Type : Junction
Distance from Deloraine : 4.829km
Opened : Prior to 1890 (as Chudleigh Road), renamed Chudleigh Junction 5/4/1890 renamed Lemana Junction 1906
Closed : 1984
Status : Closed
Name meaning : Unknown
Notes : Lemana Junction station (alt. 241m) originally consisted of a passenger platform and building on the eastern side of the Western line and a goods loop and trailing dead end on the western side.
When the Mole Creek branch was built the passenger platform was moved to the east and an additional track was provided for the Western Line, the original Western Line becoming the branch for 1.1 km northwest-wards to the point at which the two routes actually diverged. Facing cross-overs were provided between the two lines at the western end of the station and in the 1940s the section of the branch running parallel with the Western Line was relaid with heavier rails so that it could be used as a refuge for goods trains hauled by Q class 4-8—2s and Australian Standard Garratts. By
1959, the facing crossover from the branch to the Western line had been moved several hundred metres north-westward to lengthen the crossing
loop.
The original station building was destroyed by fire in 1912-13 and replaced by a new weatherboard building. Metric distance posts (replacing the original mileage posts measured from Deloraine) were installed on the branch in 1982 with the 0 kilometre
post at the platform/centre road turnout at the Deloraine end of the yard.
The station survived to be one of the last combined stations and post offices in Tasmania but the station building and yard were both demolished after traffic on the branch ceased.
Lemana Junction, 1945, the crossover gave access to the Mole Creek line (Buckland Collection)
Location of the junction (Google Maps)
Remains at Lemana Junction
Lemana Junction, 1968
Lemana Junction down side Up AREA Special CCS 25 (7/3/1964) (Weston Langford)
Lemana Junction layout
Last passenger train to Mole Creek at Lemana Junction 18/10/1978. This was a tour train. (H J W Stokes)
Lemana Junction 14/4/1985 (Warren Bamfield)
Lemana Junction, 1/9/1985 (Roderick Smith)
Deloraine to Mole Creek train, Lemana, Tasmania, 12 January 1962 (Katie Smith)
Lemana Junction from QVMAG
Lemana, Tasmania, 24 April 1962 QVMAG 1997_P_4695
Australian Railway Heritage Society (A.R.H.S.) special excursion train, Lemana, Tasmania, 19 April 1965.
" At Lemana Junction" July 1917 Weekly Courier