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Campania - Geoffrey Edward Love

Perway Department:
Railset, 8244 with a loaded railset stowed in Taree yard ready to depart early on Monday morning to unload rails at various locations between Taree & Kempsey on Sunday the 6-12-2020 whilst 7MB4 sits in the loop waiting for the passage of NT31.
Greg Riddel

Hobart 1950s (uncredited)

Special Train Notice:
NL 81 has terminated at Wauchope & 4490 run around to form NL 82 which has been stowed in the Timber siding Wauchope on Saturday 6-04-1996, this train being a RTM special to Timbertown museum, with the driver on this occasion being the late Ross Blanch.
Greg Riddel

44214 Candy staff change at The Risk signal box , near the border loop , Friday 12/11/1993 (Don Trevena)

The western end of Lismore railway station today looking towards Union St. crossing. (Ian Kilmartin)

Type : Halt
Line : South Line
Distance from Hobart : unknown
Opened : Unknown
Closed : Unknown
Status : Closed
Name meaning : Unknown - likely after the location
Notes : Between Reynold's and Colebrook, this may have been a halt that served what is now the Notre Dame Priory. The location existed between the 1940s and 1970s.

Location (LISTMap)

Type : Halt
Line : South Line
Distance from Hobart : 058.500km
Opened : Unknown
Closed : Unknown
Status : Closed
Name meaning : Likely after the property it served
Notes : This location is mentioned between 1921 and 1948 and then once more in the 1957 WTT. Also called Reynold's Siding. Hill nearby still retains the name of "Siding Hill".

Type : Halt
Line : South Line
Distance from Hobart : 053.900km
Opened : Unknown
Closed : Unknown
Status : Closed
Name meaning : After the property it served
Notes : This location is mentioned once in the 1939 WTT, it was sited at the location of the later Danby Siding

Danby Siding (crossing loop) site plan, 1955 (State Library of Tas)

With the countryside nice and green and the spring time lighting quite pretty, the sleepy wayside site of Danby Siding awakes with the passage of No 34 log train late in the evening behind TR units 16 + 14 and the vociferous DQ class 2008 on Thursday 11th September, 2018. Photo by Steve Bromley.

An aerial view looking down on Danby Siding where the ballast train has paused to pick up it's crew to start ballasting operations between Danby and Colebrook.

Wednesday 7th September, 2016.

(TRains in Tasmania)

Location (Mapcarta)

Type : Loop/Siding
Line : South Line
Distance from Hobart : 053.900km
Opened : 1941
Closed : 1984
Status : Closed
Name meaning : Unknown
Notes : Only used when required by small farms in the district, the main farm named "Stockdale" was in the Coal River Valley. Location was the near to the site of a fatal derailment 26/10/1951 (both driver and fireman killed) - the train was travelling at around 40mph (double the 20mph speed limit) and overturned after derailing.