Type : Station
Line : Derwent Valley Line
Distance from Bridgewater Junction : 018.300km
Location :
Opened : 1st September 1887
Closed : 31/12/1974 (passenger services)/In use.
Status : Re-used
Name meaning : Named when the settlers from abandoned Norfolk Island were resettled in the district. Original name was "The Hills".
Notes : Currently home to The Derwent Valley Railway Preservation Society Inc. Location had loco servicing, water facilities, a crossing loop, a triangle (wye) and a turntable. Sidings were : Pioneer Woodware Siding (at the 18.9km mark from 1925 to 1975,), Weighbridge Siding (at the 19km mark from 1967 until 1986).
New Norfolk location (LISTmap)
Goods shed at New Norfolk in 1888 (Archives Tas)
New Norfolk circa 1950 (Archives Tas)
TGR New Norfolk. Cowburn images.
New Norfolk (Tas.) - ARHS Vic. Maydena tour, M3. Roderick Smith.
Hume Steel, TGR, New Norfolk railway yard I'm Thinking but I'm not sure if this was part of the railway yard back then or not. Someone may know. ?? Cowburn images.
DP27 waiting at New Norfolk station before returning to Hobart in March 1967.
Photographer was Keith Atkinson
H5 at the Derwent Valley Railway station. New Norfolk. (Lynette Graham)
Yard layout (1930/5) (National Archives)
New Norfolk station plans (type K) (Libraries Tas)
New Norfolk, 8/11/1968 (Holden Tour of Tasmania) (National Archives)