Campbell Town

Mick Lovell’s Campbelltown, a large rural town in the 1950’s. Once was a garage layout.

Campbelltown is located 54km from Sydney on the Main South Line to Melbourne. It had a double tracked main line with two passenger platforms. A dock in the southern end of the Up platform catered for passengers on the “Camden Tram”, as the steam hauled single car passenger train was known. A large goods yard with a stockyard on the eastern side was balanced on its western edge by the storage sidings, coal loader and steam locomotive depot.

Structures at the time included the two lane Campbelltown Road overbridge, Dairy Farmer’s Co-operative milk company depot with its own rail siding, the derelict remains of the closed Broughton Street level crossing, the station master and assistant station master cottages, a brick goods shed, the two track steam locomotive shed and its associated facilities, an old fettlers’ gang shed, the coal loaders and the Narellan Road level crossing.