Type : Station
Line : Sorell Line
Distance from Bellerive : 000.000km
Location :
Opened : 2nd May 1892
Closed : 30 June 1926
Status : Closed
Name meaning : French for "beautiful shore"
Notes : Loco servicing facilities, ashpit, coal stage, weighbridge, goods shedcrossing loop (three lines on wharf). 100 metre causeway led on to a 90 metre wharf. Station was on the wharf. Some remnants still exist.
Bellerive Station 1892 to 1926
I have several old postcards of Bellerive, this being the best image of the railway station. The other two photos I purloined from John Houghton's excellent book, The Sorell Line - Return Trip.
The book was published by the Bellerive Historical Society in 2019. I believe it's still in print. An excellent read, recommended.
The postcard was published in (I estimate) the 1910s, McV. & L. Series No. 79. (Peter Bond)
Station Pier at Kangaroo Bay (Bellerive)
Location of Bellerive station (LISTmap)
Bellerive station yards witha lone carriage. (undated, uncredited)
Bellerive railway station (Jack Thwaites and Family) (not dated)
TGR locomotives (exTMLR) A+1 and D+ in engine shed, Bellerive, after closure of the Bellierive Sorell railway [picture]., ( [unnumbered]), (from Buckland collection of railway transport photographs [selected items])
Lantern slide of Kangaroo Bay and the railway pier. (Maritime Museum of Tasmania)
Bellerive from Rosny, head of Kangaroo Bay, 1921
Photograph shows the old Sorell railway which ran from Bellerive, opened in 1892, closed 1926.
(Maritime Museum of Tasmania)
Ex-TMLR D+2 at Bellerive, in the 1920's. TGR photo, Ted Lidster collection
Ex Tasmanian Main Line Railway goods wagons, in use on the isolated Bellerive to Sorell railway, in the yard at Bellerive. 31/10/1912 (uncredited)
The train station at Bellerive in 1910. (Bellerive Historical Society)
Bellerive station pier, Jonathan Davis collection.
Bellerive yards, Max Walker collection