Historic Photo of the Day: 2025-11-02

Today's historic photo of the day: Exactly 40 years ago today, we see the railway station at Koorawatha, NSW, November 2 1985. Koorawatha is in Central West NSW on the cross-country railway from Blayney via Cowra and Young to Demondrille on the main South line. It was the junction for the branch line to Grenfell via Greenthorpe. Passenger trains were withdrawn from the Grenfell branch in 1975, and the last regular passenger train through Koorawatha itself ran in 1983, just two years before this photo was taken. Note the wording on the nameboard Koorawatha, change here for Grenfell line. This view is taken from what was the main line platform, and passengers from Sydney via either Demondrille or Blayney would have arrived on this side of the station and then been able to do a cross platform interchange to and from Grenfell. I believe that the track on the other side of the platform had been removed just a couple of years beforehand, and goods trains to Grenfell would by this time have passed through the main platform on this side. Goods services dwindled in the 1980s and 90s and today, whilst the line is technically still open, no trains at all have run through here for many years. The station building was demolished sometime in the mid 1990s.