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Type : Siding
Line : South Line
Distance from Hobart : 175.874m
Opened : Unknown
Closed : Unknown
Status : Closed
Name meaning : Likely after the owner of the property
Notes : Mentioned once in the 1954 WTT

Type : Station
Line : South Line
Distance from Hobart : 171.850km
Opened : 1876 (as Epping Forest), renamed Epping 1914, renamed Epping Forest 1962
Closed : 1982
Status : Closed
Name meaning : The area was named Epping by Governor Lachlan Macquarie's party in 1811, presumably for Epping in England. It became known unofficially as Epping Forest and, when in 1956 a name change was required to avoid duplication, Epping Forest was chosen.
Notes : Location had a crossing loop and a goods siding

Type : Siding
Line : South Line
Distance from Hobart : 169.157km
Opened : Unknown
Closed : Unknown
Status : Closed
Name meaning :  Probably after the owner of the property
Notes : Mentioned once in the 1948 WTT

Type : Station
Line : South Line
Distance from Hobart : 166.100km
Opened : 1876
Closed : 1970
Status : Closed
Name meaning :  It is believed to have been named in the 1830s for a breed of horses that were being imported and bred in the district.
Notes : Station was located on the Down side of the line.

Type : Station
Line : South Line
Distance from Hobart : 161.300km
Opened : 1876 as Corners (after the same name Conara held) renamed as Fingal Road 1887, renamed to Conara Junction 1897
Closed : n/a
Status : In use
Name meaning :  Aboriginal word for "coal" or "charcoal".
Notes : Start of the Fingal Line. Location still has a crossing loop. Previous facilities included a triangle (wye), loco facilities, refreshment room, goods shed and watering facilities. Similar to other stations in Tasmania the local Post Office was once at the station. As built this station had two platforms.

Type : Siding
Line : South Line
Distance from Hobart : 151.578km
Opened : Unknown
Closed : Unknown
Status : Closed
Name meaning : Probably after the owner
Notes : Mentioned once in 1914

Type : Station
Line : South Line
Distance from Hobart : 149.300km
Opened : 1876
Closed : 1982
Status : Closed
Name meaning : After the town
Notes : Location had a crossing loop and watering facilities, horse and carriage loading facilities, a goods siding (covered in part by a goods shed), engine shed and turntable (accessed off the goods loop siding). Up side loading bank still exists and site has an historical marker in place, concrete floor of ganger sheds remain in situ. Platform was on the Down side of the line (still exists). L&NER has one of the ganger sheds.

Type : Siding
Line : South Line
Distance from Hobart : 147.000km
Opened : 1949
Closed : 1970
Status : Closed
Name meaning : Unknown, probably after the property owner

Type : Station
Line : South Line
Distance from Hobart : 137.400km
Opened : 1st November 1876
Closed : 1981 (station)
Status : In use (loop)
Name meaning : Named by Governor Lachlan Macquarie - in honour of H. M. Buchanan Esqr. – that being the name of his Seat on Loch-Lomond in Scotland.
Notes : Location had watering facilities and a crossing loop, the station was used from 1999 for tourist trains. Station demolished. Location had a Refreshment Room that opened 1/10/1889. In 1943, the Ross Railway Station had a small upgrade to include a canteen that supplied food and beverages for travelling servicemen.

Type : Siding
Line : South Line
Distance from Hobart : 135.800km
Opened : c1942
Closed : c1947
Status : Closed
Name meaning : After the property owner
Notes :

Type : Halt
Line : South Line
Distance from Hobart : 130.900km
Opened : 1925
Closed : 1971
Status : Closed
Name meaning : After the house at the locality.
Notes : Passenger facilities only as Kermode (also known for a short time as Camp). Camp Siding was situated half a mile south (also known as Military Siding (Mona Vale)) in 1932 and was opened for the Dept of Defence. This siding shifted to Kermode in 1936 and retained the Camp Siding name.

Type : Halt
Line : South Line
Distance from Hobart : 130.000km
Opened : circa 1906
Closed : 1974
Status : Closed
Name meaning : After the house at the locality.
Notes : Passenger facilities only, no platform. Last use wasa  tour train to the house in 1972.

Type : Station
Line : Apsley Branch
Distance from Brighton Junction : Unknown
Opened : Proposed, never opened
Closed : Proposed, never opened
Status : Proposed, never opened
Name meaning : After Bothwell in Lanarkshire, Scotland.
Notes : The intent had always been to extend the line to Bothwell – it is an academic exercise to suppose that this may have been a factor that would have made the line more profitable and kept it open longer.
Surveys of the line were undertaken, however.

