Stratford

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Type : Station
Line : North Coast Line
Distance from Sydney : 294.521km
Opened : 5 February 1913
Closed : 9 September 1978
Status : Closed
Name meaning : After an area near London, UK
Notes : The Up side platform was 76.2 metres long with a store, general and ladies waiting rooms. By 1961 the platform had been reduced to 15.2 metres. A 5 tonne yard crane was provided and prior to 1919 a private tramway had been built to the station (likely for timber).

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NR72 waits at Stratford for NT25 to pass 7/6/97 (uncredited)

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3237 bounding through Stratford on Saturday morning, 2nd August 1969 (George Stevens)

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Vintage train to Gloucester at Stratford, 9/2/1963 (50th anniversary special) (State Archives)

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Robert Selman:

When I first started university in 1995, and was catching the North Coast XPT quite often, I remember that besides the regular platforms I would see along the way, that Stratford had a little temporary platform, complete with nameboard. I was later told that once a year, a huge group of Boy Scouts would disembark there, for some camping activity. By the time I stopped getting the North Coast XPT regularly, in 1999, that temporary platform was gone

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A view from NT-36, on 26-7-2005, the Sydney bound XPT from Grafton, at km. 295.060, between Berrico and Craven (near former station of Stratford) Flowers can be seen on the fence rails at the level crossing, placed there by a mother in memory of her young son, killed at the crossing some ten years earlier. (Graeme Kirkby)