Loading sleepers at Wingham (undated) (Garry Simmonds)
Wingham: 'Rattles' The old overhead bridge at the up end of the station. Would have been the noisiest rail bridge on the north coast line, especially when log trucks were crossing it at three in the morning!... (Garry Woodward)
Type : Station
Line : North Coast Line
Distance from Sydney : 367.055km
Opened : 4 February 1913
Closed : n/a
Status : In use
Name meaning : Named after Wingham in Kent, England
Notes : As built, the Down side platform was 91.4 metres, this was extended to 167 metres in 1942. The original station building of timber had a general and ladies waiting room and store, this was later replaced with the current brick building. 1913 Provision of sheep races. 1922 limestone siding added. 1939 awning and platform extended. 1942 platform extended again. 1944 transit siding added. 1951 crossing loop extended. 19/7/1981 transit siding removed. 26/2/1981 stock siding removed. 11/86 residences demolished (SM cottage remains).
Wingham, January 1980 (NSW Rail Rambler)
Wingham: The old (now gone) loading ramp which loaded a variety of products including sawdust, but worst of all, the stripped down bones from the local abattoirs which might have sat in the open wagon for a couple of days... or more, right alongside our SM's residence home! (Garry Woodward)
Wingham, 1960s (Bob Elbourne)
Wingham - undated (Bob Elbourne)
Location of Wingham station (Six Maps)
Old station master's cottage at Wingham
Wingham Railway Station on opening day 1913 - Manning Valley Historical Society photo.
Wingham - undated
First train to Wingham
Wingham Rail Station
Wingham Rail Station
Wingham railway bridge - Manning Valley Historical Society photo
Primrose Street level crossing gatekeepers house in 1983 (copyright on image)
Site of Primrose Street level crossing gatekeepers house in 2020
Primrose Street gatekeeper's cottage (Dave Porter)
8034-45xx up freight at Wingham. Late 1980`s The old goods shed was still standing at this time
48137 Wingham 09-1976 (Bob Richardson)
44205 X 4438 The Up and Down North Coast Daylights cross at Wingham 09-09-1976 (Bob Richardson)
Wingham this morning 20/3/2021 (Mark Cunningham) (Cedar Party Creek)
1898 engineer's visit to Wingham - it would appear that although the survey had been done, the line was still not a c ertainty.
Weekend steam event in the Manning district - 11 to 13 June 1988. Several shuttle runs were made from Taree to: Johns River; Kimbriki; and a night run to Gloucester and back (Garry Woodward) (Wingham)
Wingham yards from Car A, XPT, 13/2/2021 (Lance Lyon)
Railway bridge at Wingham (undated, Midcoast Library)
3801 in October 1963, Wingham
Wingham, undated
Wingham, early 1980s
Gary Niness Collection.
Wingham: The old (now gone) loading ramp which loaded a variety of products including sawdust, but worst of all, the stripped down bones from the local abattoirs which might have sat in the open wagon for a couple of days... or more, right alongside our SM's residence home! (Garry Woodward)
First train to Wingham
Wingham memory - back in the 70s my family moved from Taree to Wauchope and we used to visit friends at Wingham travelling by train (they lived opposite the station). I can recall one of the guys at Wingham (no idea who or what he did, only know he worked on the railway) telling us that one time many years back when he was alone at night at Wingham hearing a WOOSH! - looked outside and saw nothing. A few minutes later that sound came again - again, nothing outside. Third time lucky as he stayed outside - a brake van had come loose from a goods train that had gone through shortly before - Wingham is in a bit of a bowl and the loose van rolled back and forward until it lost momentum.
4844-51 on down goods at Wingham 8-10-83 (Garry Holt)
Wingham Boom Gates 26 June 1958. Source State Archives.
4846 + 48151 Southbound Freight, Wingham, NSW, October 23, 1982
Wingham, automatic boom gates (1958) (State Archives)
Wingham, automatic boom gates, interior of relay hut (1958) (State Archives)
4497 on 232 Wingham 8-10-83 (Garry Holt)
Up North Coast Daylight Express at Wingham in 1971
Rob Sinclair photo
Reediting photos I took just before the Wingham Rail Station platform was 'modernised'.
Original pics taken with a 35mm Minolta SLR.
Rob Sinclair photos
Vintage train at Wingham, 21/06/1963 (State Archives)
Wingham, 1916 (State Archives)
The approach to Wingham from Taree, as viewed from NT-36, Up "Grafton XPT", showing the bridge over Cedar Party creek and the 12 chain radius curve over Primrose street level crossing. Just visible in centre of photo are the Down Starting signal and the Up Home signal. Saturday, 18-8-2007. (Graeme Kirkby)
Wingham, 1960s (Bob Elbourne)
30 March 1978. 44213 arrives with the opposing movement.
(Paul Nicholson)
Wingham (undated) (Greg Wilson)
Wingham (undated)
4306 44211 with NL74 wait in Wingham loop with signal 20-12M set for the passage of a up freight.
17-10-99
Greg Riddel