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For other rail stations named Hamilton, see Hamilton railway station.
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Hamilton
Newcastle & Central Coast Line
Hunter Line
Station code HMN
Suburb Hamilton
Street(s) Beaumont Street
Distance from Central Station 164.63[1] km
Altitude (above sea level) 5.8[1] m
Types of stopping trains Intercity
Regional
Suburban/Local
Number of platforms 2
Number of tracks 2
Platform arrangement 2 Side
Type of station Ground
Ticket barriers No
Transfers available Bus
Train
Disabled access Handicapped/disabled access Yes
Station facilities Link

Hamilton railway station opened 1872[1] and is located in Hamilton, a suburb of Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia. The station is an interchange between CityRail Newcastle & Central Coast line and Hunter line services.[2] These services go to Sydney, Maitland, Dungog and Scone.

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Platforms and services [edit]

Hamilton Station has two side platforms. Platform 1 can accommodate six carriages. Passengers on eight car Newcastle-bound trains are still required to use the rear six carriages. Platform 2 now holds eight carriages. Prior to the Newcastle-end extension of platform 2 in 2007, eight car trains were required to enter Beaumont Street level crossing and stop outside the signal box.

Platform Line Stopping Pattern Notes
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 Newcastle & Central Coast Line local electric services and intercity electric services to Newcastle
Hunter Line diesel rail-car services to Newcastle
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 Newcastle & Central Coast Line local electric services to Morisset and intercity electric services Gosford, Hornsby and Central (via Strathfield)
Hunter Line diesel rail-car services to Maitland, Telarah, Dungog, Muswellbrook and Scone

Hamilton Junction Signal Box [edit]

Hamilton signal box
The station in 1906, showing Beaumont Street Level Crossing and Hamilton Junction Signal Box

Hamilton Junction Signal Box is separated from Hamilton Station by Beaumont Street Level Crossing. The elegant Victorian signal box was built by McKenzie & Holland in 1897, making it one of the oldest surviving mechanical signal boxes in Australia, and also one of the busiest. Originally fitted with a McKenzie & Holland mechanical lever frame, it now has a 56 lever tappet frame designed by Cyril Byles, the British-born NSWR Signal Engineer and manufactured in Sydney in the former NSWR's Interlocking Workshops. The frame is linked to mechanical points, colourlight running signals of the Double Light Colour Light type (see Australian railway signalling), and a single wire-pull revolving target shunting signal. All running lines are continuously track-circuited, and the method of signalling conforms to the early conventions of Track Circuit Block with block bells. Formerly a much busier location, this signal box once had control of multiple lines, sidings and a short branch for the Vacuum Oil Company. After rationalization in the 1980s and 1990s, the signal box now controls Hamilton Junction, Beaumont Street Level Crossing and entry to and exit from sidings used for storing track maintenance vehicles.

Platform 2 was modified as part of a level crossing upgrade project in 2007. The departure signal, formerly on the Maitland-end of the platform, was removed to a point roughly 50 metres closer to Newcastle. The platform was extended to accommodate eight carriages. These modifications slightly increased the real train running time through Hamilton on the Down Main Line, since the practice of closing the level crossing to road traffic and clearing departure signals before the train's arrival has now been abandoned to some extent, meaning that arriving trains receive more restrictive signal indications on the approach to Hamilton Station.

The signal box is currently manned continuously for an intensive CityRail DMU and EMU passenger service, a significant number of empty coaching stock movements and occasional track machine activity. There is no provision for switching-out. It is anticipated that resignalling within the next decade will see its closure.

Transport links [edit]

Newcastle Buses runs one route to and from Hamilton railway station:

Gallery [edit]

Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Hamilton railway station, New South Wales

  • Platform 1 building

  • Entrance on platform 1 side

  • Platform 2 entrance

  • 620/720 Hunter railcar on platform 1

References [edit]

  1. ^ a b c Station Names. Date of opening, closing and/or change of name. Public Transport Commission of New South Wales. Administrative Branch (Archives Section) (3rd ed.). February 1979 [1965]. p. 15.  Unknown parameter |origmonth= ignored (help)
  2. ^ CityRail (28 May 2006). Intercity Timetable - Newcastle and Central Coast Line. 

External links [edit]

Preceding station   CityRail   Following station
towards Dungog or Scone
 Hunter Line
towards Newcastle
towards Central
 Newcastle and Central Coast Line
towards Newcastle
CityRail Stations
Newcastle and
Central Coast Line
Hunter Line
(stations in italics are under planning or under construction)
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Interurban and regional
Under construction or planning: South West Rail Link, North West Rail Link

Coordinates: 32°55′06″S 151°44′55″E / 32.9184°S 151.7485°E / -32.9184; 151.7485

Significant places and items of interest in the Hunter Region of New South Wales
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