Ben Lomond

Postcode: 2365

Ben Lomond is a village in the New England region of New South Wales, Australia with a population of approximately one hundred. Ben Lomond is located off the New England Highway between Armidale and Glen Innes. It is located in Guyra Shire with part of the surrounding district in Glen Innes Severn Shire and Inverell Shire. Its primary industries are agriculture and tourism. The name Ben Lomond is from Ben Lomond in Scotland.

During the construction of the railway line (opened in 1888), Ben Lomond was a vibrant community boasting modest local industry, several schools (although only one was a state school), and several sporting teams. With the closure of the railway line and the bypassing of the town by the New England Highway, the population has dwindled in recent years.

Ben Lomond Public School, located on Inn Road, has shrunk in recent years from thirty students in the mid nineties to a current enrolment of eight students. The lack of jobs in the immediate area, drought, as well as the proximity to Glen Innes and Guyra has been a factor in this change in school size.

Ben Lomond is serviced by a general store providing the majority of day to day needs as well as farming equipment as well as three Churches (Catholic, Anglican, and Presbyterian).

Ben Lomond is home to several tourist attractions; including home stays, the longest hand cut railway cutting in Australia, the highest passenger railway station in the southern hemisphere (at the time of the construction of the railway), and various historical sites in and around the village.

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