Yass Junction railway station
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Yass Junction railway station is a heritage-listed railway station on the
History
Yass Junction station is located outside of
Despite continuous objections, none of Whitton's working plans or other Government surveys were able to find a suitable route for the railway to pass through Yass. Instead, the present route from Gunning to Bowning was chosen which passed four kilometres to the north, with the station opening on 3 July 1876 as Yass.[2][3]
The Yass Tramway
After a Government Bill was passed "to authorise the construction of tramways along certain streets and highways in the city and suburbs of Sydney and elsewhere", a tramway was built from to Yass Town to convey passengers. The trams departed from a small dock platform behind Platform 2 (the south bound platform). The line opened on 20 April 1892, with Yass station renamed Yass Junction on the same day. On 18 May 1914, the line from Coolalie was duplicated.[4][5]
It seems that around 1917, some consideration was given to extending the line from Yass to Canberra—as part of a grander plan of extending a railway to Jervis Bay—and this work went as far as determining a proposed route.[6][7]
Services on the Yass Tramway were suspended on the line on 1 January 1957, started again on 1 December 1957, but again suspended on 18 May 1958.[8] A private bus service continued to carry passengers between the two locations but it also ceased on 18 May 1967.[8] The final services were three steam specials hauled by locomotives 1210 and 3112 on 29 October 1988, before the line was formally closed on 14 November 1988.[9][10] In 1990, Yass Town station was leased to the Australian Railway Historical Society.[11][12]
Services
Yass Junction is served by two daily NSW TrainLink XPT services in each direction operating between Sydney and Melbourne, and a twice weekly NSW TrainLink Xplorer between Griffith and Sydney split from Canberra services at Goulburn. NSW TrainLink also operate a road coach service from Queanbeyan to Cootamundra via Yass Junction station.[13] This station is a request stop for the evening Melbourne XPT trains, so these services only stop here if passengers have booked to board/alight here.
Platform | Line | Stopping pattern | Notes |
1 | services to Sydney Central, Griffith & Melbourne | evening return Melbourne XPT request stop (booked passengers only) |
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Heritage listing
Yass Junction is an important site with the earliest surviving station building on the main southern railway (though altered). The site illustrates the changes from early construction with single track operation to duplication and the need for a second platform with additional facilities including refreshment rooms. These facilities in a remote location indicated concern by the railways to provide a modicum of redress to the citizens of Yass when engineering difficulties meant their town was to be by-passed by the southern railway. The site is significant because of the group of buildings including signal box, footbridge, station buildings and residence.
Yass Junction railway station was listed on the New South Wales State Heritage Register on 2 April 1999 having satisfied the criteria that the place possesses uncommon, rare or endangered aspects of the cultural or natural history of New South Wales. It was assessed as historically, architecturally and socially rare.[1]
References
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- ^ a b Forsyth, J.H. (ed.) (1988–93), Stations & Tracks; Vol. 3A: "Southern Branch Lines". State Rail Authority of New South Wales: Sydney, p. 101.
- ^ Yass Junction Station NSWrail.net
- ^ Forsyth, J.H. (ed.) (1988–93), Stations & Tracks; Vol. 3A: "Southern Branch Lines". State Rail Authority of New South Wales: Sydney, p. 103.
- ^ Yass Junction Railway Precinct NSW Environment & Heritage
- ^ "Proposed railway routes between Yass and Canberra". Sydney, New South Wales: Unknown. 1917. Retrieved 16 January 2021 – via Trove.
- ^ "Yass-Canberra to Jervis Bay Railway". Shoalhaven Telegraph (NSW : 1881 – 1937). 6 June 1917. p. 12. Retrieved 16 January 2021.
- ^ a b Forsyth, J.H. (ed.) (1988–93), Stations & Tracks; Vol. 3A: "Southern Branch Lines". State Rail Authority of New South Wales: Sydney, p. 97.
- ^ Forsyth, J.H. (ed.) (1988–93), Stations & Tracks; Vol. 3A: "Southern Branch Lines". State Rail Authority of New South Wales: Sydney, p. 96.
- ^ "Signalling & Safeworking" Railway Digest January 1989 page 28
- ^ "Yass Branch" Railway Digest July 1990 page 258
- ^ Home Yass Railway Museum
- ^ "Southern timetable". NSW TrainLink. 7 September 2019.
Attribution
- This Wikipedia article contains material from Yass Junction Railway Station group, entry number 01291 in the New South Wales State Heritage Register published by the State of New South Wales (Department of Planning and Environment) 2018 under CC-BY 4.0 licence, accessed on 28 May 2018.
External links
- Yass Junction details Transport for New South Wales