Gerringong railway station
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Gerringong
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NSW TrainLink intercity train station ← Kiama · Berry → |
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| Location | Belinda Street, Gerringong New South Wales Australia |
| Coordinates | 34°44′42″S 150°49′02″E / 34.7451°S 150.8172°ECoordinates: 34°44′42″S 150°49′02″E / 34.7451°S 150.8172°E |
| Owned by | RailCorp |
| Operated by | NSW TrainLink |
| Line(s) | South Coast |
| Distance | 128.560 km from Central |
| Platforms | 1, 80 metres |
| Train operators | NSW TrainLink |
| Construction | |
| Structure type | At-grade |
| Parking | Yes |
| Bicycle facilities | Yes |
| Disabled access | Easy Access |
| Architectural style | Inter-war functionalism |
| Other information | |
| Website | Sydney Trains |
| History | |
| Opened | 2 June 1893 |
| Traffic | |
| Passengers (2014) | 13,462 |
| Rank | 254th of 307 |
Gerringong is a single-platform intercity train station located in Gerringong, New South Wales, Australia, on the South Coast railway line. The station serves NSW TrainLink diesel multiple unit trains travelling south to Bomaderry and north to Kiama. Early morning and late night services to the station are provided by train replacement bus services. In the past, the station precinct also catered to freight trains carrying dairy products.
The NSW Government Railways opened its South Coast Line extension, from Bombo to Bomaderry, on 2 June 1893. The town was initially served by both the main Gerringong Station and a smaller, unmanned stop called Omega, two kilometres to the north. The timing was fortuitous: the district's main link to Sydney, the jetty at Boat Harbour, had been destroyed in a storm two years previously. The arrival of the railway marked the end of coastal shipping to Gerringong after close to half a century of service.
The Gerringong district was home to a highly productive dairy industry. The opening of the railway dramatically improved local producers' access to the lucrative Sydney market, so the then Gerringong Co-Operative Dairy Society moved its operations to a site neighbouring the station in 1908. The factory's rail siding was extended in 1936.
On the night of 18 August 1941, lightning struck wiring leading to Gerringong's weatherboard station building, setting it alight. A report in the local Kiama Reporter says that 150 townsfolk gathered at the scene, and a firehose was run from the adjacent factory to fight the blaze, but the building was lost – only the brick chimney and an iron safe remained. "The train from Sydney ... was held up for about twenty minutes on account of the fire," the Reporter recorded. A new brick station building was built in its place in 1942 in the functionalist style; it remains on the site in modified form today.
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