Timber Top

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Type : Siding/Passing Loop
Distance from Sydney : 667.800km
Opened : 23 December 1924
Closed : 31st May 1972, abolished same year, closed 20 September 1975
Status : Closed
Name meaning : The name refers to a general description of the area.
Notes : No platform, a 5 ton yard crane was installed which was removed in 1964. 18/11/1925 366.9 metre interlocked loop installed.

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Seeing as the markings on the G-D line are still in miles, chains and links, the kilometreage is a little artificial me thinks! The Mileage of Timbertop signal box is 414:69:68

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Timber Top in 2009 (uncredited)

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Timber Top signal box. (F Reed)

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1954 waits at Timber Top 17/4/1957 (N Reed)

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Timber Top looking towards Dorrigo, 1984 (Chris Stewart)

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Timber Top sign, undated (uncredited)

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5088 at Timber Top on its way to Dorrigo (1964 NSW State Archives collection)

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5088 photostop at Timbertop (1964 NSW State Archive collection)

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5088 somewhere near Timber Top on its way to Dorrigo (1964 NSW State Archives collection)

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30/08/1964: 5088 with the Vintage Train at Timber Top. Photography credit to Michael Schrader.

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Location of Timber Top (Six Maps)

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Greg Lee :

These  photos were taken by the NSWGR archivist John Forsyth and are part of the State Rail photo collection at the State Archives NSW. They show 5088 and passengers on the Dorrigo Line on an ARHS (Australian Railway Historical  Society) tour on Saturday 30th August 1964.
The Up Home signal at Timbertop had a particularly tall post. I don't know why that was the case; it was near the bottom of a steep grade, but so were lots of other places in the state where there were not tall posts. I remember a Signal & Comm employee telling me in the '80s that he and his gang had loaded the post onto a train for removal elsewhere after Timbertop closed as a staff station. Unfortunately I can't recall the bloke's name.
In this photo we see three of the passengers from the tour train taking advantage of the height of the signal post.

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In my haste to share these photos with (paraphrasing how Stuart Cranny described his listeners on 2JJ c1978) you viewers, parts, bits, things...
I missed these two. They are taken at a photo stop between Timbertop station and the 1260 level crossing (Google it). Now I know that at least two of you are going to say, "we've seen that one before", and so you have, but the one you saw before was taken by a different photographer in the same photo line. And you may not have seen the second one as it is one of John Forsyth's photos of the people (parts, bits, things).
These photos were taken by the NSWGR archivist John Forsyth and are part of the State Rail photo collection at the State Archives NSW. They show 5088 and passengers on the Dorrigo Line on an ARHS (Australian Railway Historical Society) tour on Saturday 30th August 1964.

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Greg Lee:

I posted this earlier today, but it appears to have disappeared. Lance Lyon please delete if necessary.
These photos were taken by the NSWGR archivist John Forsyth and are part of the State Rail photo collection at the State Archives NSW. They show 5088 on the Dorrigo Line on an ARHS (Australian Railway Historical Society) tour on Saturday 30th August 1964.
The train has paused at Timbertop for the safe working rituals and photos. 5088 appears to have been given a bit of touch up, presumably by South Grafton loco. To anyone who is familiar with the line these days two things stand out; the lack of vegetation, and the good condition of the infrastructure. The clearance lamp and the 415 mile peg appear to be freshly painted.
John Forsyth evidently was interested in the people as well as the railway. Most tour train patrons only photographed the train.