Sandy Hollow is a small rural town in

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Muswellbrook Shire Muswellbrook Shire is a local government area in the Upper Hunter region of New South Wales, Australia. The Shire is situated adjacent to the New England Highway and the Hunter railway line. Muswellbrook Shire was established on 1 July 1979 fro ...

. The town is located on the

Golden Highway Golden Highway is a highway, located in the Hunter Region, Hunter and Orana (New South Wales), Orana regions of New South Wales, Australia. It runs eastwards from Dubbo towards Newcastle, New South Wales, Newcastle on the coast, allowing roa ...

in the far west of the Upper

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, about 260 km north of

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 ...

It is located around halfway between

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and Merriwa, 1 km west of the intersection of the Golden Highway and the

Bylong Valley Way Bylong Valley Way is a New South Wales country road linking the Golden Highway near Sandy Hollow to the Castlereagh Highway near Ilford. It is named after the Bylong Valley, through which the road passes. Route In conjunction with the Bathurs ...

. It is the junction point of the Merriwa and Sandy Hollow – Ulan railway lines, and a railway station was open between 1917 and 1973.Sandy Hollow station
NSWrail.net, accessed 7 April 2010 Services currently provided include a hotel, caravan park with pool, a service station and combined post office agency which sells eat in and takeaway meals. It also has a community hall, a small public school, sculpture surrounded coffee house and emporium selling gift ware. It is situated close to the Goulburn River and the nearby Giants Creek flows close to the town.

History

The town began as a traveller's campsite on the junction of the Goulburn River Valley and Halls Creek. A route for a railway line between Maryvale and Sandy Hollow was surveyed in 1918. Work began in 1941, stopped during WWII, resumed in 1946 but was ceased in 1950. A coal mine was opened in Ulan in 1977, work was completed on a line to transport coal to Newcastle in 1982. Oil bearing shale was trucked from a mine at

Baerami Creek Baerami Creek, a partly perennial stream of the Hunter River (New South Wales), Hunter River catchment, is located in the Hunter Region, Hunter region of New South Wales, Australia. Course The Baerami Creek rises on the northern slopes of the J ...

to refining retorts at Sandy Hollow in the 1940s but was closed after WWII as uneconomical.

Notable people

Stephen Gageler Stephen John Gageler (; born 5 July 1958) is a Justice of the High Court of Australia. He was previously a barrister based in Sydney and the Solicitor-General of Australia, the Commonwealth's second-ranking law officer. Early life and education ...

High Court judge, since 2012

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Suburbs of Muswellbrook Shire Towns in the Hunter Region {{MuswellbrookShire-geo-stub

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