Type : Station
Line : North Coast Line
Distance from Sydney : 472.500km
Opened : 27 November 1917
Closed : 23 February 1983
Status : Open (station closed), loop in use
Name meaning : No primary reference
Notes : The original Up platform was 111.25 metres in legth and held a standard A4 station building, there was a standard G3 goods shed and a J2 station masters cottage. A water tank with a 203mm bore jib was sited to the north of the platform and is still in situ, water was pumped from the Wilson River via an oil engine. An ash pit was 35.9 metres to the north of the platform. Opened with a central interlocked loop. 3/12/1917 wharf siding laid in. 25/6/1926 5 tonne yard crane installed. 1947 electric lights installed at the station. 1963 ashpit out of use and filled in. 30/3/1984 station building removed for re-use nearby but never re-erected, the remains could be seen decaying away for some years. The platform was reduced to 91.1 metres prior to 1961. Curiously, the platform appears to have been rebuilt in concrete after closure and then later demolished, construction of the short platform with a waiting room started in March 1984 and cost $70k. Telegraph Point has a 1600 metre crossing loop.
Telegraph Point, undated
Telegraph Point, 1982 (Greg Lee)
Telegraph Point 1982, Greg Lee
Demolition of Telegraph Point station prior to (supposedly) being relocated, 28/2/1984 - the building was supposed to have been rebuilt and restored adjacent to the Old Butter Factory restaurant. Pretty sure it never happened though.
Location of Telegraph Point station (Six Maps)
Telegraph Point station (uncredited), opened 1917, closed 1983.
The station was re-used after closing but has since been demolished, the water tower remains.
Wilson River at Telegraph Point, new road bridge being constructed in 1973. The railway line is in the foreground and shows the manned crossing that was typical of the line. (RMS)
Derailment Telegraph Point (Claude Nolan)
Telegraph Point (1961, Jenkins Family Collection)
44233 leads the down North Coast Daylight into Telegraph Point, 1980 (Graeme Skeet)
The lever frame inside the signal box. (1982)
[Copyright: Graeme Skeet]
A close-up view of the automatic staff exchanger which was ready for a north bound freight. (1982)
[Copyright: Graeme Skeet]
Taken in 1982 shows the how the Station Master was proud of his green thumb and received some local awards for his vegetation displays. (1982)
[Copyright: Graeme Skeet]
Telegraph Point (1968, Dick Dawes)
Telegraph Point, 1963 (James Rush)
Telegraph Point (1973, HSWRHI)
Telegraph Point station, 1960s including garden awards
Telegraph Point station, 1960s including garden awards
Telegraph Point station, 1960
Telegraph Point, 1960s (State Library)
Pacific Highway crossing at Telegraph Point in 1973.
Aerial view of Telegraph Point, 1967
Gardens at Telegraph Point (undated) (Telegraph Point & District History and Memories)
Telegraph Point (undated)
Telegraph Point in 1973
1920. The Wilson River Bridge and Pacific Highway at Telegraph Point, built in 1902 it was demolished in 1974.
Copyright to W.E. Nunan from the Collection of W.H. McNeice
Telegraph Point station, circa 1930s
Close up of Telegraph Point/Wauchope staffs, 1983 (Graeme Skeet)
Wilson River at Telegraph Point, new road bridge being constructed in 1973. The railway line is in the foreground and shows the manned crossing that was typical of the line. (RMS)
Telegraph Point, 1926 (SLNSW)
Telegraph Point, 1920s
4451 down goods at Telegraph Point 16-9-85 (Garry Holt)
Note the truncated platform.
1WB7 Telegraph Point 472.540 km
QL 012 - QL006. 5/9/2022
Undated image - Telegraph Point old road bridge looking towards the railway crossing. (Hastings Library)
Telegraph Point, 1967 (Hastings Library)
Telegraph Point (undated, State Archives)
Telegraph Point in 1983 after closure (SLNSW)
Telegraph Point, 1992 (Peter Neve)
4451 Down goods, Telegraph Point 16-9-85 (Garry Holt)
No 292 Goods at Telegraph Point, 1/11/1976 (Munro)
Telegraph Point (undated) (Booth)
Telegraph Point, 1927
Telegraph Point (undated) (State Archives)
Wharf Siding, Telegraph Point, undated, State Archives
Vintage train to Kempsey at Telegraph Point, 24/11/1967 (State Archives)
Telegraph poles being loaded at Telegraph Point, 1930s
3518+4536+44214 267 Telegraph Pt 22-07-90 (Leon Batman)
The "new" station at Telegraph Point (never used) in 1992 (Peter Neve)
3642 at Telegraph Point during the 1988 Bicentennial celebrations, of note is the second Telegraph Point station which was never used, no not even for this train & the NOBX wagon in the siding with coal in bulk bags for the locomotive, the light blue coloured house to the right on the hill is long demolished & the points in the actual siding itself are long since removed.
Greg Riddel.
National Rail Era:
1BS2 with 8045 8007 enters the loop at Telegraph Point to cross N3 XPT.
Circa 1997.
Greg Riddel
Nov 1967. The vintage train stops enroute to Kempsey at Telegraph Point. archivesNSW
Replacement Pacific Highway Bridge completed in 1974 spanning the Wilson River & North Coast Railway Line, up side looking South.
13-08-2024 (Greg Riddel)
Southern end Eastern side of bridge showing DMR 1974 (Department of Main Roads) completion date plaque.
11-08-2024 (Greg Riddel)
Official opening date 17th April 1974 by Sir Charles Cutler, Southern end Western abutment. (Greg Riddel)
Controversial bridge to the Butter Factory, which once featured regularly on the local news, past owners wanted it upgraded to except tourist coaches.
13-08-2024 (Greg Riddel)
Former Railway Employees residence.
13-08-2024 (Greg Riddel)
Site of Wally Jenkins former Station Masters residence with the only sign there was a house here being the disconnected power pole.
13-08-2024 (Greg Riddel)
Another Railway Employees house used to sit atop of the embankment above the ballast pile.
13-08-2024 (Greg Riddel)
Old water 💦 tank ironically photo taken in the rain.
13-08-2024 (Greg Riddel)
Downside view looking North showing 472.500km peg siding Hy-rail takeoff water tank & bridge to the butter factory.
13-08-2024 (Greg Riddel)
6590 at Telegraph Point
14-09-96 (Greg Riddel)
8254 is in the capable hands of Engineman Ross Blanch with 6122 & 490 tonnes of sugar crossing 1PB4 at Telegraph Point visable are the "hot steel billets 🔥" loaded at the soon to be closed BHP Newcastle Steel Works.
18/1/97
Greg Riddel
National Rail
2MB5 8014 8007
Telegraph Point
10-09-1996
Greg Riddel
Telegraph Point
3642 reversing onto its train in the loop.
Circa 1988
Greg Riddel