Type : Station
Line : Apsley Branch
Distance from Brighton Junction : 42.300km
Opened : 22 April 1891
Closed : 29 September 1947
Status : Closed
Name meaning : Unknown
Notes : Aspley was the terminus of the line (despite sporadic plans to extend it further to Bothwell). An isolated and small locality even now, it was more-so during the lifetime of the line and even up until near the end of the railway it remained quite small with the railway facilities being a major part of the village.
There were four cottages provided for railway staff, an overhead goods shed opposite the station building (similar to that in Kempton), a station building that was of a similar design to those on the rest of the line, although the station was sited on the Down side loop. The goods shed was located on the Up side loop and the mainline ran between both loops with a crossover situated near the stockyards (this was on a spur that extended off the goods loop). The main line ended at a dead end with a crossing to the carriage shed spur.  On the Up side was a spur leading to a 45' turntable (the second, and largest, on the line), an ash pit, a coal stage, a raised iron water tank and an engine shed constructed from corrugated iron that could hold one locomotive.
After 1930 (with the cessation of regular passenger services) the carriage shed was demolished and the Down loop truncated.
Intending passengers from Bothwell needed to catch a stage coach (initially) that connected with the trains, by 1916 this had been changed to a motor omnibus.
The station gained importance and was busy during the construction of Waddamana B hydro-electric power station from 1939 as construction material was delivered to Aspley and then trucked to the building site.

Type : Halt
Line : Apsley Branch
Distance from Brighton Junction : 38.629km
Opened : Unknown
Closed : Unknown
Status : Closed
Name meaning : Probably after the landholder
Notes : This was a private halt located 5 metres to the Down side of the location known as
"Water Tank".

Type : Tank
Line : Apsley Branch
Distance from Brighton Junction : 38.624km
Opened : 1920
Closed : Unknown, likely with the line
Status : Closed
Name meaning : n/a
Notes : Near to the 24 mile mark (38.624km) a corrugated iron tank was erected in 1920 that was supplied by a pump from the nearby Jordan River to allowed steam engines to be watered.
This was the only place on the line between Dysart and Aspley that water could be reliably obtained.
Use of corrugated tanks for water facilities on the Tasmanian railways was common, particularly on minor branch lines that it was not cost effective to construct a full blown cast iron, timber or steel tank.

Type : Halt
Line : Apsley Branch
Distance from Brighton Junction : 37.417km
Opened : 1921 (as Melton Vale), renamed Wylie's in 1928
Closed : Unknown
Status : Closed
Name meaning : After the property owner
Notes : Located at 23 and a quarter miles (37.417km), this was a stopping place that first appeared in 1921 as Melton Vale, being renamed in 1928 to Wylie's.
It was very likely a halt that served a local property owned by one D. Wylie who also owned other land in the area, and it is believed to have had a small sleeper and rammed earth platform on the Up side of the line.

Type : Station
Line : Apsley Branch
Distance from Brighton Junction : 33.856km
Opened : 22 April 1891
Closed : 29 September 1947
Status : Closed
Name meaning : After the location (Melton Mowbray)
Notes : The location had a timber station similar to that at Pontville located on the Up side; this was later replaced by a simple shelter.
Facilities included a Down side loop siding with a 30' by 20' corrugated iron goods shed with a timber platform and loading ramp.  A short spur led to stockyard with a loading ramp and cattle and sheep pens. Housing for railway employees existed on the site.

Type : Halt
Line : Apsley Branch
Distance from Brighton Junction : 32.688km
Opened : 1923
Closed : 29 September 1947
Status : Closed
Name meaning : After the associated property
Notes : This was a private passenger only siding and was a quarter of a mile north from Mount Vernon (32.688km from Brighton Junction).
It is doubtful that any facilities were ever built here apart from a simple platform, the formation of the line can still be seen within the property boundaries.
Private sidings and halts were common on other lines both within Tasmania and on the mainland, they usually served as cream platforms or as school platforms.
Private residence sidings (such as this one) were much rarer and were (usually) the result of a wealthy landholder petitioning the relevant railway authority to build it

Type : Siding
Line : Apsley Branch
Distance from Brighton Junction : 32.286km
Opened : 1927
Closed : 29 September 1947
Status : Closed
Name meaning : After the associated property
Notes : Also referred to as "Mount Vernon Siding"
Located at 20 miles and 5 chains (32.286km) from Brighton, this site was a late addition to the line having only been constructed in 1927. The location had a facing 163' dead end siding on the Up side that serviced a stockyard. Passengers were picked up and dropped off here by request, but no station facilities were provided.
Separate sheep and cattle races were provided. The location was one that was requested to be kept open for trucking after the line closed.

Not to be confused with Mount Vernon Gates