St Helena

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Type : Station
Line : Murwillumbah Branch
Distance from Sydney : 875.690km
Opened : unknown, but shown as a siding on 23/6/1900, by 1905 it was being referenced as a station in the Working Timetable.
Closed : 30 June 1974
Status : Closed
Name meaning : No primary reference
Notes: This was originally a cream platform. In 1927 there are references to a dead end siding at the platform. It is known that the platform swapped sides when it was moved 96 metres on the Up side. The station was an early casualty on the line, in 1949 there was one pupil a day being picked up to transport to Mullumbimby by rail - it's noted that a bus service for the 39 pupils in the Talofa to Myocum section of the line (excluding Byron) would henceforth be carried by bus as it was faster and meant students would arrive both at school and home in a more timely manner.

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St Helena (1986) (Bob Richardson)

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Location of St Helena (Six Maps)

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St Helena 1970, excursion train (Bill Aitken)

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Article from 1927 requesting improvements at the location.

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50m north of bridge June 2017, rough location of the on-time platform (Geoff Bensley).

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NSW 4459+4451 N4 GCM St Helena 31-08-1976_2 (Bob Richo)

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44212 leads the Gold Coast Motorail through St Helena (undated) (Winney Collection)

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44211 is beginning the descent into Byron Bay in 1986. (Chris Sim)

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Trailing view - cresting the summit of St. Helena Bank, with St. Helena platform visible in distance. A close examination of the image will show some mountain goats descending the cutting after taking their photos! Saturday 26.04.1969. Photo by Peter Neve.