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Type : Station
Line : Derwent Valley Line
Distance from Bridgewater Junction : 066.900km
Location : -42.754032, 146.624875
Opened : July 2nd 1936 (as Junee)
Closed : Unknown
Status : Closed
Name meaning : Unknown
Notes : The railhead existed here prior to the town being built in 1940, in 1943 the location was renamed to Maydena and the station was built in 1945, a crossing loop remains at the site. Location contained a goods loop with shed.

Type : Halt
Line : Derwent Valley Line
Distance from Bridgewater Junction : 066.900km
Location : -42.749039, 146.634024
Opened : Circa 1940
Closed : Circa 1956
Status : Closed
Name meaning : After the nearby creek of the same name
Notes : Passenger only stopping place

Type : Halt
Line : Derwent Valley Line
Distance from Bridgewater Junction : 065.800km
Location : -42.743051, 146.642974
Opened : 1917 (As Maydena)
Closed : 1981
Status : Closed
Name meaning : Unknown
Notes : Between 1917 and 1936 this was the terminus for the line. Changed name from Maydena to Fitzgerald in 1919. The location had loco servicing facilities, a crossing loop, watering facilities, a triangle (wye), a goods loop, goods shed, loading ramp, sheep and cattle race, a separate siding (dead end) servicing a timber ramp, a second timber loading ramp at the dead end of the line and a station building.

Type : Halt
Line : Derwent Valley Line
Distance from Bridgewater Junction : 062.400km
Location : -42.717784, 146.688433
Opened : Circa 1924
Closed : Circa 1971
Status : Closed
Name meaning : After the nearby falls of the same name
Notes : Passenger halt only

Type : Station
Line : Derwent Valley Line
Distance from Bridgewater Junction : 063.000km
Location : -42.720744, 146.681513
Opened : 1919
Closed : Circa 1977
Status : Closed
Name meaning : corruption of an Aboriginal word 'tiennah' for bandicoot.
Notes : 875' crossing loop. The location had a waiting shed and WC on the main line with a timber loading ramp on a short dead end siding that had originally been a loop siding that led to the Huon Timber Co Mill, this was an 819' siding. The siding had been truncated by the 1930s.

Type : Station
Line : Derwent Valley Line
Distance from Bridgewater Junction : 060.100km
Location : -42.717745, 146.688444
Opened : 1919
Closed : Circa 1960
Status : Closed
Name meaning : Unknown
Notes : 430' 7" loop siding, waiting shed (without platform) was on the main line. Station building still exists.

Type : Halt/Siding
Line : Derwent Valley Line
Distance from Bridgewater Junction : 060.100km
Location : -42.714781, 146.693079
Opened : 1920 (as Sharp's)
Closed : Circa 1975
Status : Closed
Name meaning : Unknown
Notes : Changed name to Sharp's Siding 1936 (today it is listed as Sharpe's Siding unofficially), location had a 99' loop siding and a timber tramway once terminated at the siding. Loop had been truncated to a dead end siding before the 1960s.

Type : Halt/Siding
Line : Derwent Valley Line
Distance from Bridgewater Junction : 059.500km
Location : -42.712266, 146.702880
Opened : Circa 1919 (as Arcadian Home)
Closed : Circa 1971
Status : Closed
Name meaning : Unknown
Notes : Changed name to Arcadian Siding circa 1935, located near to the junction of Bluetop Rd and Gordon River Rd. 319' 3" dead end siding. Location had a timber platform with a  waiting shed on the main line. Siding removed prior to 1968. Station shelter has been relocated to a nearby property.

Type : Halt/Siding
Line : Derwent Valley Line
Distance from Bridgewater Junction : 057.700km
Location : -42.707429, 146.709034
Opened : Circa 1926
Closed : Circa 1959
Status : Closed
Name meaning : Unknown
Notes : The locality still exists as an unofficial name. This was a small (original temporary) siding on the
Derwent Valley Line about 3 Km. west of National Park. An unsealed road named Newbury Road, branches off the Gordon River Road about the place where the siding existed.

