Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Stanwell Park railway station is located on the South Coast railway line in New South Wales, Australia. It serves the seaside village of Stanwell Park opening on 23 December 1901, relocating to its current location on 10 October 1920.
Stanwell Park is serviced by Stanwell Park railway station on the South Coast railway line. The railway bends around the village and crosses Stanwell Creek on a historic brick viaduct . Bald Hill, at the apex of Lawrence Hargrave Drive, takes in the views of the Northern Illawarra and the escarpment .
The Otford Railway Tunnel opened on 3 October 1888. The single line connection was made at (old) Stanwell Park Station (now bypassed by the 1915 Stanwell Park Deviation). [4] The tunnel was built of brick arched form and when built was the largest and steepest (5,985 feet or 1,824 metres long and 1 in 40 gradient) on the system. [4]
This is list of railway stations operated by Sydney Trains and Sydney Metro in the Australian city of Sydney and ... Stanwell Park: 32,800 258: Kotara: 30,990 259 ...
The old route's ruling grade of 1 in 40 was faced by up (Sydney bound) trains almost all the way between Stanwell Park station and Otford. Although the new route was 5 kilometres (3.1 mi) longer it reduced the ruling grade from 1 in 40 to around 1 in 80. [4] Many stations in this section were closed or rebuilt on the new alignment
The Stanwell Creek railway viaduct is a heritage-listed railway bridge on the Illawarra railway line at Stanwell Park, City of Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia.It was designed by the New South Wales Government Railways and built in 1920 by day labour.
Otford, Stanwell Tops Stanwell Park: SWP 56.0 km 4 min Stanwell Park Coalcliff: CCF 59.3 km 6 min Coalcliff Scarborough: SWP 62.5 km 5 min Scarborough, Clifton Wombarra: WMJ 64.4 km 3 min Wombarra Coledale: COL 66.2 km 3 min Coledale Austinmer: AUR 68.6 km 3 min Austinmer Thirroul: TRL 70.2 km 2 min Thirroul Bulli: BUI 72.2 km 2 min Bulli Woonona
The difficult geological formation of the Illawarra escarpment created many problems for the railway engineers and contractors in building the single line from Waterfall railway station to the (Old) Stanwell Park station so that when it opened in 1888 it was nearly two years after the opening of the southern part of the line to Bombo.