Shellharbour Junction railway station
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Shellharbour Junction
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NSW TrainLink intercity train station ← Oak Flats · Minnamurra → |
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| Location | Piper Drive, Dunmore New South Wales Australia |
| Coordinates | 34°35′30″S 150°50′46″E / 34.591550°S 150.846216°ECoordinates: 34°35′30″S 150°50′46″E / 34.591550°S 150.846216°E |
| Owned by | RailCorp |
| Line(s) | South Coast |
| Distance | 108.887 km from Central |
| Platforms | 2 side, 174 metres |
| Train operators | NSW TrainLink |
| Bus operators | Premier Illawarra |
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| Structure type | At-grade |
| Parking | 105 spaces |
| Bicycle facilities | Bike racks |
| Disabled access | Easy Access |
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| Website | Sydney Trains |
| History | |
| Opened | 9 November 1887 |
| Rebuilt | 22 November 2014 |
| Electrified | 17 November 2001 |
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| Traffic | |
| Passengers (2015) | 10,616 (Q1 only) |
| Rank | 280th of 307 |
Shellharbour Junction is a railway station located in Dunmore, New South Wales, Australia, on the Illawarra railway line. The station is served by NSW TrainLink South Coast Line trains travelling south to Kiama and north to Wollongong and Sydney.Premier Illawarra operates a connecting bus service from the station to Shellharbour.
The Shellharbour district was initially reliant on coastal shipping for its connection to Wollongong and Sydney, but this changed with the construction of the South Coast railway line to Wollongong in 1887, and its connection to Sydney the following year. Dunmore Station opened along with the Wollongong–North Kiama extension in 1887, with a single platform, weatherboard platform building and Victorian–Georgian brick stationmaster's residence. The station was used by passengers from nearby Shellharbour; the main freight users were local pastoralists and the neighbouring basalt quarry. The growth in quarry traffic necessitated the construction of a goods siding in 1923 and a signal box two years later. The station was refurbished around the same time. In 1940, a second side platform ("platform 1") was added. The flow of rail freight from the district waned in the late 20th century, however, and the goods siding was removed in 1970. The old station buildings, still extant today, are located near where Dunmore Road (formerly Shellharbour Road) intersects with the railway line, at the southern end of Dunmore.
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