Kagaru

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Type : Station/Loop
Line : North Coast Line
Distance from Sydney : 938.386km
Opened : 28th August 1930 (loop) 21 March 1945 (platform)
Closed : unknown
Status : Closed
Name meaning : Aboriginal word for blue-winged kookaburra
Notes : Opened as a loop only. 12.49 metre island platform added along with a new main and loop 21/3/1945. Water facilities drawn from Teviot Creek.

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Kagaru, 1966 (Robert Bushby)

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44237 + 4522 powering up after safe working at Kagaru on a down freight on a Saturday morning in May 1994. (Steve McElroy)

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A general view of Kagaru from the road over bridge in May 1994. (Steve McElroy)

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Kagaru signal box environs in May 1994. (Steve McElroy)

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Old water columns @ Kagaru (David Philips)

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Kagaru's frame circa 1971 (Darrell Edwards)

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Waiting Hut at Kagaru, it is now at the Beaudsert History Museum

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Kagaru Station with my Uncle Noel Woodeson and Brian Price. (Suzi McGuiness)

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NT32 passes through Kagaru, 7/9/23 (Ant Evans)

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Kagaru - credits on photo

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Robert Bushby
24 February 2020

30 years since the Brisbane Limited. I had many enjoyable trips on this train. These photos were taken at Kagaru on 27 / 2/1966 and show 4527 on a late running Brisbane bound Limited. Kagaru was the second crossing loop heading south from Clapham and was an interlocked and manned station. QR provided the staff here who no doubt had to learn another alltogether different rule book to work with NSW trains.
The colour photo is a copy of a slide taken by Dennis Maclean.

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Matt Stevens:

My father "Jack" ( ASM at Kagaru) with some photographers "the Bushbys" in 1966? He was very thankful for the photos they sent us after their excursion.

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Kagaru, around 94-ish. My photo, found recently. I believe the signalman handing up the staff is Ken Dalton. (Hamish Withington)

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Kagaru signal box, circa 1994. Long before I was in the railway job, a mate and I would spend a bit of time here, enjoying watching the last days of electric staff & mechanical signalling.
At the time, lots of very old locos were leading trains. 442 & 44 class mostly, and one evening here when it was just too dark to take a photo, 3507 also led a southbound train!
Camping out here through the nights, you could hear the old Alco locos load up in the distance.
Funny thing now, as there's hardly a trace of the place left now.

(Hamish Withington)