North Coast Mail

North Coast Mail
Overview
Service typePassenger train
StatusCeased
Last serviceOctober 1985
Former operator(s)State Rail Authority
Route
TerminiSydney
Grafton
Distance travelled696 kilometres
Service frequencydaily in each direction
Line(s) usedNorth 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]

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