Welcome to historic Stuart Town Railway Station
Transport for NSW acknowledges the Traditional Owners of the land on which Stuart Town Railway Station is located, the Wiradjuri people. We pay our respects to Elders past, present and emerging.
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Stuart Town Railway Station, which opened on 1 June 1880, is located on the Main Western Railway line between Orange and Wellington. Originally called ‘Ironbark Station’, it was renamed ‘Stuart Town Station’ on 1 May 1889.
As regular train services wound down during the 1970s and 1980s, the local community lobbied to retain the station in recognition of its importance to the establishment of the township. Still in use as a railway station for daily regional services, Stuart Town Station is also listed on the NSW State Heritage Register.
The station precinct originally included a goods shed, signalling levers, dock platform, stock sidings and yard crane— facilities used for moving goods and supporting agricultural expansion. Of these elements, only the dock platform remains. The nearby station master’s residence has survived, but is now in private ownership.
Banjo Paterson wrote a famous poem about a rustic man from ‘Ironbark'—the place later known as Stuart Town. Each year the Stuart Town community hosts “The Man From Ironbark” Festival.
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