North Coast Mail

The North Coast Mail was an Australian passenger train that ran from

Sydney Sydney ( ) is the capital city of the state of New South Wales, and the most populous city in both Australia and Oceania. Located on Australia's east coast, the metropolis surrounds Sydney Harbour and extends about towards the Blue Mountain ...

via the North Coast line to Grafton until October 1985. It ran to

Murwillumbah Murwillumbah ( ) is a town in far north-eastern New South Wales, Australia, in the Tweed Shire, on the Tweed River. Sitting on the south eastern foothills of the McPherson Range in the Tweed Volcano valley, Murwillumbah is 848 km north-eas ...

until April 1973 when replaced by the ''

Gold Coast Motorail The Gold Coast Motorail was an Australian passenger train operated by the Public Transport Commission from March 1973 until February 1990. It operated from Sydney via the North Coast line to Murwillumbah. It departed Central railway station i ...

'' north of Grafton. It was the last New South Wales train to convey a travelling post office, this ceasing in August 1985."Melbourne-Sydney Standard Gauge Relief Trains" ''

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