Type : Station
Line : Murwillumbah Branch
Distance from Sydney : 836.026km
Opened : 15 May 1894
Closed : 16 May 2004
Status : Closed
Name meaning : Named after the Isle of Lismore in Argyleshire, Hebrides
Notes : Original Down side platform was 124.6 metres long, later increased to 190 metres.
Lismore Railway Wharf Postcard
Lismore Railway Station Postcard
7th Jan 1893 Lismore Railway Bridge over Leycester Creek
1891 Lismore Railway – band and procession after the turning of the first sod (Richmond Valley Historical Society)
Lismore station (John Houldsworth)
Lismore frame 1989 (Graeme Skeet)
Lismore (Cheech Cat)
Lismore butter factory and sidiing (1905, SLNSW)
Lismore station on opening day
Wirth's Brothers Circus elephant detraining in Lismore, NSW, c1925
Location of Lismore station (Six Maps)
Lismore Station in April 1996 Dept Environment & Heritage
Lismore Station, 1906, (Richmond Valley Historical Society)
Lismore station, taken around the time it opened. The low level platform is very noticeable, a hallmark of the cheaply constructed pioneer lines. (SRA Archives)
Caption for this photo on p31 of Ian Dunn's "Byways of Steam 18":
'A greater crowd had gathered for the departure of the official train, headed again by C124. The weather, it would seem, was not clement, judging by the turn-out of umbrellas. After the gentry departed, a second train was provided for the populace at large hauled, of necessity, by an A class.'
C class 4-4-0 C124 (Beyer Peacock builder's number 1772 of 1878 and later renumbered 1213 of the Z12 class in 1924), which hauled the opening train from Mullumbimby to Lismore and the return shown in the above photo, was the only "passenger" locomotive allocated to the original line. 1213 was withdrawn in 1930 and cut up in 1937. The three other locomotives initially allocated to the line were all A class 0-6-0 (later Z19 class) and included A97 which was renumbered as 1905 and was preserved as the first locomotive to cross the Sydney Harbour Bridge.
Lismore station. 17/Sept/2021 (John Wotherspoon)
Lismore railway land leases
Lismore Station August 2022 (Geoff Bensley)
Lismore Station August 2022 (Geoff Bensley)
Lismore, April 1969 (John Shields)
Lismore 17/Sept/2021 (John Wotherspoon)
Caption from Ian Dunn's "Byways of Steam 18":
A Belpaire-boilered 19 class waits on the western outskirts of Lismore with a substantial train of logs from the Kyogle line Apart from the leading four-plank D wagon and a covered van, the entire load is bogie F wagons, all but one loaded with six large sawn lengths of log. A lone bogie F conveys sawn timber, and the ensemble is trailed by an HG brake van. The variety in the height of the side rails on the F wagons is interesting, some having been built as such, others having been cut down from bogie G wagons.
Lismore yards, 2019 (uncredited)
Lismore NSW Railway Wharves
Lismore, undated but likely near the time it opened.
Two shots of the Railway Wharf - Lismore, and a third showing the North Coast Mail approaching Lismore.
Lismore railway land leases
Union Street level crossing, Lismore (undated, State Archives)
Lismore, 13/08/1906 - visit of the Governor of NSW
3362 on the No. 11 North Coast Mail at Lismore, 17/9/1936 (State Archives)
Lismore, 1905, postcard
The fernhouse and dining room at Lismore Loco, 1926
Lismore, 1929
Railway & Tramway Institute Lismore Branch - Billiard Room under construction and completed in 1919
Lismore 24/2/2023 (Tony Egan)
Unloading the first railway cars for Tweed railway (as it was called then) at Lismore in 1894.
Evan Rees states :
This car would be one of the six which previously formed Set 8, which was broken up and converted to loose cars for working the Lismore line in early 1894, being delivered there in March 1894.
The car numbers concerned were FA246, FA247, FA248, BB249, BB250 and BB251.
FA246 and BB249-251 were fitted with a partition dividing the car into two saloons and were recoded as CA composite cars. CA246 and 251 retained their guard's compartments, and so sat a total of 52, instead of the 60 seated in the other four cars.
Lismore, undated
Loco depot at Lismore
Lismore, undated (State Archives)
15/5/1894 - opening day at Lismore (State Archives)
Lismore -photo taken prior to opening (State Archives)
Lismore, undated (State Archives)
Vintage train at Lismore, 24/9/1970 (State Archives)
Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser NSW , Saturday 3 July 1897, page 19. Lismore Railway station.
Lismore engine shed
Layout of Lismore
Loco & carriage sheds at Lismore (undated, SRA Archives, Records NSW)
Gents toilets at Lismore, July 1997 (SRA)
10.03.1995: Lismore - XP 2000 at the Murwillumbah end. (Anthony McIlwain)
10.03.1995: Lismore - SJ 2520 at Sydney end. The train straddles the points to the loop for clearance. (Anthony McIlwain)
The western end of Lismore railway station today looking towards Union St. crossing. (Ian Kilmartin)
Lismore, 1906 (postcard)
4413 Lismore 01/10/1982
(Brad Coulter)
Norco factory at Lismore, early 1900s.