Type : Station
Line : South Line
Distance from Hobart : 071.300km
Opened : 1881 (as Flat Top), renamed Rhyndaston
Closed : 1990
Status : Closed
Name meaning : As Rhyndaston it is believed to be a Welsh term for "mouth of the hole", and was conferred by Charles Meredith, the Colonial Treasurer and is derived from the railway tunnel nearby.
Notes : Had watering facilities (wooden water tanks served by the railway dam nearby), a crossing loop (lifted), goods loading facilities, station building (Up side of line). The station building still survives having been relocated on a property on Rhyndaston Rd towards Colebrook. The ganger's residence, gatekeeper's cottage and station master's cottage remain in situ. A hotel (Tunnel Hotel) was sited next to the station.
Location (LISTmap)
Location of the station in July 2023 (Google)
Relocated station building, July 2023 (Google)
Rhyndaston station - 30/04/1904 (Leslie Weeding photograph)
Location diagram (undated) (Libraries Tas)
Up express at Rhyndaston, 1/2/1945 (Libraries Tas)
Rhyndaston (circa 1900) (State Library of Victoria)
Plan 7812379 (671) TGR - Main Line - Rhyndaston Station - approximate plan from tape measurements and sketch [Ink, pencil and watercolour drawing] (Libraries TAS)
Plan 7812403 (7206) TGR - Rhyndaston water supply tank - plan and section - includes plan of site [pencil drawing on linen] (1911) (Libraries TAS)
Australian Railway Historical Society special excursion, Rhyndaston station, Tasmania, 28 March 1970. David Lidster photo
Standard TGR huon pine water tanks at Rhyndaston railway station, early 1900's
David Lidster collection
Tunnel boring machine in Rhyndaston yards (undated) (Grunbach Collection)
R class on Up express at Rhyndaston (1/02/1945) (Buckland - copyright expired)
Rhyndaston Station during Tunnel Project (Geoffrey Love)
Rhyndaston (undated) (Ros Erends)
Rhyndaston, 6/3/65 (John Stephens)
The Tasman Limited in Winter: view from the cab. With much of the difficult sections of the Main Line behind it, the train rounds the big curve out of the tunnel and into the yard at Rhyndaston. The station sits on the right of the Main Line whilst a wagon fitted with a high platform for inspections and maintenance of the tunnel sits in the loop siding. A water tank is nearby. In the early years of the TGR the legendary Mrs Delaney ran a small shop at Rhyndaston and regularly boarded the express service to Parattah where she would alight and set-up a stall selling apples of various quality to passengers. (Photo, Peter Fell, TGR locomotive engineman)