As it has been over 5years since Moss Vale Noitats has been archived, it is time to place another one nearby.
A nice simple cache.
It is hiding about 1klm south from the Railway Station. If after finding it, take yourself to the Railway Station in the centre of town near the Gardens and Memorial Clock
Near a Viaduct/subway that will take you from the East to west Moss Vale.
BRING YOUR OWN PEN.
Parking nearby
Moss Vale Railway Station is a station and intermediate terminus of the Southern Highlands line of the city rail intercity network, serving the toen of Moss Vale and the surrounding area.
The station opened on the 2nd December 1867 then named "Sutton Forest", but was renamed Moss Vale 10 years later.
The station has an unusually wide island platform, which is connected to the station entrance and the pedestrian overpass.
The platform included a garden and a private dining room for Governor Belmore who spent the summers in nearby Throsby Park from 1870 to 1872.
It was also a refreshment stop for soldiers travelling to Melbourne, they were served by a group of local ladies known as "The Blue Gum" ladies. Also injured soldiers stopped here for recouperation and care in the town at the local Throsby Estate.
The Great Southern Railway project to open up the interior and connect the two main colonies of New South Wales and Victoria.
Built by thousands of labourers, it reached Mittagong in 1967, bringing with it large tempory shanty towns with inns and tradesmens business, providing new work for hundresa of timber-getters who felled forests to lay the reailway sleepers, and leaving behind new subdivided villages in which settled many of the workers.
The subdivision was called "Moss Vale" after Jemmy Moss, a faithful servant of Throsby Park and whose bark hut stood neat the present station.
It is also one of the main junctions for the rail line to Wollongong taking coal and limestone to BHP and grain for overseas shipment at Port Kembla on the coast.