Lowanna

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Type : Station
Line : Dorrigo Branch
Distance from Sydney : 684.400km
Opened : 23 December 1924
Closed : 1972 (final train), 21st August 1975 (station closed)
Status : Reused
Name meaning : Aboriginal word meaning "girl"
Notes : Opened with a 377m interlocked loop. Down side platform was 30.4 metres long, yard held four 10 tonne cranes. Cranes and sheep race removed in 1964. Loop siding for ACI Case-Makers provided in 1960 - renamed to Lloyd's Siding in 1961.

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Water Gin carriage Lowanna Railway Station NSW (Sharon Rewell)

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Lowanna NSW Railway Station (Sharon Rewell)

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Lowanna NSW - opposite the railway station. Sad to see it like this (Sharon Rewell)

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Lowanna Railway Station NSW (Sharon Rewell)

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Lowanna Railway Station NSW
View from the back of the station
(Sharon Rewell)

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Loading bank, Lowanna (Sharon Rewell)

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Lowanna NSW
View of the Railway  Station area


(Sharon Rewell)

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Lowanna (Sharon Rewell)

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The Railway Crane at Lowanna (Sharon Rewell)







Greg Lee:


That crane was electrically operated, and was installed not long before the line closed in 1972. Peviously there was a hand-operated crane at at Lowanna.

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Lowanna NSW
Railway Station, maybe on the other side of the railway station loading timber   My step Grandfather Albert Barbie ( Bert) pre 1959


(Sharon Rewell)

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Lowanna Railway Station NSW
From my mother's photo album


(Sharon Rewell)

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Lowanna Station (from the Glenreagh Mountain Railway page)

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Lowanna (Sharon Rewell)

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Lowanna in April 1954 (F Reed)