Banyabba

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Type : Station
Line : North Coast Line
Distance from Sydney : 742.866km
Location : -29.347202, 153.018379
Opened : 6 November 1905
Closed : 30 June 1974 (station), 1983 (signal box), 9th June 2010 (crossing loop)
Status : Closed
Name meaning : After the local parish of the same name
Notes : The 30.4 metre timber platform was on the Up side and held a shelter with a waiting room. 3rd March 1926 opened as an electric staff station (but not as a crossing station), and on 22nd March it opened as a crossing station. May 1926 - 434 metre interlooked loop added. 11/1987 - both residences sold and removed. The loop remained after the conversion to CTC but later closed with the opening of a new, longer loop at Lawrence Road. Station had a phone by the mid 1920 (No. 68 North Telephone Circuit originally, altered at later dates). 5 ton gantry crane removed in 1944. Ground exchanger installed opp signal box in 1948. Became part of South Grafton Locomotive Depot district 25th July 1948. Goods siding removed and abolished 20th December 1979. CTC introduced 1983. Crossing loop removed 9/6/2010 (ARTC). Banyabba station was a non-official post office (Australia Post records (SP1454/1 / GA3056).

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Banyabba, 1982 (Greg Lee)

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Banyabba in 1982 (Greg Lee)

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12th Jan 1934 from trove / nth star newspaper Banyabba Station Between Grafton and Casino .

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Banyabba in 2013 (Scott Sashmo)

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Location of Banyabba (Six Maps)

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Ben King:

Worked there 1973/74/75
Lonely place. No power. No people to talk to. Car access only.

Des Firth:

In the sixties there was a lot of family's living there

Ben King:

Only bloke there was a Dave Reardon and wife and kids but when you were there they normally gone to Grafton. There was two signallers houses there. On a Sunday shift you would come on to put No 1 Brisbane Limited and maybe couple of other trains . Book off for most of day and come back pm and put No 2 Brisbane Limited back through and a couple of other trains. All day to get a shift. On leaving ask the man on the wall which way he wanted to home stick left and lock up box

Stephen Martin:

Lots of places like that are just location signs now , I worked past a lot of them and wondered what was there originally ! Thanks to this group I'm finding out , cheers for that !

Richard Butcher:

Ah all those small stations, Banyabba, Shanonbrook, Camira creek, Leeville, Rappville, Gurranang, memories of ones child hood days, and much steam. Fast goods trains 2- C 35's, double D 50's, even a C35&c36 recall. And the small bankers like 1301:1307:1311& occasionally 1218:1219! Lawrence Road.

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Remains of the trolley shed at Banyabba (supplied) (2022)

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Banyabba, undated

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Banyabba signal box, undated

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Banyabba, 1976

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From Railway Digest.

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No. 14 North Coast Mail at Banyabba (13/1/1954) (Skiller Collection)

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Banyabba, 1/7/1982 (State Archives)

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Banyabba, and 5916 has detached to return to Grafton, leaving 5908 to continue with the RTM tour train to Casino. Friday 25.04.1969. (Peter Neve)