Type : Station
Line : Murwillumbah Branch
Distance from Sydney : 838.083km
Opened : 1907
Closed : 30 June 1974 (passenger services had ceased earlier), siding still in use until September 1989 and removed May 1992.
Status : Closed
Name meaning : Named after the Isle of Lismore in Argyleshire, Hebrides
Notes : Up side platform was 76.2 metres long, construction authorised 1/2/1906 although not constructed until 15/2/1911. Down side loop siding with loading bank. Cattle and pig yards added 7/8/1913. Siding removed 13/9/1989. The Up side platform was located at the Lismore end of the yards mostly outside of the siding area. The siding was used in later years for cement and could hold six cement trucks, it was renamed from North Lismore Stock Siding to North Lismore Cement Siding in September 1986.
North Lismore station and floods, 1921 (National Museum of Australia)
Location of North Lismore station (Six Maps)
North Lismore station (left of photo) in 1929
North Lismore - flooding, 1921 - the station platform is on the left (Robertson's sign) (Braeh Brimson)
Grain unoading near North Lismore in the 1960s.
(Dean Cording)
1985 diagram
1941 diagram