Bombala Line-Michelago & Cooma Railway Station's

[Bus 400]

These last two photos are from Michelago Station.



A turntable, I am pretty sure this is a recent addition & was installed by the Army Reserve on behalf of the Australian Railway Historical Society.



A view of the line heading south (towards Cooma wherer we are off to next).


Next Station Cooma, passengers for Thredbo & Perisher please disembark here.


Back in the hey day, the Snow Express train would depart from Sydney & arrive at Cooma very early in the morning. Coaches would then take eager skiers to Thredbo & Perisher & arrive just in time for a day of fun & wet bums.



This is a view of the line to the north towards Michelago.



Name plate.






Cooma Station.



Station master's house.



Signal box.



An old sign.


The below links are of information signs around Cooma Station:
http://i611.photobucket.com/albums/tt193/Bus400/Bombala%20Line/CoomaRailwayStation3.jpg
http://i611.photobucket.com/albums/tt193/Bus400/Bombala%20Line/CoomaRailwayStation7.jpg
http://i611.photobucket.com/albums/tt193/Bus400/Bombala%20Line/CoomaRailwayStation8.jpg
A carpark sign-http://i611.photobucket.com/albums/tt193/Bus400/Bombala%20Line/CoomaRailwayStation14.jpg



A view south towards our next destination of Nimmitabel.


All aboard (blows whistle).

[Busnerd]

Julian, that is not the station masters house. When I visited recently for the historic train rides down there the guys that ran the place were very informative of everything on the site, he told us that was barracks for the workers who were working on the snowy hydro project, they would sleep in there as the rail yard was almost a 24 hour operation at the time and they would just sleep on site and then obviously work the rolling stock etc. during the day.

I would actually recommend that ACTBUS should take 670 down there one day and go for a ride on the old train, it is $18 each (we paid $20 each, therefore giving a small donation of $2 each) and the people that run it have lots of interesting old stories etc.

[Sir Pompously]

According to nswrail.net, the turntable was replaced with the one seen here, it was originally from The Rock.

The train that ran to Cooma was the Canberra Monaro Express. Not sure if there was a Snow Express as such, as I do not have the timetable or a list of named services.