Stations
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 | Apples, 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 | 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 | Goods siding and stopping place | 46.3 | ||
53.5 | Whilkes | Stopping Place | 46.5 | ||||
54.4 | Hollydene | Crooke's Siding 1918-c.1923 | 1918 | Siding | Timber | 47.5 | |
54.7 | Chesterman's Siding | Siding | Timber | 47.5 | |||
55.2 | NATIONAL PARK | 1918 | Station | Tourists, Walkers, Naturalists, Scientists | 47.7 | ||
55.8 | Kemp's Siding | 1919 | Siding | Timber siding | 48.0 | ||
57.0 | Burnley's Siding | Burnley | 1919 | Siding and
stopping place |
48.7 | ||
58.3 | Newbury | 1936 | Siding and
stopping place |
49.3 | |||
59.1 | Arcadian Home | Arcadian House | 1919 | Siding and
stopping place |
50.0 | ||
59.7 | Sharp's Siding | Sharp's | 1936 | Siding and
stopping place |
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 |
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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