Murwillumbah

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Murwillumbah, circa 1950 (SLNSW)

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Plans for various buildings at Murwillumbah

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Done some checks on when the Murwillumbah platform was extended in late 1980s.

The late 1980s saw significant Murwillumbah track changes as the earlier MotoRail shunting procedures was cumbersome and involved an extra shunting locomotive, beside the MotoRail locomotives. The February 1986 Railway Digest indicated changes were afoot to simplify the MotoRail shunting as it listed a tender for the construction of a 200 metre platform extension for Murwillumbah Station. The 200 metre included extensions at both ends. These changes later included a new car unloading siding between the platform and the Tweed Valley Way, previously the Pacific Highway. The October 1988 Railway Digest reported the new MotoRail siding was available from 8 August 1988 and the previous shunter, rail tractor X217, was withdrawn, being noted on a well wagon at Grafton on 27 September 1988. The new system was very straightforward! Once the train had arrived from Sydney, the car carrying wagons were uncoupled from the carriages behind them and drawn forward by the train's locomotives past the points leading into the new siding, then simply propelled back into the unloading siding.

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1st Gold Coast Motorail Express at Murwillumbah, April 1973 (Records NSW)

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Murwillumbah, 1929

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1966, Murwillumbah (Munro Collection)

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Postcard - Crown Studios Sydney - Murwillumbah station

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Murwillumbah, undated

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Loading bananas at Murwillumbah, circa 1910 (Tweed Museum)

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Murwillumbah Railway Station 09/11/2023. (David Brill)

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August 1964 of special train trip  - Condong, Murwillumbah. Lee-Ann Keefer

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4847 Murwillumbah 01-73 (Leon Batman)

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48165+48xx Murwillumbah C2004 (Leon Batman)

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Class leader 4401 and a 45 class under the watchful eye of Wollumbin, Murwillumbah mid 1980s. They have a load of flyash, for the cement plant. (Chris Sim)

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3326 rests overnight at Muwillumbah. Friday 25.04.1969. Photo: Peter Neve.