Yelgun

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Type : Station
Line : Murwillumbah Branch
Distance from Sydney : 908.182km
Opened : 15 October 1922
Closed : 1972
Status : Closed
Name meaning : Aboriginal word for "the sun"
Notes : Location moved by 11.8 metres. Construction name was Dirty Flat. The Up platform was 74 metres long, later reduced to 13.1 metres. On 30/9/1922 a sleeper built cream platform was built for the Dirty Flat Progress Association. 

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Loading bananas in the 1920s at Dirty Flat for delivery to Yelgun Station

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Location of Yelgun platform (Six Maps)

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Line near Yelgun, 1937 (State Archives)

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3017 departing Yelgun (undated)