In 1889 the railway line from Sydney to Cooma opened amid much fanfare and celebration. It meant that people could travel overnight to the Snowy Mountains in relative comfort, and also allowed the residents of the mountains to visit the city with ease. After nearly a century of service the train line closed in 1988 but the station and a section of the line have been maintained since then by the Cooma Monaro Railway, a group of passionate train enthusiasts. Their dedication means that this nostalgic collection of buildings and railway equipment will be preserved as a history lesson for generations to come.
The Eternal Traveller 
I love old train stations. We have an old railroad line, the Washington and Old Dominion (W&OD) here in Virginia that has been turned into a bike trail. In Vienna there’s an old train station, but not as nice as this one. Train stations remind me of old movies from the early 20th century. Your last photo is great! 🙂
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Thanks. We did a trip on the train from Cooma to Chakola, 19 kilometres each way. It took a couple of hours and was very relaxing.
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I love these old stations, they had so much character than what they do today, so sad to see some many of the boarded up and left to rot. Great images Carol.
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Thanks Leanne. You were my inspiration. When I was taking them I was thinking “How would Leanne take these photos?” I’m very pleased to hear that you like them.
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We have an old train station in New Haven,Kentucky Ohio. It sure is a moneymaker for a town of 800 people.
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I don’t know that this one makes much money, probably only enough to keep the train running.
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I love looking at old railway platforms. Portugal has some very quaint ones in the middle of nowhere, only glanced at as we zoom past on the way from Lisbon to the Algarve!. I would love to get off the train and look around but the train timings are too far apart! Maybe one day :). My part of Yorkshire also has some notable train stations, especially Oakworth ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oakworth_railway_station ) which was used in The Railway Children movie.
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It’s gorgeous. I love that our history is being preserved and protected in this way.
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I agree. So many of it is destroyed for new ‘soul-less’ structures…
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Lovely …
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Thank you. It was a gorgeous old place.
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Lovely old train station, Carol. It’s so great that it’s been preserved for posterity. 🙂
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It’s one of just a few that has been preserved so it’s very precious.
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Sigh … I love train travel and your images caused a wave of nostalgia to wash over me.
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That’s nice to hear…it was a very nostalgic place. We went for a ride on the train in the photo. It was slow travel and lots of fun.
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Fascinating. I wonder if my grandmother travelled on this train when she was working at a hotel in the Blue Mountains.
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I don’t know if this train went through the Blue Mountains or not. I’ll do some research.
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Thanks 🙂
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From what I’ve read this line didn’t go through the Blue Mountains. Instead it went south through the Southern Highlands and then in a westerly direction. I’ve been on a train to Katoomba though so maybe that was the one.
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Ah! I wish I knew more about her time there. She didn’t speak about it much to me.
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My grandfather used to travel on that train. This brings back a lot of memories 😉
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Excellent! We really had a lovely day doing this.
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I think we did ourselves a great disservice when we more or less abandoned train travel in favor of cars. Cars are more convenient, and I love mine, but after doing some travel by train this fall, I’m a fan. 🙂 I love your captures of this place. You could start your own tourist magazine! 🙂
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We like to travel by train in Europe because it’s so quick and convenient. Here though the distances are just too great and I think the costs became prohibitive for freight.
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