Dora Creek railway station is a railway station located on the Main North railway line at Dora Creek, New South Wales, Australia. it is served by electric trains of CityRail's Newcastle & Central Coast Line. The station opened in 1889 with two side platforms. It originally had a substantial weatherboard building on the down side, this was demolished in the 1990s and replaced with the current lightweight structures and is now unattended by station staff. The station is served by intercity trains to Sydney and Newcastle and local trains to and from Morisset.
Read more about Dora Creek Railway Station: Platforms and Services, Transport Links
Famous quotes containing the words creek, railway and/or station:
“The only law was that enforced by the Creek Lighthorsemen and the U.S. deputy marshals who paid rare and brief visits; or the “two volumes of common law” that every man carried strapped to his thighs.”
—State of Oklahoma, U.S. relief program (1935-1943)
“Her personality had an architectonic quality; I think of her when I see some of the great London railway termini, especially St. Pancras, with its soot and turrets, and she overshadowed her own daughters, whom she did not understand—my mother, who liked things to be nice; my dotty aunt. But my mother had not the strength to put even some physical distance between them, let alone keep the old monster at emotional arm’s length.”
—Angela Carter (1940–1992)
“I introduced her to Elena, and in that life-quickening atmosphere of a big railway station where everything is something trembling on the brink of something else, thus to be clutched and cherished, the exchange of a few words was enough to enable two totally dissimilar women to start calling each other by their pet names the very next time they met.”
—Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977)