Type : Halt/Siding
Line : Derwent Valley Line
Distance from Bridgewater Junction : 057.400km
Location : -42.699225, 146.712255
Opened : 1919 (as Burnleys or Burnley's Siding)
Closed : Circa 1956
Status : Closed
Name meaning : Unknown
Notes : Isolated siding (likely for timber), was also a stopping halt for passengers. Changed name at an unknown date from Burnley's Siding to Burnleys. This was a siding on the Derwent Valley Line. It was ~4 Km. west of National Park, near where the line crosses the Burnley Creek as it flows into the Derwent River. The location is still an unofficial name.

Type : Siding
Line : Derwent Valley Line
Distance from Bridgewater Junction : 056.200km
Location : -42.687397, 146.714607
Opened : 1919
Closed : Circa 1925
Status : Closed
Name meaning : Unknown
Notes : This was a short lived timber siding

Type : Station
Line : Derwent Valley Line
Distance from Bridgewater Junction : 055.600km
Location : -42.684841, 146.720712
Opened : 1918
Closed : 1995
Status : Re-used
Name meaning : After the location
Notes : 419' crossing loop, 223' goods loop (with a loading ramp), tour trains ran to the station up until 2003, station building demolished circa 1981 (a modern small replacement is on the site)

Type : Siding
Line : Derwent Valley Line
Distance from Bridgewater Junction : 055.200km
Location : -42.684320, 146.724480
Opened : 1926
Closed : 1942
Status : Closed
Name meaning : Unknown
Notes :

Type : Siding
Line : Derwent Valley Line
Distance from Bridgewater Junction : 054.800km
Location : -42.681974, 146.727179
Opened : 1918 (as Crook's Siding)
Closed : 1964
Status : Closed
Name meaning : Unknown
Notes : Renamed to Hollydene circa 1923

Type : Halt
Line : Derwent Valley Line
Distance from Bridgewater Junction : 053.900km
Location :
Opened : 1947
Closed : 1952
Status : Closed
Name meaning : Unknown
Notes : Short-lived passenger only stopping place (likely a private stop)

Type : Siding
Line : Derwent Valley Line
Distance from Bridgewater Junction : 053.400km
Location : -42.683966, 146.732760
Opened : 1918 as Belcher's
Closed : 1964
Status : Closed
Name meaning : Unknown
Notes : 101' 3" loop siding with stock yards, waiting shed on main line.

The 19th-century convict tramway, in Tasmania, used trusted prisoners from the Port Arthur convict settlement as motive power. Constructed to bypass the hazardous sea voyage from Hobart to Port Arthur, it was the first "railed way" in Australia to carry passengers and general freight.

The line, of unknown gauge, was constructed under the supervision of the penal settlement's commandant, Captain Charles O'Hara Booth.Opened in 1836, it ran for 8 kilometres (5 miles) from Oakwood to Taranna. An unconfirmed report said that the line continued to Eaglehawk Neck; if this were so, its length would have been more than doubled.

The tramway carried freight, with a capacity of half a ton, and passengers, on wooden rails. The track formation was not levelled but followed the natural elevation of the ground; on descending a hill the runners were permitted to ride on the vehicle. One team of convicts – usually three in number – could complete up to three round trips per day, carrying freight in both directions. If he proved trustworthy, a convict was eventually rewarded with permission to access less restricted parts of the colony.

The date of the line's closure is unknown; the penal settlement closed in 1877.

Type : Siding
Line : Derwent Valley Line
Distance from Bridgewater Junction : 049.000km
Location : -42.682331, 146.784130
Opened : 1909 as Russell
Closed : Unknown
Status : Closed, Re-used
Name meaning : Unknown
Notes : Name changed from Russell to Westerway 1918/19 when the town was renamed from Russell to Westerway. Location had loco servicing facilities, a triangle (wye) and a 1,150' crossing loop as well as a goods loop, goods shed, sheep and cattle pens, timber loading facilities (on a siding at the top of the triangle). Terminus of the line between 1909 and 1916.

Type : Siding
Line : Derwent Valley Line
Distance from Bridgewater Junction : 047.600km
Location : -42.677500, 146.795135
Opened : 1949
Closed : 1957
Status : Closed
Name meaning : Unknown
Notes :

Type : Siding
Line : Derwent Valley Line
Distance from Bridgewater Junction : 046.300km
Location : -42.676463, 146.812194
Opened : Unknown (1916?)
Closed : Circa 1965
Status : Closed
Name meaning : Unknown
Notes : A platform for milk cans was at the site in the 1930s, a 223' 6" loop siding.