Sawtell

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Type : Station
Line : North Coast Line
Distance from Sydney : 600.668km
Location : -30.359565, 153.097350
Opened : 13 July 1925
Closed : 18/11/1989, then re-opened
Status : In use
Name meaning : After Mr Oswald C Sawtell for whom the platform was built
Notes : A 100 foot dead end siding on the up side of the line was brought into service on 18/03/1940, the siding could hold 4 four wheel trucks, it was removed on 8/11/1976. The original Up timber platform was 76.2 metres long with timber platform building. The new station is similar to Eungai and Urunga. 1928 - toilets installed. 1957 - electric lighting installed. 1959 - waiting room extended.Sawtell platform opened **13 July 1925** — named after Mr Oswald C. Sawtell. 250-foot (76.2m) Up side unattended platform at Mileage 373m 19c, between Bonville and Boambee; Nos. 11 and 14 Mail trains and Nos. 149 and 52 Goods trains stop when required (from August 1925). Toilets installed 1928. Opened as Booking Station for coaching traffic only from 1 December 1937. Departmental dead-end siding added 18 March 1940 — 100 feet, Up side, Mileage 373m 26c (329 feet Grafton side of platform); Frame A; Raleigh–Coffs Harbour ETS; standing room 4 four-wheel trucks. Seal Press No. 764 allotted late 1940. Electric lighting 1957; waiting room extended 1959.
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> Goods Siding abolished 8 November 1976 — 2A points, catch-point and Frame A removed (W.N. 45–1976). Sawtell deleted from stations list W.N. 47–1976, then re-inserted as Sawtell\* ("Small consignments of a light nature only") W.N. 50–1976 with Power's code 3370; standing room "5" deleted from accommodation table W.N. 51–1976. Hulbert Street level crossing Type F signals commissioned 18 June 1989 (600.889 km). Station closed **18 November 1989**; subsequently re-opened. 1940 — Departmental Dead-End Siding — 18 March 1940; Frame A; 329 Feet Grafton Side of Platform ((W.N. 12–1940) - Sawtell (North Coast) — Provision of Siding** — On **Tuesday, 18th March, 1940**, between 8.0 a.m. and 5.0 p.m., a new Departmental Dead-end Siding, **100 feet** in length in the clear, laid in on the **Up side** of the Main line at Mileage **373m 26c**, **329 feet on the Grafton side of Sawtell Platform**, will be brought into use. **Sawtell (North Coast) — Abolition of Goods Siding** — On **Monday, 8th November, 1976**, between 8.0 a.m. and 4.0 p.m., Sawtell Goods Siding will be abolished. **No. 2A points and catch-point, Frame A and associated equipment** will be removed. (S.&C. 127433.) *(W.N. 45–1976)* Error in the WN - List of Stations, Sidings and Platforms — North Coast Line** — Delete **Sawtell** and relevant particulars. (B2 74 71076.) *(W.N. 47–1976)* - correction then published : List of Stations, Sidings and Platforms — North Coast Line** — Insert **Sawtell**, **602 km** from Darling Harbour; **441 km** from Newcastle. (B2 74 71076.) *(W.N. 50–1976)*. Station Closed — 18 November 1989
> **Sawtell** — Date of Closure: **Saturday, 18th November, 1989**. *(Source: 1989 Weekly Notices — closure list)*

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Sawtell station on the North Coast on 17 December 1982. Like its neighbour Urunga it was also demolished in the early 1990s and replaced with a small unattended modern structure. (Peter Burr)

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Sawtell (undated) (Newcastle Rediscovered

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Sawtell, circa 1940

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The very spartan shelter at the current station

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Location of Sawtell station (Six Maps)

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NT33 at Sawtell, 24/9/22 (Christopher Dunkerley)

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N11 - North Coast Mail - at Sawtell 14/11/1984 (Neil Munro)

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N11 - North Coast Mail - at Sawtell 1/6/1983 (Neil Munro)

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Way and Works carriage sits in the 100' siding at Sawtell in May 1972 (Records NSW)

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Sawtell, Colin Sutton (1989)

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Titled "Bricks to build the new hotel" - Sawtell station, 1930 (Coffs Collection)

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Swatell, undated (probably late 70s, early 80s) (Peter Leonard)

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Sawtell, late 60s (Adrian Swift)

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Undated image of Sawtell (Lynda Knight) (Coffs Local History - Remember When)