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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 Junction 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 three times before Glenora. The track then leaves the Derwent River Valley and heads west up the Tyenna Valley. Beyond National Park it terminates at 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 Junction 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 three times before Glenora. The track then leaves the Derwent River Valley and heads west up the Tyenna Valley. Beyond National Park it terminates at Kallista.
  
The major stations below (in bold type) have a link with information about history of buildings, Stationmasters and Porters
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The major stations below (in bold type) that are underlined have a link with information about history of buildings, Stationmasters and Porters
 
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Revision as of 12:05, 2 April 2023

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 Junction 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 three times before Glenora. The track then leaves the Derwent River Valley and heads west up the Tyenna Valley. Beyond National Park it terminates at Kallista.

The major stations below (in bold type) that are underlined have a link with information about history of buildings, Stationmasters and Porters

KPD Name other names First Opened

[Walch's Almanac]

Staff Description* Passengers and Produce

[various sources]

miles
18.3 NEW NORFOLK 1888 [1886] Stationmaster

Porter

Clerk

Major Station + Sidings

[Terminus 1886]

New Norfolk Fruit and Veg

New Norfolk General Goods (LCL), Coal, Pioneer Peg Factory.

24.7
19.4 ValleyField 1912 Goods Siding Small Fruit (LCL) 25.5
21.2 Lawitta Falls 1890 Stopping Place Small Fruit (LCL) 26.5
22.5 Mayfair 1918 Goods Siding Small Fruit (LCL) 27.5
23.8 HAYES Hamilton Road up to 1898 1890 Stationmaster Station + Goods Siding Apples, HEC Cement Store, Small Fruit (LCL) 28.0
29.0 PLENTY 1890 Stationmaster

Porter

Platelayer

Station and Goods Siding

[Terminus 1887]

Salmon Farm, Small Fruit (LCL) 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

Cement (Hydro)

Superphosphate, LCL

35.7
39.2 CONISTON Glenora (1st) 1890 Porter [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,

Logs

39.7
Meadow Banks Goods Siding Serving Meadowbank Hydro Camp (which closed in 1967 when Meadowbank Dam Commissioned) 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 [K&D?] Siding Sawmill and 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

Timber Merchants Siding

47.5
55.2 NATIONAL PARK 1918 Station Tourists, Walkers, Naturalists, Scientists, Schoolchildren

Beer for Hotel

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

Hops and Fruit Farm

Trout Fishermen

Lorkin Timber Mill

50.0
59.7 Sharp's Siding Sharp's 1936 Siding and

stopping place

Timber / 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

Osmiridium

Thylacine (to Beaumaris Zoo 1933)

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, Logs, Billets, Cement (Hydro)
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