Cootamundra / Tumut Branch Rail Line
0
Planing
0
Opening
0
Tumut Railway Yards
0
The Trains


0
Closed
Railway
Tumut
History
email me
Mail:- Tumut History, PO Box 132, Tumut, NSW 2720, Australia
"Information is our only purpose; that accomplished, we shall consider that we have done our duty."  Reference
More reading from newspapers

  • Rail Road to Port Phillip? html 5 April 1845 (3,213 words)
  • Railway Visionary and Ridiculous html 18 April 1845 (3,328 words)
  • Railways html 18 May 1846  (1,544 words)
  • Tumut Railway html 22 September 1884 (151 words)
  • Gundagai to Tumut Railway html 3 July 1896 (241 words)
  • Gundagai-Tumut Railway, The Tumutians Intoxicated With Joy html 18 September 1886 (128 words)
  • The Tumut Railway html 17 February 1899 (196 words)
  • Gundagai to Tumut Railway html 22 November 1899 (134 words)
  • Gundagai-Tumut Railway, to Proceed html 7 August 1900 (47 words)
  • The Gundagai-Tumut Railway html 23 October 1900 (1,399 words)
  • Tumut Railway Completed  html 5 June 1903 (90 words)
  • Well-worn Rail Tracks of the Past Lie Idle html 26 June 1994 (1,162 words)
  • Highlighting History of Tumut’s Railway Precinct read 6 November 2015 (683 words)

Newspaper
Menu
The turntable at Tumut allowed steam locomotives to be turned for up return workings to Cootamundra and also for Batlow down services.
Similarly, the Batlow yard had a turntable for its up returning locomotives to Tumut.
The result of NOT using the turntable.
This 32 class steam locomotive was running light and tender first when it derailed on a return to Cootamundra not far north of Gilmore.
Number 6 CPH ready to leave Tumut (note the tail triangle). It is displaying the original single headlight). August School Holidays 1981. (The fertilizer shed on the left was on a siding.)
Railway worker's accommodation in the Tumut station yards.
Note the extra roof which was added to provide shade.
The same CPH at Gundagai, on its way to Cootamundra.

The now disused Tumut turntable.
Number 4 CPH after leaving Gilmore station, heading to Gundagai.

Rail Motor at Coolac.
Rail Motor 710 at Tumut station.1965
Tumut turntable October 1967.
Turning one of the two locomotives used to haul the special train to Tumut in  October 1967.
Offloading goods at Tumut Goods Yard ,1965.
Go to the Tumut Railway Precinct restoration page.
Map of NSW Railways before the Tumut line was added.
Tumut engine shed (now demolished).
The turntable is to the right of this photograph.
October 1967.
Go to the story of the Last passenger train to leave Tumut