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| Former railway station ←Mullumbimby · Lismore→ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Location | Jonson Street, Byron Bay | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Coordinates | 28°38′40″S153°36′42″E / 28.6445°S 153.6116°ECoordinates: 28°38′40″S153°36′42″E / 28.6445°S 153.6116°E | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Owned by | RailCorp | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Operated by | NSW TrainLink | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Line(s) | Murwillumbah | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Distance | 882.66 kilometres from Central | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Platforms | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Tracks | 2 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Structure type | Ground | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Disabled access | Yes | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Opened | 15 May 1894 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Closed | 16 May 2004 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Byron Bay railway station is a former railway station located on the Murwillumbah line in Byron Bay, New South Wales, Australia. It opened on 15 May 1894 and closed on 16 May 2004, when the line from Casino was closed. The station complex was built from 1894 to 1913. The property is owned by RailCorp, an agency of the Government of New South Wales. It was added to the New South Wales State Heritage Register on 2 April 1999.[1][2][3]
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Station today[edit]
Despite no longer being served by trains, the station remains open as a NSW TrainLink booking office. A pub occupies a building at the southern end of the platform.[4]
The station forecourt is served by NSW TrainLink coach services to Grafton, Casino, Tweed Heads, Surfers Paradise and Brisbane,[5]Greyhound Australia services to Brisbane, and Sydney,[6] and Premier Motor Service services to Brisbane, Lismore and Sydney.[7]
It is also serviced by minibus operators to Ballina, Gold Coast and Brisbane Airports[8][9] and local bus operators Ballina Buslines and Blanch's Bus Company.[10][11]
The Byron Bay Railroad Company commenced a rail service to Byron Bay with a 660/720 class railcar from its resort three kilometres north of the town in December 2017.[12][13] However, it does not extend to the existing station, terminating north of the Lawson Street level crossing.[14][15][16]
Description[edit]
The heritage-listed complex includes a timber station building in a type 4 timber standard roadside design with a brick-faced platform that was completed in 1894. A timber shed was also completed in 1894, while a timber skillion roofed signal box was completed in 1913. A water tower on Butler Street with a brick base and rivetted iron tank also dates from c. 1894.
Platforms and services[edit]
Byron Bay had one platform, with a passing loop and siding at the northern end of the station. It was served by trains from Sydney including the North Coast Mail until 1973 when replaced by the Gold Coast Motorail which in February 1990 was replaced by an XPT service.[17]
Heritage listing[edit]
Byron Bay station group is a coherent group of railway buildings with good detailing and containing a number of unusual features including the round water tank on a brick base and the railway hotel attached to the station building. The station building is an excellent example of the timber standard roadside type and the location of the station and residence in the main street of Byron bay contribute in a significant way to the streetscape of the town. The water tank is one of two tanks of this design known to survive and is therefore of high significance.[1]
Byron Bay railway station was listed on the New South Wales State Heritage Register on 2 April 1999 having satisfied the following criteria.[1]
The place possesses uncommon, rare or endangered aspects of the cultural or natural history of New South Wales.
This item is assessed as historically rare. This item is assessed as scientifically rare. This item is assessed as arch. rare. This item is assessed as socially rare.[1]
See also[edit]
References[edit]
| Wikimedia Commons has media related to Byron Bay railway station. |
- ^ abcd'Byron Bay Railway Station and yard group'. New South Wales State Heritage Register. Office of Environment and Heritage. H01107. Retrieved 2 June 2018.
- ^Byron Bay Station NSWRail.net
- ^Closure of the Casino to Murwillumbah rail serviceArchived 2016-03-04 at the Wayback Machine NSW Parliament November 2004
- ^About the RailsArchived 2014-12-25 at the Wayback Machine The Rail Byron Bay
- ^'North Coast timetable'. NSW Trainlink. 7 September 2019.
- ^Timetables Greyhound Australia
- ^Timetables Premier Motor Service
- ^Home Byron Easy Bus
- ^Home Xcede
- ^Timetables Ballina Buslines
- ^Timetables Blanch's Bus Company
- ^World first solar train now leaving the platform in Byron Bay with zero emissionsABC News 17 December 2017
- ^Solar train enters service in Byron BayRail Express 18 December 2017
- ^Movement at the station - light rail for Byron Bay?ABC News 6 May 2015
- ^A 3km train line could be serving Byron Bay by the end of the yearGold Coast Bulletin 19 May 2015
- ^Byron Bay Train North Byron Beach Resort
- ^'The New Timetable' Railway Digest March 1990 page 94
Attribution[edit]
This Wikipedia article contains material from Byron Bay Railway Station and yard group, entry number 01107 in the New South Wales State Heritage Register published by the State of New South Wales and Office of Environment and Heritage 2018 under CC-BY 4.0licence, accessed on 2 June 2018.
Northern New South Wales highway shut as Myall Creek bushfire threatens homes
A large stretch of the main highway servicing the New South Wales north coast was closed on November 22 as an emergency warning was issued for a huge bushfire in the area. Credit: NSW RFS – Northern Rivers Zone via Storyful
Footage of the Myall Creek fire.Source:News Regional Media
Police have issued a warning to thousands of NSW teens getting ready to road trip to Byron Bay, reminding them of “significant” road closures due to bushfires.
