Beresfield railway station, New South Wales
- Beresfield railway station, New South Wales
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Beresfield is a railway station on the on the Main North railway line, (which CityRail markets as the Hunter Line), in the western suburbs of Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia. In 2002 Beresfield was fully redeveloped and includes new easy access facilities, station signage & booking office. Beresfield was the site of a major rail accident when on 23 October 1997, a coal train collided into the rear of another coal train standing on the same tracks. The cause was a failure to stop at a signal. Six people were injured including the station master and a commuter who jumped from the platform moments before the collision. The crash resulted in dozens of coal-wagons tumbling over the platform and across the tracks, closing all four tracks of the Main North Line and a virtual demolition of Beresfield station[cite web| work=Emergency Management Australia | title=Beresfield (Newcastle), NSW: Rail Collision| url=http://www.ema.gov.au/ema/emadisasters.nsf/54273a46a9c753b3ca256d0900180220/f89905ed418cb58eca256d3300057e20?OpenDocument| accessdate=30 December | accessyear=2006] . ]Platforms/Service
The station is served by approximately two trains per hour on weekday off-peak and one service per hour on weekends, with additional services in weekday peak hours. Limited stop services to Newcastle and Telarah, and services to Dungog and Scone also stop at Beresfield.
Platform 1:
*Hunter line colour>Hunter Line - regional services to Newcastle.
Platform 2:
*Hunter line colour>Hunter Line - regional services to Maitland, Telarah, Dungog, Muswellbrook and Scone.
ee also
*CityRail for the operator of passenger rail services
*Railway accidents in New South Wales
*Mapit-AUS-suburbscale old|long=151.6584|lat=-32.7997
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