Lowanna

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Type : Station
Line : Dorrigo Branch
Distance from Sydney : 684.400km
Location : -30.206750, 152.898718
Opened : 23 December 1924
Closed : 1972 (final train), 21st August 1975 (station closed)
Status : Reused
Name meaning : Aboriginal word meaning "girl"
Notes : Opened with a 377m interlocked loop. Down side platform was 30.4 metres long, yard held four 10 ton cranes.

### Associated Sidings at Lowanna
- **Earp, Woodcock and Beveridge's Sidings:** Opened **9 May 1925** (W.N. 20–1925) — Mileage 434m 53c; No. 1 Siding 387 feet dead-end (Up side); No. 2 Siding 159 feet leading off No. 1 Siding; grades 1 in 200 and 1 in 50 falling from Main line
- **ACI Casemaker's Siding, Lowanna:** Listed in accommodation table (1961); renamed **Lloyd's Siding, Lowanna** — W.N. 18–1961 (ref. A.1–59–31,203); still in tables as both names 1972
- **Nairns Siding, Lowanna:** Listed in 1972 accommodation table 
Lowanna opened 23 December 1924 with the Dorrigo Branch. Signal-box A with Duplex Lock on No. 2 Lever releasing Frames B and C (Regulation g) — a more complex arrangement than the intermediate sidings with simple Staff Drawer Locks. Controlling station for the Lowanna–Dorrigo section (Ulong, Brooklana, Mulhearn's Siding, Briggsvale, Megan etc.). The Lowanna–Dorrigo section was split in November 1925 into Lowanna–Megan and Megan–Dorrigo with two revisions (W.N. 47 and 48–1925). Earp, Woodcock and Beveridge's Sidings opened 9 May 1925, just north of Lowanna at Mileage 434m 53c. ACI Casemaker's Siding renamed Lloyd's Siding W.N. 18–1961. Loose key for Timber Top–Lowanna (serving Moleton siding) withdrawn 4 July 1961. Timber Top closed 31 May 1972 — Glenreagh–Lowanna section created.

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Water Gin carriage Lowanna Railway Station NSW (Sharon Rewell)

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Lowanna NSW Railway Station (Sharon Rewell)

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Lowanna NSW - opposite the railway station. Sad to see it like this (Sharon Rewell)

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Lowanna Railway Station NSW (Sharon Rewell)

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Lowanna Railway Station NSW
View from the back of the station
(Sharon Rewell)

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Loading bank, Lowanna (Sharon Rewell)

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Lowanna NSW
View of the Railway  Station area


(Sharon Rewell)

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Lowanna (Sharon Rewell)

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The Railway Crane at Lowanna (Sharon Rewell)







Greg Lee:


That crane was electrically operated, and was installed not long before the line closed in 1972. Peviously there was a hand-operated crane at at Lowanna.

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Lowanna NSW
Railway Station, maybe on the other side of the railway station loading timber   My step Grandfather Albert Barbie ( Bert) pre 1959


(Sharon Rewell)

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Lowanna Railway Station NSW
From my mother's photo album


(Sharon Rewell)

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Lowanna Station (from the Glenreagh Mountain Railway page)

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Lowanna (Sharon Rewell)

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Lowanna in April 1954 (F Reed)