This two-stage multi geocache is part of the SideTracked series that is popular in the UK and throughout the world. It is designed to be a relatively quick cache find around train stations for travellers but, of course, anyone else can find it too! There's a small pencil included but it's always good to bring your own writing implement to sign the log.
To learn more about the series, visit the website at the following link...
SideTracked Series
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To Find This Cache:
1. At Chatswood Station, you will need to be in the paid downstairs concourse area to find what you are looking for. If necessary, you will need to go through the Opal entrance barriers using an Opal Card or credit/debit card. Once you have found what you are looking for, the transaction will be reversed as you leave the paid area.
2. In the paid downstairs concourse area there are a number of historic photos. Locate the photo with the old car, horse and buggy outside the COACHBUILDERS.
3. Read the text below the old car.
3. What is the name (one word) of the family stumping and clearing Victoria Ave, early 1800s?
4. Click on the Certitude icon below and enter the family name to receive the GZ coordinates and hint.
You can validate your puzzle solution with
certitude.
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Chatswood Station
Chatswood Station 1916
Image - Wikipedia
Chatswood was named after Charlotte Harnett, wife of Richard Harnett, the then Mayor of Willoughby and a pioneer of the district. The area was originally a "wooded" part of Sydney. The moniker derives from Charlotte's nickname "Chattie" and was shortened from Chattie's Wood to Chatswood in the mid-1800's.
Chatswood station opened on 1st January, 1890 when the North Shore line opened from Hornsby to St Leonards. An island platform was built on 23rd May, 1900 and a third dock platform brought into use on 12th July, 1919. There was a small goods yard, similar to the one at St Leonards, on the western side of the station, beyond the northern end of the platforms. The dock platform on the eastern side of the station was used for electric parcel-van traffic and also for terminating some services from the city, until these were rescheduled to terminate further along the North Shore line.
Until 1958 there was a tram terminus in Victoria Avenue beside the station. The station entrance was later integrated with a shopping centre called The Interchange in the mid-1980s.
Chatswood Station Entrance
Image: YouTube - More Locations
From May 2019, Chatswood station became the major terminus of the Metro North West Line which replaced the Epping to Chatswood railway line which closed in September 2018. The Metro line has now been extended to Sydenham via the Sydney Harbour Rail Tunneland and will, at a later date, be extended to Bankstown. This will leave Platforms 1 and 4 the only platforms served by Sydney Trains, while the two inner lines are used by the Metro North West Line.
Image: YouTube - Transport for Sydney Vlog
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FTF Honours
Baby J Man and Akkatracker
Scintillating SideTrackers
This geocache was part of GC Project: It's Raining Caches 2025.
The project's aim was to create a rain of new geocaches to fall from the sky across the state of NSW at 9am on 19th January 2025 - 1 week before Sydney Geoquest, the first Block Party in the Southern Hemisphere.
Many legendary hiders came together to generously contribute their finest geocaches to build excitement and connection amongst the community and for all finders to enjoy years after the event.
This geocache helped make it rain.
Did you know that NSW has a geocaching association? Geocaching NSW aims to enhance and improve the activity of geocaching and holds regular events where geocachers meet to enjoy their common interests. Visit the association website here.