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New Norfolk to Kallista

Below is a list of the Stations and Stops between New Norfolk and Kallista. The Derwent Valley Line branches off the Main line at Bridgewater and heads West on the North side of the Derwent River via Boyer before reaching New Norfolk. It then climbs following the Derwent River and crossing it twice until Macquarie Plains where it leaves the Derwent River Valley and heads west up the Tyenna river, terminating at Kallista.

The major stations below have link with information about history of buildings, Stationmasters and Porters

KPD Name other names First Opened

[Walch's Almanac]

Staff Description* Passengers and Produce miles
18.3 NEW NORFOLK 1888 Stationmaster

Porter

Major Station + Sidings

[Terminus 1886]

- New Norfolk Fruit and Veg, Coal, Pioneer Pegs 24.7
19.4 ValleyField 1912 Goods Siding Fruit 25.5
21.2 Lawitta Falls 1890 Stopping Place 26.5
22.5 Mayfair 1918 Goods Siding 27.5
23.8 HAYES Hamilton Road up to 1898 1890 Stationmaster Station + Goods Siding Apple Farms, HEC Cement Store 28.0
29.0 PLENTY 1890 Stationmaster

Platelayer

Station and Goods Siding

[Terminus 1887]

Salmon Farm 31.5
31.5 Ivanhoe Gates Tobacco Kiln 34
33.8 Yates Siding Yates 1919 Goods Siding Seed merchants 34.5
35.9 MACQUARIE PLAINS Bushy Park 1890 Stationmaster

Porter

Major Station + Sidings Hops, Hop-pickers 35.7
39.2 Coniston Glenora (1st) 1890 [Terminus 1888 -1909],

Turntable

Hops, Hop-pickers 37.3
40.9 Glenora (2nd) 1936 Station and Siding Wool, Fruit 38.7
42.6 Karanja Styx Junction

Karanja Junction

1952 Junction Junction for ANM timber line into Styx Valley 39.7
Meadow Banks Goods Siding 41.0
45.0 Robinson's Crossing 1936 Stopping Place 41.3
46.0 Rumley 1909 Goods Siding 42.0
47.0 Risby's Siding Siding Timber siding
48.6 WESTERWAY Russell until 1919 1909 Stationmaster

Postmaster

Station

[Terminus 1909 -1916]

43.5
53.1 Belcher's Siding Belcher's 1918 Good siding and stopping place 46.3
53.5 Whilkes 46.5
54.4 Hollydene Crooke's Siding 1918-c.1923 1918 Timber Siding Timber 47.5
54.7 Chesterman's Siding Timber siding 47.5
55.2 NATIONAL PARK 1918 Tourists, Walkers, Naturalists, Scientists 47.7
55.8 Kemp's Siding 1919 Timber siding 48.0
57.0 Burnley's Siding Burnley 1919 48.7
58.3 Newbury 1936 49.3
59.1 Arcadian Home Arcadian House 1919 50.0
59.7 Sharp's Siding Sharp's 1936 Siding Cordwood siding 50.5
60.1 Stephen's Bridge 1919 Siding and Stopping Place 50.7
61.9 Marriott's Falls 1948? Stopping Place 52.0
62.6 Tyenna 1919 Siding and Stopping place 52.3
65.4 FITZGERALD Maydena in 1917 1919 [Terminus 1917 -1936] Adamsfield Prospectors 54.0
John Bull Crossing 1948? Stopping Place 55.0
68 Maydena Junee until c.1943 1945 55.5
70.8 Florentine Pillinger's Creek until mid1940s [Terminus 1950 -198?] -Timber

- Silica

Nicholls' Junction Junction Junction for ANM Nicholls spur line
72.8 Kallista [1936] [Terminus 1936 -1950]

*(description) Australian Railway Enthusiast Vol.48 No.1, March 2010, p.5