Gwabegar railway line

Gwabegar railway line
Merrygoen Station in 2011
Overview
Owner	Transport Asset Holding Entity
Termini	Wallerawang Gwabegar
Service
Operator(s)	ARTC, UGL CRN
History
Opened	10 September 1923 (1923-09-10)
Technical
Line length	431.7 km (268.2 mi)
Track gauge	1,435 mm (4 ft 8+1⁄2 in)
Route map Legend km 171.9 Wallerawang Main Western line Irondale Pipers Flat Portland Portland Cement Works Cullen Bullen Invincible Colliery 193.7 Baal Bone Junction 200.3 Baal Bone Colliery Ben Bullen Capertee Tunnel 207.4 Capertee Airly Loop Junction Airly Loop Torbane Excelsior Weenga Carlos Gap Carlos Gap Tunnel Vulcan Clandulla Charbon Charbon Colliery Jn Charbon Colliery Kandos Cement Works 249.3 Kandos 257.2 Rylstone Mortonmain Lue Havilah Mount Knowles Mount Frome 308.1 Mudgee Munna Cudgegong River Pipeclay Creek Warrobil Sandy Hollow - Gulgong line 340.6 Gulgong Wialdra Creek Bridge Puggoon Tallawang Birriwa Coolah Branch Craboon Dunedoo Liamena Towealgra Wongoni Troy Junction - Merrygoen line 417.8 Merrygoen Neilrex Mooren Piambra Binnaway - Werris Creek line Binnaway grain sidings 458.7 Binnaway Murrawal Deringulla Ulamambri 508.3 Coonabarabran Yearinan Bugaldie Wittenbra 563.8 Baradine Kenebri Merebene Baradine Creek 603.6 Gwabegar This diagram: view talk edit

The Gwabegar railway line is a railway line in the Central West and North West Slopes of New South Wales, Australia, which passes through the towns of Mudgee, Gulgong, Dunedoo, Coonabarabran and terminates at Gwabegar.

The section from Wallerawang to Capertee was opened on 15 May 1882; the section from Capertee to Rylstone on 9 June 1884; the section from Rylstone to Mudgee on 10 September 1884; the section from Mudgee to Gulgong on 14 April 1909; the section from Gulgong to Dunedoo on 28 November 1910; the section from Dunedoo to Binnaway on 2 April 1917; the section from Binnaway to Coonabarabran on 11 June 1917; and the section from Coonabarabran to Gwabegar on 10 September 1923.^[1][2]

Currently, the Gwabegar Line is operational between Wallerawang to Rylstone and between Gulgong and Binnaway. The line beyond Rylstone to Gulgong and from Binnaway towards the terminus at Gwabegar still remains booked out of use and rail traffic remains suspended.^[3][4][5]

The section of the Line between Kandos and Rylstone was restored in 2018 to operate heritage trains between the two railway stations.^[5]