Glenreagh

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Works train led by 1904 at Glenreagh in 1935

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Remains of the water tower in 2019

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Glenreagh station plans (Records NSW)

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Resident enginner's office at Glenreagh in 1923 - assume this may have had something to do with the GD line construction.

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Steve Shotton (3//4/2023)

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3813 on the return home of the RTM South Brisbane Tour standing in Glenreagh station on 13th January 1973. (George Stevens)

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Glenreagh, 1/11/1948. (State Archives)

The train on the Dorrigo side of the platform is probably 1957 which was a regular on the line and ran a thrice weekly mixed goods at this point.

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Glenreagh Loco, 1/1/1948 (State Archives)

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Glenreagh, undated (State Archives)

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Glenreagh, Oct 2023, Sharon Rewell

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Here is the Lee family at the Glenreagh barracks, 1984. To the right is the 652.500 km peg plus Beyer Garratt 6039.
At that time several DSRM volunteers including myself were living at the barracks. The barracks has since been demolished by ARTC.
The DSRM volunteers worked from the Glenreagh barracks until the line was reopened to Lowanna in 1984 when they moved into Lowanna station. When the line was reopened to Dorrigo in 1986 the volunteers moved to Dorrigo. I remained behind at the Glenreagh barracks as the caretaker of the bottom end of the line until 1989, when I moved to Moleton. (Greg Lee)

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Here is a pic of the initial DSRM workers' sleeping quarters at Glenreagh barracks in 1982. The truck is a B or D truck (I never did memorise the differences between the two). The people in this photo are John Wilson and Debbie Clement.
In late 1982 John Wilson and myself started clearing the G-D line from the Glenreagh end. John was living at Dorrigo and had been clearing the Dorrigo end, but when I moved to Glenreagh in October '82 John and I worked at Glenreagh on weekends, when I was home from working away. (Greg Lee)

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Glenreagh on 17 February 1987 (Peter Burr)

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June 1950 - A view of the Glenreagh Railway Station and the flooded Orara River spreading over the flats to the west of the station. Note the floodwaters reaching the western boundary of the railway station yard and coming up to the Sherwood Creek Road railroad crossing.

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World War 1 Recruitment march, 1915 (this is the year written on the rear of the photo. It could be 1916) - The townspeople of Glenreagh walked with the Recruitment team over to the railway station to see them back off to Grafton.  As in the previous picture, the children are wearing what appears to be their good clothing along with hats, long socks and boots. The women are mostly dressed in shirts and skirts and wearing their hats. While it is difficult to see many men, those that can be seen are wearing trousers, jackets and hats. Only one soldier can be seen mounted on this horse. The soldiers at the front don't appear to be carrying rifles, as those at the middle and rear appear to be doing.
The leading group of people are walking beside the railway line, as the railway line and railway signals can be seen mid left of the picture. It appears they are in the railway grounds while those at the rear are still on, what is now, Sherwood Creek Road, just before the railway crossing, following the group to turn and enter the railway grounds.
In the background, just to the mid right of the picture, you can see the railway bridge that crosses the Orara River, To the right of this and on the far right of the picture are buildings, These could be the beginnings of the timber mill and housing that originally stood on this site.
Note all the dead trees in the background. These were most likely ringbarked, i.e., the removal of a ring of the bark from around a tree trunk to kill the tree, and was a popular method used at that time to help clear the land.