location of the one-time platform at Bentley (Google Maps)
Location of Bentley (Six Maps)
Bentley station ((c) Helen Trustum)
Gold Coast Motorail from Sydney on its last journey through Bentley (Helen Trustum)
Railway line at Bentley (Helen Trustum)
Bentley location (Hi Res) (per 1909 diagram)
Bentley, undated (SRA Archives)
Bentley, undated (SRA Archives), platform was on the left immediately past the level crossing.
Post 1919
1919 proposed changes at Bentley
1909 addition of the loop siding.
Construction of Bungabbee Creek #1 bridge, Bentley station site is on the other side of the cutting. (State Archives)
738/638 + Van at Bentley on 18 Up Pass from Murwillumbah to Casino for connection to the Up Brisbane Express on 14th November 1970 (George Stevens)
Bentley (Ian Kilmartin)