Crabbes Creek

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Type : Station
Line : Murwillumbah Branch
Distance from Sydney : 911.073km
Opened : 24 December 1894 as Mooball (1st site) - changed to Crabbes Creek January 1895.
Closed : 28th June 1975
Status : Closed
Name meaning : Likely after a local settler as the name is taken from the creek nearby.
Notes : The Down platform was 67 metres long.

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Site of the old Crabbes Creek railway station. Old siding and cement slabs what's left of the cane transfer point. The rest lost in the bush or built over by the motor way. (John Grocott)

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Crabbes Creek, early 1900s (Tweed Museum)

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Location of Crabbes Creek station (Six Maps)

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Crabbes Creek, 1968

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Crabbes Creek area, 2008 (no copyright restrictions)

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Burringbar #2 bridge (Crabbes Creek) (1896) (State Archives)

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Crabbes Creek, 14/06/1910 (State Archives)

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Crabbes Creek (undated)

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Simplex cane engine at Crabbes Creek, 1959

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Crabbes Creek, September 1968

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Loading cane at Crabbes Creek (undated, uncredited, colourised B&W image)

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Undated shot of Crabbes Creek (McCarthy Collection)

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Crabbes Creek, early 1900s

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Elevated view of Crabbe's Creek platform and cane transfer-loading facility - photographed by Peter Neve on 26.11.1974.