Telarah

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Station

Distance from Sydney : 194.739km
Opened : 14 August 1911 as West Maitland Marshalling Yard, 15 April 1922 renamed Telarah
Closed : n/a
Status : In use
Name meaning : after Telarah House, an adjacent property
Notes : 132 metre Up side platform. 31/8/1914 interlocking introduced. 10/4/1916 trucking yards built. 30/6/1922 passenger platform with waiting shed and awning erected (this was the same year that a request was made for the Kempsey Mail to stop at the station). 1937 - electric lights added. 1945 - Lamp Room added at Down end of yard. 11/4/1945 - central interlocked loop installed. 1947 - crossing loop added. 24/1/1956 - triangle to Great North opened. Station rebuilt 1997.

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Undated photo of Telarah prior to modernisation (uncredited)

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Visit of Flying Scotsman Locomotive, 4 March 1989 at Telarah Signal.

This photograph was taken by Brian R Andrews of Killingworth, NSW.

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Telarah (Allan Sharp, 1982)

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Telarah (1982, Warren Banfield)

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Telarah (1984, uncredited)

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Telarah in 2014 (no copyright)

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   The surviving sections of the former Telarah station building at Pelaw Main. (1997 (flickr)

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Telarah (4/3/89) (flickr)

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Telarah (Stephen Miller)

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Telarah from NT35 24/4/2021 (Lance Lyon)

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3AB7 behind 48120-48136-4490 have arrived at Telarah while 761-661 Newcastle service waits to depart. 4454 is in the yard. 9-7-1992

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Facilities at Telarah early 1980s - rather primitive to say the least!

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Telarah in the early 1980s

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Telarah derailment, 7.2.1965 (Ken Magor)