Valla

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Type : Station
Line : North Coast Line
Distance from Sydney : 570.913km
Opened : December 1939
Closed : 30 June 1974
Status : Closed
Name meaning : Named after the residence of the 19th century diplomat, Andrew Buchanan
Notes : The Down side sleeper built platform was 13.7 metres in length and had a small shelter.

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Valla Platform 1950 courtesy Bill Valla Tavern

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Location  of Valla platform (Six Maps)

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Journey of travelling on locomotive by Steam train and Diesel in school days.
Memories from Peggy Edman (Pope)
In 1944 the government passenger school steam train operated from Macksville departing at 7am picking up students to go to Coffs Harbour, Urunga Public Primary School and Urunga Primary Catholic School.
It made the following stops Macksville, Newee Creek, Nambucca Heads, Peterkins, Valla, Dalhousie, Hungry Head, Urunga, Raleigh, Repton, Archville, Bonville, Sawtell and Coffs Harbour. "There was about 45 pupils that got on at Valla station to go to school ( Peggy Pope)".
In 1959 the passenger school steam train came to an end replaced by the mail train which was diesel which travelled from Sydney to Grafton.
In 1960 the mail train took high school students to Urunga Station to catch Harry Joyce's bus to Bellingen. The mail train stopped picking up students in 1963.
I Peggy Edman (Pope) travelled on the Puffin Billy (which a lot of us called it) steam train from VALLA STATION to URUNGA STATION from 1953 to 1959 Urunga Public Primary School then in 1960 I went from Valla Station by Diesel Mail Train to Urunga Station to catch the bus to the new Bellingen Public High School. I finished high school in 1963 when the Mail train stopped taking school children by train. I have great memories and still enjoy travelling on trains.
Valla station was opened in 1939 and closed 30th June 1974
Addit: Peggy related that she remembers during the period between arriving back to the station from school, they would leave their bags at the platform and catch the bus downtown. Back in time for the 4.45pm Mail train with their school port untouched. After alighting at Valla they had a mile to walk home through the trees, using a torch to show the way.