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#71

Fingal Line / Re: Mount Nicholas

Last post by admin - April 22, 2026, 07:40:21 AM

Mount Nicholas (location - Google)

#72

Fingal Line / Mount Nicholas

Last post by admin - April 22, 2026, 07:39:15 AM

Type : Station
Line : Fingal Line
Distance from Conara Junction : 067.900km
Location : -41.575769, 148.094748
Opened : 29 June 1886
Closed : Circa 1982
Status : Closed
Name meaning : After the location
Notes : Location had a crossing loop (lifted prior to 1968) and a dead end siding that serviced stock loading facilities. The fairly substantial station building was replaced with a simpler waiting shed. Original station had a seperate urinal.

#73

Fingal Line / Re: Silkstone Siding

Last post by admin - April 22, 2026, 07:28:10 AM

Location of the siding (LISTmap)

#74

Fingal Line / Silkstone Siding

Last post by admin - April 22, 2026, 07:27:49 AM

Type : Siding
Line : Fingal Line
Distance from Conara Junction : 065.900km
Location : -41.576094, 148.079443
Opened : Circa 1920, closed circa 1922, re-opened 1952
Closed : Circa 1954
Status : Closed
Name meaning : After the company that operated there
Notes : A siding that serviced the Silkstone Syndicate Coal Mine. The area known as the Silkstone mine has never produced any great quantity of coal, although periodic prospecting has been carried out since the 1920s. In 1920, a pre-existing small pit (mine) was leased to Messrs Meredith and Whittle, who obtained a bulk sample the coal but did little development work. Hills et al. (1922) reported that the Silkstone workings comprised three tunnels of a prospecting nature on one seam; one tunnel 76 m long on a lower seam (probably L2); and a
few prospecting adits on an upper seam (probably Ll). No coal appears to have been mined, apart from the 140 t
removed in 1920, until work recommenced in 1950. Elliston (1951) reported that seven tonnes of coal were being
produced per day from one adit; a second adit on a lower scam was accessible but was not in use. Production ceased in 1951 after 620 t had been mined. The mine ceased operating mainly because of problems of water accumulating in the adit.

#75

Fingal Line / Re: Break O'Day

Last post by admin - April 22, 2026, 07:25:51 AM

Location of the platform (LISTmap)

#76

Fingal Line / Break O'Day

Last post by admin - April 22, 2026, 07:16:40 AM

Type : Platform
Line : Fingal Line
Distance from Conara Junction : 064.300km
Location : -41.580227, 148.065635
Opened : 1888
Closed : 1907
Status : Closed
Name meaning : Probably after the creekm of the same name
Notes :

#77

Tugrabakh to Taree / Re: Taree

Last post by admin - April 22, 2026, 06:57:48 AM

Old signals branch depot repurposed to ARTC administration building.
"The White House"
21-03-26
Greg Riddel

#78

Derwent Valley Line / Re: Fitzgerald

Last post by admin - April 21, 2026, 11:03:27 AM

Tasmanian Government Railways locomotive B7 at Fitzgerald with a passenger train from Hobart, Tasmania, 1 March 1937 [picture] / W.R.B.J

#79

Lismore to Byron Bay / Construction Siding

Last post by admin - April 21, 2026, 08:45:27 AM

Type : Siding (later junction)
Line : Murwillumbah Branch
Distance from Sydney : 856.223km
Location :
Opened : 23rd April 1925
Closed :
Status : Closed
Name meaning : N/A
Notes :  A siding in order to facilitate the construction of the new line from Booyong to Ballina. Initially under control of Bexhill, later Booyong. See Booyong Junction.

#80

South Line Suburban Locations / Re: Claremont

Last post by admin - April 21, 2026, 07:06:44 AM

Claremont station, 1985, not long before it was demolished. (Ray Hewitt)