Stockinbingal is a town in the
South West Slopes and
Riverina
The Riverina ()
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regions of
New South Wales
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,
Australia
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. The town is in the
Cootamundra–Gundagai Regional Council local government area and on the
Burley Griffin Way. At the , Stockinbingal had a population of 374.
[
Stockinbingal Post Office opened on 16 May 1891.]
Railways
The town is the location of a railway junction connecting the Cootamundra
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to Lake Cargelligo railway line (completed to Stockinbingal in 1893) to Parkes. It provides an alternative route from Sydney
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to Parkes to that over the Blue Mountains, avoiding the steep grades of the Blue Mountains route and is, consequently, the major route for freight between Sydney and Perth
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. The route from Cootamundra to Stockinbingal and Parkes is also part of a rail bypass of Sydney
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for traffic between Melbourne
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and Brisbane
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via Dubbo
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The city is located at the intersection of the ...
, Werris Creek
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and Maitland.
Yeo Yeo
Stockinbingal is the closest town to the Yeo Yeo district, where the Bradman family had a farm and where cricketer Don Bradman
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lived as a child. The shell of the old Yeo Yeo schoolhouse can be seen a few kilometres from town, on the road to Wallendbeen.
See also
* Stockinbingal–Parkes railway line
* Stockinbingal railway station
Gallery
File:Commercial Hotel Stockinbingal.JPG, Commercial Hotel, Stockinbingal, 2010
File:Stockinbingal Bank of New South Wales.JPG, Former Bank of New South Wales, 2010
File:Stockinbingal Hotel.JPG, Former Stockinbingal Hotel, 2010
File:Schoolhouse Yeo Yeo.jpg, Old schoolhouse in Yeo Yeo district, now a farm outbuilding, 2019
References
External links
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Towns in New South Wales
Cootamundra-Gundagai Regional Council