Bundanoon railway station is a heritage-listed railway station on the

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, Australia. It serves the small town of

Bundanoon Bundanoon is a town in the Southern Highlands of New South Wales, Australia, in Wingecarribee Shire, on Gandangarra and Dharawal Country (where these two countries meet). It is an Aboriginal name meaning "place of deep gullies" and was forme ...

. It was added to the

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on 2 April 1999.

History

The station opened on 6 August 1868 as Jordans Crossing, being renamed Jordans Siding in 1878 and finally Bundanoon in 1881. The station has a signal box on platform 2 which controls a set of points just to the north of the station. Until the 2005 timetable one afternoon train a day terminated using this setup, the train arriving on platform 1 using the set of points, and departing back towards Campbelltown. This practice was discontinued, the signal box and points closed and the route curtailed to end at

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. Bundanoon station celebrated 150 years since it opened on Sunday 5 August 2018.

Platforms & services

Bundanoon has two side platforms. It is serviced by early morning and evening

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services travelling between Sydney Central, Campbelltown,

and

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. During the day the station is served by a NSW TrainLink road coach service from

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and another operating from Moss Vale to Goulburn. It is also serviced by NSW Trainlink Xplorer long-distance services from Sydney to

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. This station is a request stop for this service, so the train stops only if passengers booked to board/alight here.

Transport links

Berrima Buslines operate one route via Bundanoon station: *813:

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Description

The station complex consists of a timber station building on the northbound platform () and another timber station building of an initial island side building design () with brick-faced platforms. It also contains a

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former toilet and shed (), timber

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ed signal box (1914) and timber parcels office, all situated on the platforms, and a 30'x15' corrugated iron goods shed of a side shed design.

Heritage listing

Bundanoon station and yard group is an excellent example of an early 20th century station complex with remnants of the early period of construction including the unusual and rare small goods shed. The original buildings for a small country location were expanded to take advantage of the holiday market in the early years of the century. The length of platforms indicate the relative importance of the station and the need for longer distance trains to stop here. The location of the site at a major intersection in the village of Bundanoon makes it an important visual element in the historic townscape that contributes significantly to the visual importance of the town. All of the listed elements contribute to the group and give a clear indication of the operation and style of a 1913 station group. Bundanoon railway station was listed on the

on 2 April 1999.

References

Attribution

External links

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Bundanoon station details
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