Type : Station
Line : Sorell Line
Distance from Bellerive : 023.600km
Location :
Opened : 2 May 1892
Closed : 30 June 1926
Status : Closed
Name meaning : Named after Lieutenant Governor William Sorell by Governor Lachlan Macquarie
Notes : Watering facilities (courtesy of a nearby railway dam), crossing loop (dead end), loco servicing facilities, carriage shed, goods shed and stock pens. No turntable was provided so trains ran in reverse on the return trip to Bellerive. Station building remains (private use) as does the carriage shed (Men's Shed). Both survived the 1967 bushfires.
Here are a few b&w photos taken on 9 January 1966. Some of these images appear in the book 'The Bellerive to Sorell Railway Revisited, Second Edition', published by the Bellerive Historical Society Inc. in 2007.
Maree Alomes-McCulley states : This is a photo of Sorell Station, Station Lane, Sorell. It closed in 1929 then it became a private residence. My Grandfather and Grandparents own it from about 1948 to late 1984. It was a great place to fossick around growing up.
Sorell layout
Sorell Railway Station way back when. Photographer and date unknown.
Sorell from Weston Hill showing railway sheds / Photographer A A Rollings
Photograph - Train at Sorell Railway Station (Album 3 Page 49) Albert Archer Rollings, photographer (1910-1930)
Panoramic view of Sorell, showing railway station / Photographer A A Rollings. Not dated, but prior to 1910.
Sorell station with officials and locals (1892) (The Tasmanian Mail)