Sawtell

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Type : Station
Line : North Coast Line
Distance from Sydney : 600.668km
Opened : 13 July 1925
Closed : n/a
Status : In use
Name meaning : After Mr Oswald C Sawtell for whom the platform was built
Notes : A 100 foot dead end siding on the up side of the line was brought into service on 18/03/1940, the siding could hold 4 four wheel trucks, it was removed on 8/11/1976. The original Up timber platform was 76.2 metres long with timber platform building. The new station is similar to Eungai and Urunga. 1928 - toilets installed. 1957 - electric lighting installed. 1959 - waiting room extended.

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Sawtell station on the North Coast on 17 December 1982. Like its neighbour Urunga it was also demolished in the early 1990s and replaced with a small unattended modern structure. (Peter Burr)

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Sawtell (undated) (Newcastle Rediscovered

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Sawtell, circa 1940

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The very spartan shelter at the current station

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Location of Sawtell station (Six Maps)

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NT33 at Sawtell, 24/9/22 (Christopher Dunkerley)

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N11 - North Coast Mail - at Sawtell 14/11/1984 (Neil Munro)

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N11 - North Coast Mail - at Sawtell 1/6/1983 (Neil Munro)

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Way and Works carriage sits in the 100' siding at Sawtell in May 1972 (Records NSW)

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Sawtell, Colin Sutton (1989)

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Titled "Bricks to build the new hotel" - Sawtell station, 1930 (Coffs Collection)

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Swatell, undated (probably late 70s, early 80s) (Peter Leonard)

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Sawtell, late 60s (Adrian Swift)