Border Loop

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Type : Loop
Station Number : KB7 (on opening), KB11 (from 1948)
Distance from Sydney : 875.10km
Opened : 1930
Closed : 1st July 1987 (1st time), 6th July 1995 (2nd and final time)
Status : Closed
Name meaning : From the location adjacent to the NSW/Queensland border.
Notes : Opened as an interlocked loop 419 metres in length and staff station -listed in 1930 as an unnatended station with goods permitted to be booked through. Employee platform was 16' in length. Re-opened 13/3/1989. No.1 Down siding was on the up side of the line. 26 Oct 1944 converted to a centrally operated crossing loop. Platform provided in 1948. Single man's cabin provided in 1958.  Closing as a Crossing Loop and Staff Station** — On Wednesday, **1 July 1987**, between 7.30 a.m. and 4.00 p.m., Border Loop will close as a crossing loop and staff station. 1989 — Border Loop Re-opened as Crossing Loop and Staff Station — 13 March 1989. (see forum notes for full details)

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Border Loop signal box (Andrew Duffin)

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Construction Camp, Border loop, 1927 (SLNSW)

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Last Brisbane Ltd Express through Border Loop 1-7-1987

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Border Loop signal box (undated, uncredited - 1960s?). Of particular interest is the "lamp room" - common to the line these were made out of old ships' water tanks.

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Relief Cabin Border Loop Railway station just before station closed. (Michael Harley)

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Border Loop (undated, dunedoo, flickr)

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1976 floods (dunedoo)

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Location of the one time loop (Six Maps)

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Flood waters flooding across main line at Border Loop, 1976. Main line closed for many days between Casino and Brisbane. Flood was caused by cloud burst in local mountains. 17 inches of rain fell in about 1 1/2 Hours - note the trike in the floodwaters.

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Tunnel construction Border Loop near Kyogle 1927

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Wagons loaded with rock spoils from construction of the Border Loop Railway tunnel between NSW & Qld 1927

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Workman on the construction of the Border Loop tunnel around 1929

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Border Loop Signal Box 1971. Note the kerosene lamp on the staff exchanging platform. Taken by Darrell Edwards.

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Signalmens quarters Border Loop across the creek from the main house. Taken by Darrell Edwards 1971.