Heritage listed Merriwa Railway Station - built 1917

Residents of Merriwa and surrounding districts had began agitating for rail services to Merriwa from as early as 1887 but it wasn’t until 1910 that a branch line of 46 miles 40 chains from Muswellbrook was recommended by the Public Works Committee of the NSW Government. The Enabling Act was passed in November 1911 and work commenced on the new line in June 1912. The branch line was constructed using day labour, reaching Denman in April 1915, but did not reach Merriwa for another two years, being completed and opened in October 1917. Both the station building and corrugated iron goods shed were provided in 1917 along with the railway stockyard which was designed in 1913 and probably built by c1917 (Bettington, 1975; SRA, 1993; Ward, 2009).The new timetable to Merriwa initially included a tri-weekly service for passenger and goods traffic. The local Canning Works was an early and significant user of the new railway and an important source of revenue for the railways. The extent and exact type of goods traffic on this line is unknown, however the transportation of livestock was significant, with a large railway stockyard for sheep and cattle operating at Merriwa until the c1980's. Rail services to Merriwa were suspended in December 1988, as part of a state-wide rationalisation of rail services in NSW in the 1980's.

Info source:
www.hms.heritage.nsw.gov.au/App/Item/ViewItem?itemId=3150016

Taken in: Australia / New South Wales / Merriwa (show map)

Taken on: October 14, 2019

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Camera: Olympus E-M1X, f/7.1, 1/800 sec, 41mm (=82mm), ISO 400 (more info) (hide info)

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Focal Length:	41mm (35mm equivalent: 82mm)
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Flash:	On, Did not fire
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