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Casino railway station is a heritage-listed railway station on the North Coast line in
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, Australia. Opening on 22 September 1930, it serves the town of
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. It was added to the
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on 2 April 1999.


History

The original Casino railway station (now named
Old Casino railway station Old Casino railway station is a heritage-listed former railway station and now museum on the Murwillumbah railway line at Casino, New South Wales, Casino, Richmond Valley Council, New South Wales, Australia. It was built from 1903. The proper ...
) opened on 19 October 1903 when the Murwillumbah line was extended from Lismore, ultimately reaching Grafton in 1905. However, when the North Coast line was extended from
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to the
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border, it would not pass through the Old Casino railway station, as that segment of the line would become a branch line to the new mainline. So it was necessary to build a new mainline station to serve Casino. The new Casino railway station opened on 22 September 1930. The station originally was an island platform. In October 1990, the eastern platform was decommissioned, later being filled in and redeveloped as a coach stop. The Murwillumbah line branches off immediately North of the station, although it has not been used since 2004, the track is still in place and a short distance at Casino is used for occasional shunting movements. Casino had a locomotive depot with a roundhouse until it closed on 25 July 1986. It reopened in 1996 when it was leased to Northern Rivers Railroad."The Northern Rivers Railroad" ''Railway Digest'' December 1996 page 28


Platforms and services

Casino has one platform with a passing loop. Each day the station is served by a northbound XPT service to
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and a southbound service to
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. In addition a daily XPT to/from Sydney terminates at Casino. NSW TrainLink also operate coach services from the station to
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, Robina,
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.


Description

The heritage-listed complex includes a type 13 brick station building with brick platform (completed in 1930), brick refreshment rooms (completed 1930) and a standard 1915 design roundhouse (completed 1933). Structures at the station include the water
column A column or pillar in architecture and structural engineering is a structural element that transmits, through compression, the weight of the structure above to other structural elements below. In other words, a column is a compression member ...
in locomotive depot yard, steel water tank with column attached, 75' turntable (completed 1933) and timber and steel 'Harmon' coal stage (completed 1956). A fibro elevated signal box (1946) was demolished in 2012. Casino railway station waiting room.jpg


Heritage listing

Casino station group is an imposing and significant group of buildings in a major country location. The station building is one of the largest standard buildings and with the adjacent refreshment rooms constructed at the same time form the best surviving later period station groups in the state. The locomotive facilities are of high significance, particularly the timber coal loader, which is the last of several of these unique structures on the rail system. Casino railway station was listed on the
New South Wales State Heritage Register The New South Wales State Heritage Register, also known as NSW State Heritage Register, is a heritage list of places in the state of New South Wales, Australia, that are protected by New South Wales legislation, generally covered by the Heritag ...
on 2 April 1999 having satisfied the following criteria. 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 architecturally rare. This item is assessed as socially rare.


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Casino station details
Transport for New South Wales {{Transport for New South Wales railway stations, North Coast Region=y, state=collapsed Easy Access railway stations in New South Wales Railway stations in Australia opened in 1915 Regional railway stations in New South Wales New South Wales State Heritage Register Casino, New South Wales Murwillumbah railway line North Coast railway line, New South Wales