Whittingham | |||||||||||
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General information | |||||||||||
Location | Whittingham | ||||||||||
Coordinates | 32°36′17″S 151°12′01″E / 32.6046°S 151.2003°E | ||||||||||
Line(s) | Main North | ||||||||||
Distance | 233.999 kilometres from Central | ||||||||||
Platforms | 2 | ||||||||||
Tracks | 2 | ||||||||||
Other information | |||||||||||
Status | Demolished | ||||||||||
History | |||||||||||
Opened | 6 September 1869 | ||||||||||
Closed | c.1974 | ||||||||||
Previous names | Falkner's Platform (1869-1877) | ||||||||||
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Whittingham was a railway station on the Main North railway line in New South Wales.
It opened on 6 September 1869 as Falkner's Platform. It was upgraded from a platform to a station and renamed Whittingham in February 1877, at which time a ticket office and waiting room was built and stationmaster appointed. [1] [2] It was for many years the railway access point for the Singleton Army Camp. [3] From 1921 to 1931, it was also an access point for the Singleton Racing Club's short-lived Whittingham Racecourse, which was adjacent to the station. [4] [5] A minor derailment occurred at the station in 1945 when a shunting engine went through the points. [6] It closed around 1974 [7] and the station was demolished.
A junction was built at Whittingham in the 1970s for a coal branch to a coal mine at Mount Thorley and later for the Saxonvale, Wambo and Warkworth collieries.