Type : Station
Distance from Deloraine : 10.461km
Opened : 5/4/1890
Closed : 1984
Status : Closed
Name meaning : Unknown
Notes : Extant timetables show this as a request stop. Needles station (5.7 km 303 m) had a shelter and platform on the northern side and a loop and trailing dead end on the southern side. The corrugated iron goods shed beside the loop had been removed by 1930, while the dead end and the stockyard it served were
derelict by the early 1960s and later removed.
Location of the one-time platform at Needles located near the intersection of Mole Creek Rd and Dairy Plains Rd.
CCS 21 at Needles in 1961, the derelict goods siding can be seen. (C G Manning)
Needles (construction diagram) (Tas Libraries)
Aerial image of Needles station yard on 22-3-1976. (Jenny Smith)
Cottage at Needles, 1899 (Northern Tasmania Camera Club)
Needles - Holden Tour of Tasmania (16/10/1968) (Tas Libraries)
Needles (undated clipping)
Needles (undated)
Z1 crossing the main road near to the site of the one-time Needles yard, 16th April 1982 (Michael Dix)