page_title: Westby railway line
section_title: Operations
hierarchical_section_title: Westby railway line / Operations
caption_attribution_description: English: The disused Mangoplah platform in November, 1969
context_page_description: The Westby railway line was a railway line in New South Wales, Australia. The line opened on 5 August 1925 as a branch off the Main South line at The Rock to the small community of Westby, a distance of approximately 40 km.
context_section_description: Mixed trains were limited to 500 tons and subject to a maximum equivalent length of 45 4-wheeled wagons and goods trains to 900 tons and an equivalent length of 70. 
  The Down Mixed train, which, in 1949, ran Wednesdays only,  connected with the Down Albury Mail and the Up Riverina Express, whilst the Up Mixed connected with the Up Albury Mail and the Down Riverina Express.
  Services came to an abrupt halt in January, 1952, when a bushfire destroyed nearly 4,000 sleepers and a timber waterway. The last train to Westby ran on 16 January 1952.
  
  Goods train services were resumed the following wheat season to serve the silo at Mangoplah. Once the wheat was cleared, they ran on an "as required" basis. 
   Wheat was again transported by rail from the Mangoplah silo the following three seasons.
caption: The disused Mangoplah platform in November, 1969
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