Macksville railway station

Preceding station	NSW TrainLink			Following station
Nambucca Heads towards Grafton or Casino		NSW TrainLink North Coast Line Grafton & northbound Casino XPTs		Eungai towards Sydney
		NSW TrainLink North Coast Line Southbound Brisbane & Casino XPTs		Kempsey towards Sydney
Urunga towards Brisbane		NSW TrainLink North Coast Line Northbound Brisbane XPT		Kempsey One-way operation

Macksville railway station is a heritage-listed railway station located on the North Coast line in Macksville, Nambucca Shire, New South Wales, Australia. The station serves the town of Macksville, and opened on 1 July 1919 when the line was extended from Kempsey.^[1] The station is also known as Macksville Railway Station group. The property was added to the New South Wales State Heritage Register on 2 April 1999.^[2][3]

Platforms and services

Macksville has one platform. Each day northbound XPT services operate to Grafton, Casino and Brisbane, with three southbound services operating to Sydney.^[4] There is a connecting bus service to Nambucca Heads.^[5] This station is a request stop for the northbound Brisbane XPT and the southbound Casino XPT, so these services stop here only if passengers have booked to board/alight here. A goods yard and passing loop were formerly opposite the station, until disconnected in June 2012.^[6]

Description

The complex comprises a type 11 station building, completed in 1919; and concrete and steel platform faces, also completed in 1919.^[2]

Heritage listing

Macksville is a modest site with a timber station building. It is typical of many small stations throughout the State and is a very good representative example of a north coast line station building and site.^[2]

Macksville railway station was listed on the New South Wales State Heritage Register on 2 April 1999 having satisfied the following criteria.^[2]

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 architecturally rare. This item is assessed as socially rare.^[2]

See also

1. ^ "Macksville Station". NSWrail.net. n.d.
2. ^ ^{a b c d e} "Macksville Railway Station group". New South Wales State Heritage Register. Department of Planning & Environment. H01184. Retrieved 2 June 2018. Text is licensed by State of New South Wales (Department of Planning and Environment) under CC-BY 4.0 licence.
3. ^ "Macksville Railway Station". New South Wales State Heritage Register. Department of Planning & Environment. Text is licensed by State of New South Wales (Department of Planning and Environment) under CC-BY 4.0 licence.
4. ^ "North Coast timetable". NSW TrainLink. 7 September 2019.
5. ^ "| transportnsw.info". transportnsw.info. Retrieved 18 March 2024.
6. ^ "North Coast News - Macksville Yard Rationalistaion" Railway Digest August 2013 page 15

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