North Coast Mail Explained

North Coast Mail
Type:Passenger train
Status:Ceased
Last:October 1985
Formeroperator:State Rail Authority
Start:Sydney
End:Grafton
Distance:696 kilometres
Frequency:daily in each direction
Line Used:North Coast

The North Coast Mail was an Australian passenger train that ran from Sydney via the North Coast line to Grafton until October 1985.

It ran to Murwillumbah until April 1973 when replaced by the Gold Coast Motorail north of Grafton. It was the last New South Wales train to convey a travelling post office, this ceasing in August 1985.[1] [2] [3] [4]

Notes and References

  1. "Goodbye TPO" Railway Digest October 1985 page 292
  2. "North & North Coast Timetable Changes" Railway Digest October 1985 page 296
  3. "The Last Up North Coast Mail" Railway Digest January 1986 page 25
  4. "Melbourne-Sydney Standard Gauge Relief Trains" Australian Railway History April 2012