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<td align="center" width=50>[[Image:Goods_Icon.png|link=|alt=Goods]]<br><span style="font-size: 10px; font-weight: 700;">Goods</span><br>[[image:Goods_Label.png|link=]]</td> | <td align="center" width=50>[[Image:Goods_Icon.png|link=|alt=Goods]]<br><span style="font-size: 10px; font-weight: 700;">Goods</span><br>[[image:Goods_Label.png|link=]]</td> | ||
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− | + | <span style="font-weight: 700;"><span style="color: white; background-color: black;"> Distance from Gladstone: </span> 21 kms, 13 miles</span><br> | |
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+ | A manned station on the <span style="font-weight: 700; color: white; background-color: black;"> Gladstone-Wilmington Line </span> until 1983 when all the station staff on the line were withdrawn. It was a standing joke in the '''SAR''' that a station named "Stone Hut" would have a station building made entirely of sheets of corrigated iron. A track repair gang was based at '''Stone Hut''' for many years.<br> | ||
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+ | Station and goods siding loops.<br> | ||
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+ | The '''Gladstone-Wilmington Line''' is '''unsignalled'''. Train Order working is in operation on the line.<br> | ||
− | + | Passenger services ended in 1969. The line was closed in 1990 and the track has since been removed. Now only the original station masters cottage survives and a series of interpretive signs placed around the former yard are the only visible evidence of the railway.<br> | |
− | The ''' | + | The former right-of-way from just south of '''Laura''' to '''Wilmington''' is now an 80km walking, cycling and horse riding trail, the '''[https://www.railtrails.org.au/trails/southern-flinders-rail-trail/ Southern Flinders Rail Trail]'''. |
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Latest revision as of 14:18, 11 November 2023
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