Type : Station
Line : Western Line
Distance from Launceston : 024.800km
Location : -41.588718, 147.115883
Opened : 1876
Closed : Unknown
Status : Closed
Name meaning :
Notes : Location had a triangle (wye) and crossing loop and sidings. Location largely obliterated by Incitec Pivot and Koppers. A short dead end siding and a longer dead end siding remain at the location. Station building was relocated into the town in the mid 1980s and later burnt down.
Longford layout (1930/5) (NAA)
Location (LISTmap)
Longford railway bridge, Weekly Courier Jan 22nd 1914
Longford Railway Station 1922
Pillars c1930 from binocular image Libraries TAS SD_ILS187996
Lonford in 1983 (Maria Grist)
Longford Railway Bridge with its newly installed replica pillars. (2026)
Longford Railway Station (#123), c. 1915
Tasmanian Government Railways (TGR) loco B5 with passenger train at Longford (northern Tasmania).. Wright Goldthorpe at right. (University of Newcastle) (c1915)
Longford Railway Station, (#123) - 1903
Photo: Leslie Weeding
Longford (2/12/1968) (Libraries Tas)
Ganger's trolley at Longford, 8th February 1971 (A Grunbach)
Centennary special at Longford, 8th February 1971 (A Grunbach)