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Type : Siding
Line : North Coast Line
Distance from Sydney : 610.404km
Location :
Opened : 21/10/1968
Closed : 1989
Status : Closed
Name meaning :
Notes : The Banana Republic Distributors shed was built ship bananas to Sydney. Dead end siding, 430 ft in length, down side, facing down.

Type : Siding
Line : North Coast Line
Distance from Sydney : 604.977km
Location :
Opened : 1913
Closed : 1920
Status : Closed
Name meaning : After the business at the location
Notes : CHT operated a second siding on the North Coast line it predated Boambee Station by two years. The siding remained in operation until 1920. Nondaville was the junction for an 8km long 914mm or 3ft gauge line serving a sawmill located in the area of England's Road.
CHT had planned to run the tramway from Boambee Mill to the jetty district but this plan was revised after the announcement of the North Coast Railway.
Delays with obtaining rails frustrated CHT who had to transship their timber from the end of their tramway at Maharatta to the port of Coffs Harbour until the delays on Coffs Harbour to Raleigh section were overcome. The siding came into CHT ownership on 1/3/1918. Some sources refer to this as "Hendaville", though no records exist in the NSWGR that confirm this.

Type : Siding
Line : North Coast Line
Distance from Sydney : 212.689km
Location : -32.6054972507842, 151.6100370009011
Opened : Unknown
Closed : Unknown but after 1961
Status : Closed
Name meaning : After the business at the location
Notes :

Type : Other
Line : North Coast Line
Distance from Sydney : 205.191km
Location : -32.64936626267347, 151.58261954239111
Opened : 13th January 1929
Closed : Unknown
Status : Closed
Name meaning : No primary reference
Notes : Mentioned in WN4 of 1929

Type : Station
Line : South Line
Distance from Hobart : 199.100km
Opened : 1876 as Evandale Junction, renamed to Western Junction circa 1912/13
Closed : n/a, station - unknown (probably 1975). Station demolished 1983.
Status : In use
Name meaning :
Notes : Location had a triangle (still exists), watering facilities. crossing loop and refreshment room. Signal levers relocated to Don River railway and in storage. Signal box relocated to a private property in Evandale, no longer exists. Junction for Western Line and South Line. Crossing loop and loop siding still exists.

Type : Station
Line : South Line
Distance from Hobart : 196.500km
Opened : 1876
Closed : Unknown (probably 1978)
Status : Closed
Name meaning :
Notes : The Tasmanian Main Line Company opened a narrow (1,067 mm) gauge line from Hobart to Evandale where it connected with the broad (1,600 mm) gauge Launceston and Western Railway from Launceston and Deloraine, built in 1871. It remained a break-of-gauge station until the Evandale-Deloraine line was converted to narrow gauge in 1888. The station had a crossing loop and watering facilities. As built, a dead end siding off the loop held a goods shed, cattle yards and a horse dock (this was later changed to a loop siding). The platform was 150 feet in length.

Type : Station
Line : South Line
Distance from Hobart : 188.600m (crossing at 188.650)
Opened : 1877
Closed : 1975
Status : Closed
Name meaning : After the property associated with it
Notes : Short Down side platform (remains still exist), site had a goods shed on a loop siding and a stock race on the same siding across the road that accessed the station.

Type : Siding
Line : South Line
Distance from Hobart : 186.500m
Opened : Opened as "Orchard Siding" in 1929, renamed "Orchard Crossing" in 1948
Closed : circa 1953
Status : Closed
Name meaning : Probably a direct naming based on what was at the location.
Notes :

Type : Station
Line : South Line
Distance from Hobart : 182.300m
Opened : 1872 as Snake banks, renamed to Powranna in 1914
Closed : 1993
Status : Closed
Name meaning : Aboriginal word for "black snake".
Notes : A crossing loop once existed at the site. Station was closed when a deviation was constructed. The original station was demolished and moved (a larger station being constructed) in 1916. The site had two cottages, a goods shed and several small sheds as well as a cattle yard. Original goods loop was 125' in length.

Type : Siding
Line : South Line
Distance from Hobart : 182.200m
Opened : Circa 1924
Closed : Circa 1940
Status : Closed
Name meaning : Likely after the owner of the property
Notes : This siding was only 100 metres from Powranna station

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 :