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Lue Railway Station
Lue railway station is a heritage-listed former railway station on the Gwabegar railway line at Lue, New South Wales, Lue, Mid-Western Regional Council, New South Wales, Australia. It was added to the New South Wales State Heritage Register on 2 April 1999. History Lue railway station opened on 10 September 1884 along with the extension of the railway from Rylstone, New South Wales, Rylstone to Mudgee. Passenger services were suspended from 2 December 1985 and the station formally closed from 18 March 1986, although freight services along the section of line continued until 1992. The line through Lue reopened for freight services on 2 September 2000; although the station itself was repainted by locals in preparation, it remained closed and boarded up, and all services on the section of line were suspended again on 30 June 2007. Description The station complex consists of a brick station building in a type 4 standard roadside third-class design with a brick platform, comp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lue, New South Wales
Lue is a small village in New South Wales, Australia. At the Census in Australia#2021, 2021 census, Lue had a population of 216. Lue is located on the now-closed Gwabegar railway line between the larger towns of Rylstone, New South Wales, Rylstone and Mudgee, about south-east of Mudgee. It is not on the main road, but the NSW TrainLink bus services from Gulgong detours several times a week to service Lue. Lue was prosperous after the opening of the railway to Mudgee in 1884, but declined from the 1930s. In 1921, leases taken up at the locality of Barigan and plans made to erect oil share retorts there; the oil that would have been produced was planned to be pumped through a pipeline to Lue railway station. Lue HotelanLue Potteryare businesses still in operation. The Lue railway station still exists and is heritage listed. A few kilometres from Lue on the Mudgee Road lies the historiHavilah homesteadwith its adjoininHavilah Memorial Church School Lue Public School Churches Ou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mid-Western Regional Council
The Mid-Western Regional Council is a Local government in Australia, local government area in the Central West, New South Wales, Central West region of New South Wales, Australia. The area is located adjacent to the Castlereagh Highway that passes through the middle of the area in an approximate southeast–northwest direction. Mid-Western Regional Council was proclaimed on 26 May 2004 and incorporates the whole of the former Mudgee Shire Council and parts of the former Merriwa, New South Wales, Merriwa and Rylstone Shires. The Mid-Western Regional Council also incorporated the area of the historic Wyaldra Shire, which was abolished in an earlier round of local government amalgamations. A historic building in Gulgong, built in 1910, served as the former shire headquarters. On 26 November 2004, it assumed the assets and operations of the former Mid-Western County Council. The mayor of Mid-Western Regional Council is Councillor, Cr. Des Kennedy, who is Independent (politician), una ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New South Wales
New South Wales (commonly abbreviated as NSW) is a States and territories of Australia, state on the Eastern states of Australia, east coast of :Australia. It borders Queensland to the north, Victoria (state), Victoria to the south, and South Australia to the west. Its coast borders the Coral Sea, Coral and Tasman Seas to the east. The Australian Capital Territory and Jervis Bay Territory are Enclave and exclave, enclaves within the state. New South Wales' state capital is Sydney, which is also Australia's most populous city. , the population of New South Wales was over 8.3 million, making it Australia's most populous state. Almost two-thirds of the state's population, 5.3 million, live in the Greater Sydney area. The Colony of New South Wales was founded as a British penal colony in 1788. It originally comprised more than half of the Australian mainland with its Western Australia border, western boundary set at 129th meridian east in 1825. The colony then also includ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Transport Asset Holding Entity
The Transport Asset Manager of New South Wales (TAM) is an agency of the Government of New South Wales under the ''Transport Administration Act 1988''. It was previously a state-owned corporation known as the Transport Asset Holding Entity of New South Wales (TAHE) which was established by converting and renaming RailCorp on 1 July 2020.Transport for NSW Annual Report 2016–17 page 142,237 , Transport for NSW, Retrieved 18 January 2018 During its time as a state-owned corporation, it was not an agency or division of . [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gwabegar Railway Line
The Gwabegar railway line is a railway line in the Central West and North West Slopes of New South Wales, Australia, which passes through the towns of Mudgee, Gulgong, Dunedoo, Coonabarabran Coonabarabran () is a town in Warrumbungle Shire that sits on the divide between the Central West and North West Slopes regions of New South Wales, Australia. At the 2021 census, the town had a population of 2,387, Material was copied from th ... and terminates at Gwabegar. The section from Wallerawang to Capertee was opened on 15 May 1882; the section from Capertee to Rylstone on 9 June 1884; the section from Rylstone to Mudgee on 10 September 1884; the section from Mudgee to Gulgong on 14 April 1909; the section from Gulgong to Dunedoo on 28 November 1910; the section from Dunedoo to Binnaway on 2 April 1917; the section from Binnaway to Coonabarabran on 11 June 1917; and the section from Coonabarabran to Gwabegar on 10 September 1923. Currently, the Gwabegar Line is operat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 Heritage Act 1977 and its 2010 amendments. The register is administered by the Heritage Council of NSW via Heritage NSW, a division of the Government of New South Wales Department of Planning and Environment. The register was created in 1999 and includes items protected by heritage schedules that relate to the State, and to regional and to local environmental plans. As a result, the register contains over 20,000 statutory-listed items in either public or private ownership of historical, cultural, and architectural value. Of those items listed, approximately 1,785 items are listed as significant items for the whole of New South Wales; with the remaining items of local or regional heritage value. The items include buildings, objects, monuments, A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rylstone, New South Wales
