Northern Rivers Rail Ltd News Archive

Save our tracks from being ripped up to build a bike path! Upcoming Rallies and March on 17 June 2021 On Thursday, 17 June 2021, we have two rallies and a march to request Tweed Shire Council to conduct independent, Shire-wide community consultation and to not remove the rail tracks. Rally at Murwillumbah will gather at the Railway Station from 3pm onwards. At 4:30pm, participants can take part in a peaceful march across the bridge to the lawn outside Tweed Shire Council, on Tumbulgum Road. Rally in Tweed Heads will be at 4:30pm on the lawns outside the Council branch office in Brett Street. Council will meet at 5:30pm. We ask all of our supporters and the wider community to please attend to demonstrate to Council that there is indeed widespread support. If we don’t act now then it may be too late. Show your support, gather with us. Mark the date please. Join our Not-For-Profit Public Company and bring rail back!

Media Release for Immediate Publication The Northern Rivers Rail Ltd (NRRL) sent a letter last week to the Tweed Shire Council concerning ‘The failure of Tweed Shire Council to consult with their constituents over the proposed removal of the railway tracks from Murwillumbah to Crabbes Creek’. Marie Luxford, a director of NRRL, stated in the letter, ‘I write to you on this matter to express our extreme anger at the potential threat to lose our railway line. We will be focussing on the forthcoming Local Government elections and the behaviour of incumbent and aspiring councillors on this matter. We have a large membership and will be keeping our members informed’. We, and the majority of the people of Murwillumbah, do not agree with the removal of the railway tracks from the railway corridor and their replacement with a bicycle trail on the formation of the railway line. We would consider instead the placement of the rail trail in an off formation setting, provided the railway tracks and ...