Temple Court railway station

Temple Court is the site of a closed railway station platform on the Main North railway line on the outskirts of the Hunter Region town of Murrurundi in New South Wales, Australia. The station was opened in late April 1878[1] and closed in 1975. No trace of it remains.[2]

A Kerosene shale deposit had been located in early 1862 but the difficult terrain of the Liverpool Ranges provided transport problems. In 1871 a shale mine was started north of the area at Mount Temi. This was re-visited in 1884 but not until a loop siding, north of Temple Court, was constructed in 1910 was a short rail line to the mine discharge constructed.[3][4]

References

  1. ↑ "Advertising.". The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser (NSW : 1843 - 1893) (NSW: National Library of Australia). 27 April 1878. p. 1. Retrieved 27 September 2015.
  2. ↑ Bozier, Rolfe. "Temple Court Platform". NSWrail.net. Retrieved 2014-09-15.
  3. ↑ Pells, P. J. N; Hammon, Philip J (2009), The burning mists of time : a technological and social history of mining in Katoomba, WriteLight, pp. 45–47, ISBN 978-0-9775639-6-8
  4. ↑ Eardley, Gifford H. (Gifford Henry); Stephens, Eric M., (author.) (2015), The shale railways of New South Wales, Redfern, NSW Australian Railway Historical Society New South Wales Division, pp. 211–222, ISBN 978-0-9807721-8-0
Preceding station   NSW Main lines   Following station
towards Wallangarra
Main North Line
towards Sydney

Coordinates: 31°45′55″S 150°50′05″E / 31.76528°S 150.83472°E / -31.76528; 150.83472

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