The Pacific Highway remains closed between Woodburn and Woombah due to the Myall Creek Road bushfire in the Richmond Valley and Summerland Way also remains closed between Casino and Grafton.
Emergency services are asking to please delay all non-essential travel in the area.
“If you need to travel between Grafton and Ballina, motorists are being asked to use the Gwydir Highway, the New England Highway and the Bruxner Highway instead,” police said in a statement.
Footage of the Myall Creek fire.Source:News Regional Media
This alternative will add about 3.5 hours extra to the trip, and is not suitable for B-doubles.
Thousands of teenagers are expected to make their way to Byron Bay and the Gold Coast today for Schoolies celebrations.
“These main roads could be closed for some time, and other routes could also be closed at short notice due to bushfire conditions,” police advised.
A scene from the fire burning at Myall Creek Road in Bora Ridge earlier this week.Source:Supplied
QUEENSLAND LIFTS EMERGENCY DECLARATION
Queensland’s bushfire emergency declaration has been lifted from all parts of the state following two weeks of ferocious fire conditions and the loss of 20 homes.
The declaration was imposed on November 9 as firefighters battled more than 50 bushfires and thousands of people were evacuated from the path of an out of control blaze on the Sunshine Coast.
One home was lost in the Cooroibah fire, near Noosa. Another 15 were destroyed at Cobraball, in central Queensland, and four at Ravensbourne on the Darling Downs in the days since.
“Over the last few weeks, our state has been in the grips of some very severe and challenging fire weather,” Queensland Fire and Emergency Services acting-commissioner Mike Wassing said in a statement.
“While conditions have eased slightly, and the bushfire danger has fallen .. (allowing the declaration to be lifted), we still have significant blazes that continue to burn.”
Today, 58 fires continue to burn across the state, however, none are at emergency levels.
Despite this, authorities have reintroduced local fire bans across the southern half of the state.
Under a local fire ban, all open fires are prohibited and all previously issued permits to light a fire are cancelled.
“Now is not the time to be complacent - conditions are still dry and there isn’t significant rainfall expected in Queensland in the immediate future,” acting-commissioner Wassing said.
Council officers are assessing trees and cleaning up around roads and structures to safely reopen roads in the coming days.
Queensland Fire and Emergency Services at the Pechey bushfire.Source:News Corp Australia
VICTORIA BATTLES REMOTE FOREST FIRES
Further south in Victoria, firefighters are hoping mild weekend conditions will help them control blazes caused by lightning in remote patches of forest in the state’s northeast.
About 30 fires were still burning in Victoria on Friday afternoon, 20 of them located in hard-to-reach forested areas of the state’s northeast.
Forest Fire Management Victoria said aircraft including big air tankers from Canberra and Sydney are being used to fight the forest blazes.
“The aim is to get on top of them with the milder conditions,” the authority’s Hume deputy chief fire officer Aaron Kennedy said.
Two large air tankers from NSW are assisting with the fires in the North East of the state. Sharing resources when they are needed most is another way we work together with our neighbouring states to support each other through the fire season. #weworkasone#vicfirespic.twitter.com/CZEJ9RoWlb
— VicEmergency (@vicemergency) November 22, 2019More than 50 firefighting trucks, dozers and other heavy plant were also set to work yesterday to build containment lines and deal with dangerous trees.
But the remoteness of the fires isn’t making their job easy.
“There is a lot of work to do in very difficult conditions,” Mr Kennedy said.
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More than 150 blazes burned across Victoria on Thursday, when record-breaking temperatures and strong winds lashed the state.
The CFA believes lightning or campfires started many of them.
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Melbourne broke a 100-year-old temperature record for November on Thursday, with the mercury hitting 40.9C and creeping well into the 40s in the Mallee region and northern country towns.
Temperatures cooled on Friday, with emergency services now turning their attention to Monday when the temperature and fire risk are set to rise again, a CFA spokesman told AAP.
On Monday temperatures are expected to reach the high 30s in the state’s north — the driest part of the state — and 32C in central Melbourne.
NSW FIRES ADD TO SYDNEY’S ‘APOCALYPTIC’ SKY
New South Wales also had its fair share of wild weather earlier this week.
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Yesterday, Sydney’s CBD was plunged into “apocalyptic” darkness midafternoon and lightning strikes lit up U2’s concert in the city on a day of remarkable weather conditions in the NSW capital.
The city was eerily dark by 5pm yesterday ahead of the thunderstorms as storm clouds mixed with the lingering smoke from NSW bushfires that had settled across the city, including from one blaze at nearby Gospers Mountain.
Eerie weather hit Sydney yesterday. Picture: Monique HarmerSource:News Corp Australia
Thousands of homes on Sydney’s lower north shore lost power as thunderstorms affected the region’s electricity grid yesterday.
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The Bureau of Meteorology said the thunderstorms began brewing in the Blue Mountains yesterday afternoon, as moisture from the north met with triggers such as converging winds.
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With AAP