Rylstone is a small town in New South Wales, Australia, in the Central Tablelands region within the Mid-Western Regional Council local government area. It is located on the Bylong Valley Way road route. At the , Rylstone had a population of 904. Etymology The name 'Rylstone' has no clear origin; however, several possible origins are promoted. * Michael Hayes who built the Shamrock Hotel and other buildings at The Junction (where the Cudgegong River and Tong Bong Creek meet) claims responsibility. On travelling through the area he mentioned sleeping on 'that Ryle Stone' his Irish accent converting what was actually said 'Royal Stone' * A small village also known as Rylstone in Yorkshire, England is near to where wool was sent from properties in the Rylstone area. * Another tale suggests the Scots had a weapon called a Ryle Stone. This weapon being used when the Scots were at war with the Picts (England) and Scottish shepherds built their huts at the location of the current village ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mudgee
Mudgee () is a town in the Central West (New South Wales), Central West of New South Wales, Australia. It is in the broad fertile Cudgegong River valley north-west of Sydney and is the largest town in the Mid-Western Regional Council Local government in Australia, local government area as well as being the council seat. At the 2021 Census, its population was 11,457. The district lies across the edge of the Interim Biogeographic Regionalisation for Australia, geological structure known as the Sydney Basin. History Wiradjuri people The Mudgee and Dabee clans of the Wiradjuri people lived at and around the site of what is now the town of Mudgee on the Cudgegong River. Some cultural and tool-making sites of these Aboriginal people remain, including the Hands on the Rocks, The Drip and Babyfoot Cave sites. Significance of local names Many place-names in the region are derived from the original Wiradjuri language, including Mudgee itself, which was named by the Wiradjuri clan wh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rylstone Railway Station
Rylstone railway station was a railway station that served the small village of Rylstone in North Yorkshire, England. It was built by the Yorkshire Dales Railway and operated by the Midland Railway. The station opened on 29 July 1902 with a station building that was to the same design as most of the stations on the Derwent Valley Light Railway. The station had just one platform with a through line, with a goods shed and cattle dock to the east side, and a passing loop to the north of the station. The LMS closed the station to passengers in 1930, but special 'tourist trains' ran to Grassington & Threshfield via Rylstone up until 11 August 1969. Rylstone station has been demolished, but the line is still open to Swinden Quarry Swinden Quarry is north of the village of Cracoe, and south-west of Grassington in North Yorkshire, England. It is owned by LaFarge Tarmac. The former Skipton-Grassington railway line still serves this location, and in railway terminology, .... ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mudgee Railway Station
Mudgee railway station is a heritage-listed disused railway station on the Gwabegar railway line in Mudgee, New South Wales, Mudgee, Mid-Western Regional Council, New South Wales, Australia. It was designed by John Whitton and built from 1883 to 1884; the property was added to the New South Wales State Heritage Register on 2 April 1999. Though no trains run through the station, it is served by NSW TrainLink coaches running between Lithgow railway station and Coonabarabran. History Mudgee residents made representations during the planning of the Main Western railway line, New South Wales, Great Western Railway to have the line built from Newcastle, New South Wales, Newcastle to Singleton, New South Wales, Singleton and on to Mudgee. Bathurst, New South Wales, Bathurst, however, was successful in having the line extended from Penrith, New South Wales, Penrith, which was completed in 1876. The residents of Mudgee continued to lobby for their own line and formed a committee in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Capertee, New South Wales
Capertee ( ) is a village 46 km north of Lithgow, New South Wales, Australia. It is on an elevated site (808 metres) above the Capertee Valley. In 2016, the township had a population of 145 people. The Castlereagh Highway (previously known as the Mudgee Road) links Capertee with Lithgow to the south and Mudgee to the north. The township is surrounded by National Parks and grazing land. Principal employment is in coal mining, farming and tourism-related services. The Capertee Valley forms a part of the catchment area of the Hawkesbury River, but the village lies very close to the Great Divide watershed, with the Turon River catchment nearby to its west. History Prior to European settlement, the Capertee district was occupied by the Wiradjuri people. Early European explorers through the region were James Blackman in 1821, followed later the same year by William Lawson, seeking a practicable pass through the ranges to the pastoral lands to the north-west. By the ear ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
