Tilly Willy Siding

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Tilly Willy Siding

David Day
Produce shed on Tilly Willy creek siding. Old rail houses in the background.

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Macksville 1934 diagram. Weekly Notice 44-1927 notes LEONARD'S WHARF SIDING would be renamed Tilly Willy Wharf Siding. Forsyth, the railway archivist, notes Leonard's Wharf Siding was provided on 29.1.1921. WN6-1921 lists the siding. The only other WN references to Tilly Willy are WN 32-1940 advising the removal of the 5 ton crane and WN27-1979 requesting that references to the siding be removed from all internal publications. No closing date is given.

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Type : Siding
Line : North Coast Line
Distance from Sydney : 552.7384km
Opened : 29 January 1921 as Leonard's Wharf Siding, renamed October 1927
Closed : Priot to 1979 (ref WN 27/1979)
Status : Closed
Name meaning : After the owner (originally) and then the location
Notes : A 668' siding that lay along the banks of Tilly Willy Creek to the north of Macksville station. The wharf had a 5 tonne crane that appears to have been removed sometime in 1940 and a produce store at the end of the wharf.

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Location of the siding, now completely obliterated.

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Tilly Willy Wharf, undated