Stokers Siding Station

Stoker sidings station  The station at Stokers Sidings, the showing raised platform. C. mid 1920's. Photographer Unknown. Tweed Regional Museum Collection MUS2019.87.484

When the railway was constructed in 1894, Stokers Siding was known as a part of Dunbible Creek. The station here was constructed in 1894 and named Dunbible Siding. It wasn’t until 1903 that it was named Stoker’s Siding, after local land holder Joseph Stokers.

Stokers Siding was one of the first stations with a raised platform, before that passengers would wait in the shade of a nearby large cockspur bush and be hauled aboard from ground level.  By 1925 'Siding' was dropped from the name and the station became simply Stokers, it is not known when the name reverted back to Stokers Siding.

The surrounding area was predominantly cane and dairy farmland, the trains would transport the cream to Norco in Murwillumbah and cane to the mill at Condong.

bulls hauling logs to the stoker siding station. Bullock's hauling logs to the railway station to be sent to the mills. 

A sawmill operated near the railway station on the Smiths Creek Road for many years Bullock teams brought logs to the railway which were loaded onto trucks at the gantry and sent to mills at Murwillumbah and Mullumbimby. 

The Station closed in 1974, with trains continuing to travel through the village without stopping.

 

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