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#11

Fingal Line / Duncan

Last post by admin - April 11, 2026, 07:12:53 AM

Type : Siding
Line : Fingal Line
Distance from Conara Junction : 055.900km
Location : -41.629025, 147.980546
Opened : Unknown (colliery siding 1956)
Closed : Unknown
Status : Closed
Name meaning : After the Duncan Colliery
Notes : A railway siding on the Fingal Line, 2 Km. east of the Fingal
Township. A small spur line about .75km long branched off the line at Duncan and finished beside the Esk Highway, later this was a triangle.

#12

Fingal Line / Re: Rostrevor Loop

Last post by admin - April 10, 2026, 07:19:18 AM

Location (LISTmap)

#13

Fingal Line / Rostrevor Loop

Last post by admin - April 10, 2026, 07:19:03 AM

Type : Loop
Line : Fingal Line
Distance from Conara Junction : 041.900km
Location : -41.694462, 147.861885
Opened : Circa 1956
Closed : Circa 1970
Status : Closed
Name meaning : After the nearby property of the same name
Notes :

#14

Fingal Line / Re: Malahide Siding

Last post by admin - April 10, 2026, 07:08:50 AM

Williams Siding diagram (NAA)

#15

Coffs Harbour to Grafton / Re: Coffs Harbour Fruit Platfo...

Last post by admin - April 10, 2026, 06:57:10 AM

Undated image, Bartlett's banana platform is just behind the engine.

#16

Coffs Harbour to Grafton / Re: Coffs Harbour Fruit Platfo...

Last post by admin - April 10, 2026, 06:56:18 AM

Staff post at Bartlett's

#17

Shell Siding to Wauchope / Re: Johns River

Last post by admin - March 30, 2026, 06:51:36 AM

Scanned from a slide taken 65 years ago this month by my father, Les Trudgett who was a "Safe Working Porter" at Johns River between early 1961 & mid 1964.
4302 on a up goods passing through Johns River, March 1961. (Barry Trudgett)

#18

Fingal Line / Re: Henbury Farm

Last post by admin - March 29, 2026, 09:12:44 AM

Diagram (1930/2) (NAA)

#19

Fingal Line / Malahide Siding

Last post by admin - March 29, 2026, 09:10:13 AM

Type : Siding
Line : Fingal Line
Distance from Conara Junction : 055.600km
Location : -41.626454, 147.970804
Opened : Circa 1921 as Williams Siding
Closed : Unknown
Status : Closed
Name meaning : An historic property 2 Km. north of Fingal. It is situated on the banks of the South Esk River just before the junction with the Break O'Day River. The property was a grant to William Talbot in the early 1820's and he named it after Malahide Castle" in Dublin, Ireland where his family had lived since the 12th century.
Notes : (per Michael Dix) Williams Siding (also known as Fingal Coal siding) was put in around 1920 to serve a nearby coal mine. The initial mining venture was fairly shortlived and the proposed branch line from Williams Siding to the mine never eventuated. Two later mines in the area shipped their coal through Fingal. Production from both mines increased rapidly after the Second
World War, and the Fingal Coal Company re-opened the old William's Siding
in 1947-48, the siding being named Malahide. Production at the Fingal Mine
ceased in 1965 and Malahide Siding was officially closed on 17.6.1966. It was later reopened to load woodchip logs.

#20

Fingal Line / Re: Fingal

Last post by admin - March 29, 2026, 09:03:50 AM

Fingal - diagram (1930/2) (NAA)