Corrimal - Timeline
| 1874 | Trial survey made for the route of the Illawarra railway |
| 1877 | Telegraph line was extended from Bellambi to Bulli |
| 1879 | Two 10-seater coaches were put into service on the Wollongong-Bulli run. |
| 1881 | "Queen of Nations" wrecked on Black Rocks, Towradgi Beach. |
| 1884 | Brokers Nose Colliery commenced operation. |
| 1884 | Model township laid out with reserve for railway station. Sales to commence in July. |
| 1885 | Brookers Farm subdivided and sold. |
| 1886 | February. Thomas Bertram opened coke works with a capacity for 600 tons ...per week at Corrimal. |
| 1887 | 21 June. Railway opened between Clifton and Wollongong |
| 1889 | Many houses being built in new Corrimal suburb. |
| 1889 | Corrimal Hall opened. |
| 1890 | Corrimal Public School opened |
| 1890 | Bertrams Corrimal Coke works out of use. |
| 1890 | Presbyterian Church built |
| 1892 | Corrimal has population of 300 |
| 1896 | St. Albans Church of England dedicated |
| 1899 | Primitive Methodist church opened |
| 1902 | 28 September. St Columbkilles Roman Catholic Church opened by Rt Rev. Monsignor O’Brien |
| 1903 | 2nd March. Broken Hill Proprietary Company opens coke works with 100 ovens west of the railway, between Bellambi and Woonona. |
| 1904 | Railway line duplicated for ¼ mile and station removed to the opposite side of the line. |
| 1904 | Woonona Co-operative Society celebrates the opening of a branch store at Corrimal |
| 1905 | Tourist using the Illawarra Railway on public holidays exceeds 50,000. |
| 1906 | May 15. Bulli Shire proclaimed to serve the area north of Bellambi to the National Park and Waterfall. |
| 1906 | 26 January. Roman Catholic Convent opened by Cardinal Moran. |
| 1910 | Street Bros market garden at Towradgi being irrigated (first irrigation scheme in district). |
| 1912 | Corrimal Colliery opened by G.S. Yuill and Company. |
| 1912 | September. New coke works at Corrimal, completed in May and working with the new Corrimal Colliery, were officially opened. They are still in use today. |
| 1913 | First motor bus service established by J.P. Christiansen and S. Saber. They ran a daily service from Thirroul to Wollongong and Port Kembla. |
| 1913 | South Bulli Colliery started providing electricity to the northern suburbs of Illawarra |
| 1927 | Bellambi Mines Rescue Station established because of legislation passed following the Bellbird mine disaster on the northern field in 1923. |
| 1947 | 12 September. Greater Wollongong was inaugurated to administer the areas formerly comprising the City of Wollongong, Municipality of North Illawarra and the shires of Central Illawarra and Bulli. The population of the newly amalgamated local government areas is 62,973. |
| 1948 | Towradgi Railway Station to open Saturday 18 December |
| 1950 | Northern Illawarra suburbs transferred from private electricity supply to the public utility. |
| 1954 | New school officially opened at Towradgi by the Minister for Education, R J Heffron, on Friday 30 April |
| 1955 | Congregational Church opened in Carters Lane |
| 1958 | Expressway planned Wrexham Road - Bulli Hill - Slacky Flat – to be located between railway and highway to Fairy Meadowv |
| 1963 | Work on sewerage system for northern suburbs, Fairy Meadow to Corrimal, begins. |
| 1964 | Corrimal Colliery acquired by BHP. |
| 1982 | Major downturn in the mining and steel industries occurs as restructuring begins. |
| 1985 | Corrimal Colliery closes |
Last Modified: 20/08/2008
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