Koolkhan

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Type : Station
Line : North Coast Line
Distance from Sydney : 706.500km
Location : -29.622530, 152.930334
Opened : 6 November 1905 (Construction name was Sulferino Road)
Closed : 1975 (station)
Status : Closed
Name meaning : After the name of a creek in the vicinity that was named after an old homestead in the area
Notes: Rocla Siding was removed in the 90s, it was a 300 metre loop siding. The Up side platform was 30.48 metres long. 16/7/1975 - tank and station demolished.

Rocla Siding

Rocla Siding, Koolkhan: 300-metre loop siding; removed in the 1990s

County Council Siding (Clarence River County Council)

Power's code inserted — W.N. — 1950: County Council Siding, Koolkhan — Ordinary code 3410–8; Local code 3415–58 (alongside Ampol Siding Taree and Sulphide Junction Coal Siding)

Type F highway signals and ground frame alterations — Tuesday, 2 November 1965 — W.N. 45–1965

Koolkhan Goods Siding

Power's code — W.N. 42–1975: Koolkhan Siding — listed in North Coast siding cluster between Clearfield and Piercey-Nott and P.D.S. Holdings
Koolkhan Goods Siding — Power's code 3410–21 (W.N. 42–1975 — listed separately; ref. 1970 tables)

Tool House

Koolkhan Tool House (439m 30c) — Telephone No. 83 Circuit, North, transferred from Warragai Creek to Koolkhan Tool House on 30 July 1945 (W.N. 35–1945); code call (m) unchanged

Other References

Copmanhurst Road level crossing (438m 71c): Station-master at Grafton held emergency switch box key
Gatekeeper's Residence (438m 71c): Referenced in 1955 WN
Four-wheeled wagons: Koolkhan was the southern boundary — "Stations and Sidings North of Koolkhan to South Brisbane" prohibited from running four-wheeled wagons (W.N. 21–1974)

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Approximate location of the one-time Koolkhan station, opened in 1905 (Google Maps)

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Site of the former Koolkan (Scott S) (flickr)

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Old siding at Koolkhan leading to the power station (2013, Scott S (flickr))

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Transhipping boiler from rail truck to low loader at Koolkhan Power Station

Date(s) of creation: Dec. 1955-Jan. 1956.

photograph : gelatin silver ; 6.4 x 6.4 cm. approx.

Reproduction rights owned by the State Library of Victoria

Accession No: H92.401/674

Image No: b32363

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The line still curves around the location of the old platform (Ian Douglas)

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Platform was just past the house (old gate keeper's) Marsh family lived there and some of family also finished up the job.

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Frame C, Rocla Siding, Koolkhan, 18/5/2022 (Boris Grishenko)

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Koolkhan, 2022

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Koolkhan level crossing (undated, State Archives)

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Koolkhan (undated, State Archives)

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Koolkhan

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Koolkhan (undated, State Archives)

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Rail Motor 1 at Koolkhan, 1915

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Down special at Koolkhan, 25/4/1969 (Munro)