This cache is NOT at the posted coordinates.
About SideTracked Caches
This cache belongs to the SideTracked series. It is not designed to take you to a magical place with a breath taking view. It's a distraction for the weary traveller, but anyone else can go and find it too. More Information can be found at the SideTracked Website
Kurrajong Station
Kurrajong Station was the terminus station on the Richmond-Kurrajong Railway and operated between 1926 and 1952.
The site consisted of a concrete station building, timber goods shed, concrete-faced platform, run-around loop, goods siding, and a 5-ton hand crane.
Old Kurrajong Railway Station. Image courtesy Hawkesbury Library Service: Image No. 005640
After heavy rains in June 1952, a landslide caused the line to close. Due to the expense of repairs and the unprofitability of the railway, the Minister of Railways decided to close the Richmond-Kurrajong Railway permanently.
The Kurrajong Railway Goods Station was transported to the Australiana Pioneer Village (in Wilberforce) after the line closed in 1952. A Prospect Electricity sub-station was built on the former site of Kurrajong Station.
Old Kurrajong Railway Station. Image courtesy Hawkesbury Library Service: Image No. 005636
To find the cache
At the posted coordinates you will find a sign for the Richmond - Kurrajong Railway.
The image used on the sign is from the Australian Railway Historical Society NSW Division and is a photo taken by John Buckland of the Pansy locomotive at Kurrajong Station
- Let the day that the image was taken equal AB
- Let the year that the image was taken equal FGHI
- The sign highlights the period that the Richond-Kurrajong Railway operated. Let the last day of operations equal CD
PLEASE NOTE:
Sign has been temporarily removed whilst roadworks are carried out at the post coordinates.
Should only take a couple of months...so in the meantime to keep the geocache still active use the following numbers:
AB = 14
FGHI = 1948
CD = 26
The cache is located at:
S33 3(H-A).(C-F)DB E150 3G.(D-A)(D-C)H
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