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The Casino-Murwillumbah railway line originally began in Lismore. Locomotives, rolling-stock and materials were bought by steamer up the Richmond river into the Wilson river and unloaded at the wharves in Lismore. The first section of the line from Lismore to Murwillumbah opened in 1894. Dr Mehreen Faruqi MLC s working hard to try and stop the state government introducing legislation that will allow the government to give itself discretionary powers to destroy unused rail lines across the state, including the valuable Casino to Murwillumbah rail line, and sell off the land to developers. Railway from Casino to the Gold Coast. Train services on the Casino to Murwillumbah railway in north-eastern New South Wales were suspended in 2004. Before its election in 2011, the Coalition promised to restore services and spoke disparagingly of "Labor intransigence". However, no restoration has happened. It was announced by Railcorp on the 7th of April 2004 that trains will cease running between Casino and Murwillumbah.: Then on 16th May 2005 the l ast Murwillumbah XPT departed Murwillumbah for Sydney Link to more pictures of the last train: Link to more pics of the last special train (CPH Railmotor) Last special train ran on Saturday and Sunday 25th and 26th October 2003. service between Casino and Murwillumbah, in particular the impact of the loss of jobs within CountryLink and other State Government departments and agencies and the closure of local train stations and Travel Centres, (c) the future of the rail line between Casino and Murwillumbah, including, but not limited to, the The Murwillumbah railway line is a mostly disused railway line in far north-eastern Northern Rivers New South Wales, Australia. The line ran from Casino to Lismore , Byron Bay , Mullumbimby and Murwillumbah , opening in 1894. [1] Members of the Northern Rivers Railway Action Group support the reopening of the Casino to Murwillumbah rail line. "The cost of rail is about 20 times cheaper than roads and rail is 200 times safer. Like the Casino-Murwillumbah line, the original Gold Coast railway followed a tortuous steam age alignment. Former Gold Coast Mayor Lex Bell was about 10 years old when the lines shut down, and remembers being a passenger on the old trains.
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