1989 Newcastle earthquake

Cockle Creek Power Station was located in Teralba, New South Wales, Australia on the banks of Cockle Creek. The power stationed operated from 11 March 1927 until March 1976.

Booragul is a suburb of the City of Lake Macquarie, Greater Newcastle in New South Wales, Australia, and is located north-northeast of the town of Toronto on the western shore Lake Macquarie. Booragul railway station is on the Central Coast & Newcastle Line.

Lake Macquarie City FC is a football club in Lake Macquarie, New South Wales. The club was formed in 1912 formed by a group of Scottish miners in the area.

The Lake Macquarie Regional Football Facility (LMRFF) is a football facility located in Speers Point, NSW. Developed in 2014, it consists of: 2 full-size synthetic football fields, 10 five-a-side football fields, an administration building, a 120-space vehicle parking area and associated infrastructure.

Teralba railway station is located on the Main Northern line in New South Wales, Australia. It serves the City of Lake Macquarie suburb of Teralba.As part of the electrification of the line in the early 1980s, the northbound platform was removed and the southbound platform converted to an island platform to allow the line south of the station to be realigned for faster speeds. The prominent signal box on top of the island platform was removed at the same time. In 2011, the station building was demolished and replaced by a waiting shed.

Cockle Creek railway station is located on the Main Northern line in New South Wales, Australia. It serves the City of Lake Macquarie suburb of Boolaroo. The station is on the eastern side of Cockle Creek and a balloon loop exists west of the creek for the Teralba Colliery.

Cockle Creek Smelter was a zinc and lead smelter located at the northern end of Lake Macquarie near Boolaroo in Newcastle, New South Wales. The smelter was built in by the Sulphide Corporation in 1896 and the first attempts to refine zinc using the Ashcroft Process began in 1897 but that process was abandoned shortly after due to technical difficulties. The plant was subsequently adapted to smelt Lead using blast furnace technology. The smelter produced large quantities of Zinc, Lead and sulphuric acid during its life. The Cockle Creek Smelter was one of the Hunter regions first major industrial site and its operation contributed to the economic growth of New South Wales and Australia. Other materials were produced at the smelter to fill the need as required such as Cement, Superphosphate and compounds for explosive manufacture for the war effort in World War I and World War II. A rail connection was made from the plant to the Newcastle line on 16 July 1896. The smelter closed in September 2003, since it had become uneconomic. It is now hoped COSTCO & IKEA will open Bulk Retail Sales Warehouses on the site. (http://www.lakesmail.com.au/story/6350365/state-snaps-up-pasminco-site/)

Boolaroo is a suburb of Greater Newcastle, city of Lake Macquarie, New South Wales, Australia, located 19 kilometres (12 mi) west of Newcastle's central business district in Lake Macquarie's West Ward. It was the epicenter of the 1989 Newcastle earthquake. Boolaroo borders a number of well-known towns and suburbs within the Lake Macquarie Region, including Warners Bay and Speers Point, and, for a small strip of land, fronts onto Lake Macquarie itself. Within Boolaroo is Cockle Creek railway station, a small station on the Central Coast & Newcastle Line. Also, Boolaroo previously housed a lead/zinc smelter, owned by the former Pasminco (now Zinifex) however the site has been cleared since the smelter ceased operations in 2003. Boolaroo is home to several churches, of various denominations, as well as Boolaroo Public School, a library, a cinema (which was partially destroyed in the 1989 Newcastle earthquake) and a number of shops, including a small supermarket and a military disposal store.

Boolaroo Racecourse is a former racecourse, near the suburb of Boolaroo, New South Wales, Australia, it was served by a station and siding on the then Main North Line. The area is now an industrial estate. The racecourse was located to the west of Cockle Creek with its western and northern boundary being the original Sydney to Newcastle rail line (1889). The station was closed on 14 May 1942 and removed. The new line (1957) was constructed nearly 30 years after the demise of the racecourse. The racecourse had a difficult start in the 1890s with a scarcity of race days for the Boolaroo calendar. With the Sulphide Corporation, from 1898, becoming an important place of employment things were looking up for Boolaroo and the adjacent suburbs. The advertisement for a New Year’s day 1902 meeting at the Doncaster Racecourse Boolaroo was a strong indication of the racecourse as a participant in the sport in the Lower Hunter region.Things look to have been tough in the early years of the 20th century and the Maitland Daily Mercury reported on 23 Sep. 1908 that the “Boolaroo racecourse, at Cockle Creek, changed hands to-day, for a large sum.” Racecourse Purchased by a Syndicate. The new owners were planning “to immediately make the property one of the best equipped courses in the State.” . . . "Mr. Lou Solomon, secretary of (Newcastle) Tattersalls Club, will have the management of the new venture, in the capacity of secretary to the syndicate." The paper also noted: "There was a station and a siding near the south-western corner of the racecourse paddock. The location of the railway made the track attractive to owners and punters from Sydney to enjoy their sport at Boolaroo." A number of aircraft used the racecourse as an emergency landing site, including the aircraft Southern Cross flown by Charles Kingsford Smith in 1927.

Teralba is a town and suburb of Greater Newcastle, City of Lake Macquarie in New South Wales, Australia, between the towns of Speers Point and Booragul on the northern shoreline of Lake Macquarie. The town first came into being with the construction of the Homebush to Waratah Railway in the early 1880s.

Argenton is a suburb of the city of Lake Macquarie, Greater Newcastle in New South Wales, Australia 16 kilometres (10 mi) west of the Newcastle's central business district in Lake Macquarie's West Ward.

Booragul railway station is located on the Main Northern line in New South Wales, Australia. It serves the City of Lake Macquarie suburb of Booragul opening on 24 October 1926.The original station buildings were extensively damaged in the 1989 Newcastle earthquake, resulting in their demolition and replacement with the current structures. A housing development west of the station is currently under construction, however, there is no convenient access to the railway station, and will likely do little to increase patronage (which averaged at 110 passengers per day in 2013).