Kilbride

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Type : Loop
Distance from Sydney : 223.468km
Opened : Opened 25 May 1942 as interlocked 481.5 metre loop on Up side, Central interlocking added 17 November 1942.
Closed : n/a
Status : In use
Name meaning : After town of Kilbride, County Antrim, Ireland
Notes : 17/7/1985 signal box and toilet removed after CTC installed. The passing loop was extended to 1563 metres and there is a short 154 metre Up facing siding contained within the loop.

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Location of Kilbride Loop (Six Maps)

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April 1946 near Kilbride siding north of Paterson. The engine driver was killed and several bulk milk tankers destroyed when the milk express from Taree to Sydney was derailed during torrential rain.

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5112 and 5408 Kilbride 29/10/1972 (Merv Gaut)

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Kilbride signal box in the 1970s (unknown photographer)

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BS6 in Kilbride waiting for NT32 to pass (Stephen Joseph Miller)

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Up Freight in late 1990s emerging from fog about 200m south of loop (Stephen Joseph Miller)

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Kilbride layout, 1942

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Kilbride from NT35 24/4/21 (Lance Lyon)

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Kilbride Loop, Stephen Joseph Miller, May 2020

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View from cab of NT-25 in the Loop at Kilbride, crossing an Up "City Rail" 620 class rail car on a service from Dungog. 3-23pm, 8-4-2003.  Kilbride Loop was extended at this Northern end (as well as the Southern end) in December 2009, to be 1567 metres in length. (Graeme Kirkby)

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Kilbride local control panel