This weekend four train loads of tourists will be arriving at Newbridge station as part of the Bathurst Vintage Rail Weekend Newbridge Shuttle.
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Normally a village would have coordinated some sort of event, be it a market or something for the visitors to enjoy, but this weekend those wanting to see Newbridge bustling with visitors will have to watch those carriages simply return to Bathurst, only minutes after pulling into the station.
Frustrated by the lack of access to the platform the Newbridge Progress Association is once again calling upon the NSW government to create access to the historic station.
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President of the association Wayne Moore said that access could be easily obtained by putting in a disabled ramp to the east of the platform, and for a fraction of the cost of restoring the footbridge.
"There's a real shift happening in the way that people are travelling and what they want to see," he said. "The number of people coming to Newbridge has really increased recently, so imagine what we could do if the station was opened and it was part of a rail tourism loop."
Mr Moore said that the idea of using rail to promote the shire's villages was an idea whose time had come.
"There's the Bathurst Rail Museum and Lachlan Valley Rail in Orange and they could both be running trips to Carcoar, Blayney, Millthorpe and here to Newbridge," he said.
"The one thing that Newbridge station has that they don't is a siding that the trains can stop at without blocking the main line."
Wendy Smith from the Olde Bridge Gallery in Newbridge said that visitor numbers are increasing, and everyone is impressed by what they discover.
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"Improving the station and opening it up would attract business to the village," she said. "Tourism is all about experiences and Newbridge has the potential of becoming another big tourist destination in Blayney."
Locals are also frustrated that visitors can admire the work that locals have gone to to improve the look of their private homes, whilst all the while public infrastructure is falling into disrepair.
"This is demolition by neglect," Mr Moore said. "The ball now is in the court of our local member and minister for regional transport and roads Paul Toole to open Newbridge station."
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