Lost Sydney: Disused Stations
The stations listed here are disused or demolishd railway stations on lines that are still in use. For stations on closed lines, see Closed Railway Lines.
Location: Eastern Suburbs, Sydney Woollahra Station is possibly the best example of a 'ghost station' in the entire metropolitan area of Sydney. The sight of a largely completed husk of a heavy railway station on the Eastern Suburbs railway line, surrounded by over-hanging trees, expensive inner-Sydney properties and curving and pleasant suburban streets is unusual for Sydney.
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Enfield South Platform is a former railway station on the Flemington-Campsie Goods Line in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. It was used by workers at the nearby Enfield Tarpaulin Factory and also signallers at the nearby Enfield South signal box. The factory was used by the railway to make tarpaulins for covering open wagons.
Hope St Platform was a railway-employee only station on the Flemington-Campsie Goods Line in Sydney, Australia that opened on 15 August 1927. Railway workers including shunters, drivers, fitters, etc. from the various railway workshops between Delec and Enfield South used Hope Street station to get to and from work. Hope Street is named because of its locality to a side street off Cosgrove Road near the station. The station and Up Main were closed when the rebuilt Enfield Yard opened in 1996.
Delec platform was a railway employee only platform located on the eastern side of Enfield Yard, on the Metropolitan Goods Line in Sydney, Australia. Prior to Enfield Yard being remodelled in 1996, Delec was on the Up Main Line. Both the New Up and Down main lines now run on the western side of Enfield Yard. The Station and Up Main closed in 1996 with the line now a shunting neck for Weston Flour Mill. The platform served the adjacent Delec Locomotive Depot. This facility closed in August 2008.
Site of Clyburn Station
Clyburn Railway Station is a demolished railway station in Sydney, Australia. It was a railway employee only island platform located between the Up and Down Suburban Lines, between Clyde and Auburn stations on Sydney's Southern. It served Clyde Yard on the up side of the line and the former NSWGR workshops on the down side. The station was demolished in 2010.
This station only had trains stopping at the beginning and ending of workshops work times but a lantern was in the stations awning for railway employees to "flag" down trains if they were working at other than normal workshop hours. Also there was a footbridge installed for railway employees to gain access to both Clyde Yard and the railway workshops, however this footbridge was dismantled due largely to safety issues in 2006.
There was no public access available. As part of the demolition of this station, the awnings, trees and top of the station were taken out on the week of 20 27 December 2009. Currently, only the station foundations and also station ground which connect stanchions to the earth are there at the station site.
Ferry terminal and original Milsons Point station, 1890s
The original Milsons Point station was not in its present location, but on the edge of Sydney Harbour approximately on the site of the present northern pylon of the Sydney Harbour Bridge and the North Sydney Olympic Pool. This location enabled passengers from the North Shore to transfer directly from steam trains to ferries to reach Circular Quay. It opened as the southern terminus of the North Shore railway line on 1 May 1893. when extended from its previous terminus at St Leonards (opened from Hornsby 1 January 1890). The site, squeezed between the rock cliffs and the edge of Sydney Harbour was cramped, with two side platforms, one of which was built on piles partly over the water's edge, and three tracks between, including a centre road. Immediately adjoining it to the west was the colonnaded Milsons Point ferry wharf for the ferry service to Circular Quay in the Sydney central business district and tram terminus for the North Sydney cable tramway (opened 22nd May 1886) and subsequently electrified from 11th February 1900.
In 1915, to enable a start on the construction of the Sydney Harbour Bridge between Milsons Point and Dawes Point, the Government instructed the Railway Commissioners to vacate the station and a new four platform, station was constructed at the site of the boundary fence between the present-day Luna Park and Lavender Bay Sidings. This station was in operation for just seven weeks, from 30 May 1915 to 18 July 1915, as the inconvenience to passengers transferring between ferries and trains was unacceptable. Due to later overcrowding, a third platform was added on 12th December 1920 by removing the centre road track and laying a new track on inland side of the new platform 2. This station remained in use until the site was requisitioned to allow construction of the Sydney Harbour Bridge.
From 27th April 1924, a new temporary station was brought into use, approximately 300 metres back along the line on the site of the present Lavender Bay car sidings, just beyond the present Luna Park amusement park. It was linked to the street by stairs and three escalators, and to a new adjacent ferry wharf. The escalators at Milsons Point were the first installed in Australia, one of which was transferred to Town Hall station when the temporary station closed. The line from Hornsby to Milsons Point was electrified from 2nd August 1927.
As part of the construction of the Sydney Harbour Bridge and relocation of the North Shore Line to extend across the bridge into the City, a new Milsons Point station was built on the northern approach to the bridge and opened on 19 March 1932. The new line's deviation is located just beyond Waverton Station on the North Sydney side. The original line was retained and is now used as a siding for the storage of trains used on the North Shore Line.
