Type : Station
Line : Murwillumbah Branch
Distance from Sydney : 824.350km
Opened : December 1904
Closed : 19 February 1972
Status : Closed
Name meaning : An adjacent property was named Fernhill but this was the same as Hurlstone Park's then naming so it was changed to Fernside.
Notes : The Up side platform was 51.2 metres in length, later reduced to 15.24 metres. A 10' x 8' cream shed was on the platform.
Notes:
Platform and cream shed added in 1912. It was used as a loading platform for vegetables and bananas until 1933 when goods loading was relocated to Tuncester for farmers in the area. By 1944 fruit was again being loaded at the station
Details of railway cottage at Fernside
Fernside (Hi Res)
Fernside, 1942 diagram.