South Maitland Railway

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East Greta No1 Tunnel Colliery coal loader
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km Station 0 Main North line at Maitland East Greta Junction East Greta No.2 Colliery East Greta East Greta No.1 Colliery Aberdare Junction 6 Stanford Merthyr Branch Glen Ayr Colliery Ayrfield No.1 Colliery Ayrfield No.2 Colliery Heddon Greta Bee Siding Kurri Road North Kurri Kurri Stanford Merthyr Colliery Pelaw Main Colliery Richmond Vale railway 14 Weston Hebburn No.1 Colliery Greta Main Colliery Hebburn No.2 Tunnel Colliery Abermain Abermain No.1 Colliery Neath Neath Colliery Abermain No.3 Colliery Hebburn No.2 Colliery Abermain No.2 Colliery Elrington Colliery Aberdare South Colliery Aberdare Central Colliery 22 Caledonia Aberdare Colliery Bellbird Junction 25 Cessnock Aberdare Extended Colliery Cessnock No.2 Colliery Bellbird Colliery Cessnock No.1 Colliery Pelton Colliery Stanford Main No.2 Colliery Maitland Main Colliery Millfield Colliery

The South Maitland Railway was once an extensive network of privately owned colliery and passenger railway lines which served the South Maitland coalfields in the Hunter Region of New South Wales, Australia and were the second last system in Australia to use steam haulage, having used steam locomotives until 1983.^[1]

The last section was mothballed in March 2020 after operations at the Austar coal mine in Pelton were suspended.^[2][3]