Bombo railway station

Bombo is a single-platform intercity train station located in Bombo, New South Wales, Australia, on the South Coast railway line. The station serves NSW TrainLink trains travelling south to Kiama and north to Wollongong and Sydney. Premier Illawarra services to Kiama and Shellharbour stop near the station. Bombo Station is listed on the state heritage register and is reputedly the closest railway station in Australia to the sea.Bombo Station opened as the temporary South Coast Line terminus in late 1887 under the name "North Kiama". The town of Kiama, situated among fingers of hard basaltic rock running down from Saddleback Mountain to the sea, presented something of a barrier to the railway's progress further south. Over the course of the next six years, engineers and workers from the firm of W. Monie & J. Angus worked to excavate the five tunnels required to bring the line through Kiama and onto the coastal plain beyond. North Kiama Station lost its terminal status in 1893 and declined in importance, losing its locomotive turntable to Kiama four years later.Though it no longer served the town proper, the station and yard remained important to the NSW Government Railways' basalt quarry at nearby Bombo Point, where mining had started in 1880. The station was renamed Bombo in 1907; a signal box was built in 1925 to assist in handling the trains laden with railway ballast and road aggregate. The station yard retains a 523-metre passing loop and 159-metre down siding.