Type : Station
Line : Chudleigh/Mole Creek Branch
Distance from Deloraine : 17.703km
Opened : 5/4/1890
Closed : Prior to 1982
Status : Closed
Name meaning : Unknown
Notes : Yard consisted of a passing loop, goods loop and goods shed with a stock race on a dead end siding, loco shed with ash pit and turntable. Station was originally attended and had a three room building. Goods shed removed (circa 1930s) and stock siding rebuilt with a low concrete loading platform. Post Office included with station. Chudleigh station (13.7 km; alt. 261 m) was a mirror image of the
layout at Needles, although the station building had three rooms and a caretaker.
The goods shed was later removed but the stockyard was rebuilt with a concrete platform in the 1950s.
Chudleigh layout
Looking across to the (now obliterated) one time location of the station (2023)
Tulloch diesel hydraulic 0-6-0 undertaking weed spraying at Chudleigh, 5/9/1969 (H J W Stokes/ARHS)
Tasmanian M class No. 5 at Chudleigh station, 29/3/1970 (J Ward/ARHS)
Chudleigh Station (Clinton Brown)
Chudleigh - Holden Tour of Tasmania (16/10/1968) (Tas Libraries)