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#61

Stancombe - Deloraine / Re: Westbury

Last post by admin - September 27, 2026, 06:41:40 AM

Departure of the Westbury, Detachment of the 93rd Infantry for the south. (Weekly Courier September 10th 1914)

#62

Stancombe - Deloraine / Re: Westbury

Last post by admin - September 27, 2026, 06:41:02 AM

Location (LISTmap)

#63

Stancombe - Deloraine / Re: Westbury

Last post by admin - September 27, 2026, 06:40:20 AM

Westbury layout (1930/5)

#64

Stancombe - Deloraine / Westbury

Last post by admin - September 27, 2026, 06:39:59 AM

Type : Station
Line : Western Line
Distance from Launceston : 056.600km
Location : -41.524863, 146.843080
Opened : 10th February 1871
Closed : October 1974 (station)
Status : Closed
Name meaning : After the location
Notes : The timber station was built for the Launceston and Western Railway Company. The official opening day ceremony was held on Friday 10th. February 1871. The station closed for business in October 1978 and the building was demolished in mid-1984. A dead end the location is still there (this was the Public Work Siding (closed 1986, re-used from 2003 for heritage trains). Location had a passing loop, loop siding (later converted to a dead end siding), cattle yards, separate stock yards, station building with concrete facing and a men's urinal.

#65

Stancombe - Deloraine / Re: Hogg's Lane

Last post by admin - September 27, 2026, 06:26:05 AM

The Tasman Limited proceeds through Hoggs Lane, between Westbury and Hagley, 1 July 1965 with X28 hauling a single ACS car and DA van. Clyde Coombe photo (Queen Victoria Museum & Art Gallery QVM1997:P:4596).

#66

Stancombe - Deloraine / Re: Hogg's Lane

Last post by admin - September 27, 2026, 06:25:20 AM

Location (LISTmap)

#67

Stancombe - Deloraine / Re: Hogg's Lane

Last post by admin - September 27, 2026, 06:22:17 AM

Layout (1930/5) (NAA)

#68

Stancombe - Deloraine / Hogg's Lane

Last post by admin - September 27, 2026, 06:21:52 AM

Type : Station
Line : Western Line
Distance from Launceston : 053.000km
Location : -41.530039, 146.882228
Opened : 1890
Closed : 1970
Status : Closed
Name meaning : After the location
Notes : Station was sited closer to Hagley than Hagley station. Site had a loop siding servicing a goods shed and a concrete faced platform with a weatherboard waiting shed. A railway cottage was at the site. The site has been largely obliterated by the Bass Highway changes.

#69

Stancombe - Deloraine / Re: Oaks

Last post by admin - September 27, 2026, 06:10:52 AM

Goods shed prior to renovation in 2008 (Brian Stewart)

#70

Stancombe - Deloraine / Re: Hagley

Last post by admin - September 27, 2026, 06:08:42 AM

Station building, repurposed (Anne-Maree Szekely)