Mole Creek

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Type : Station
Distance from Deloraine : 25.347km
Opened : 5/4/1890
Closed : 1984   
Status : Closed
Name meaning : After the location
Notes : Until it was rearranged in 1972 Mole Creek was typical of the smaller termini laid out by the TGR between 1885 and 1892.

On the northern side there was a flat roof weatherboard station building, later replaced by a smaller structure with a sloping roof. On the southern side there were two loops, the outer of which served a corrugated iron line a side goods sited (later replaced by a gantry) and continued to a dead-end serving a stockyard. The locomotive
siding branched off the Deloraine end of the outer loop to a 13.7 metre turntable, pit and corrugated iron shed for one locomotive. The shed was leased after the withdrawal of the railcar but the turntable remained in use until 1964. Water was obtained from a
standpipe at the eastern end of the In 1972, the southern side of the yard was remodelled to accommodate the APPM log terminal. The locomotive and stockyard siding were removed and a 157 metre log platform installed along the outer loop. The
inner loop was again extended for the full length of the outer loop and at facing crossover installed from the platform road to the inner loop at the western end of the passenger platform. A loading bank and travelling gantry crane were installed for lime
stone traffic on the head shunt to the west of the station, which ended just short of the creek which gave the town its name.

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Limestone loading bank at Mole Creek (remnant remains at end of line)

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Mole Creek station, 2023

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Location of Mole Creek station (LISTmap)

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Mole Creek layouts in 1930 and 1977

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CCS 25 on the Mole Creek turntable, 6/3/1964 (one of the last uses of the turntable) (Buckland Collection)

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CCS 25 shunts at Mole Creek 5/1/1962 (Stokes)

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Mole Creek gantry crane at the end of the line in 1977 (Stokes)

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Log loading at Mole Creek, 3/11/1977 (Stokes)

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Mole Creek 2/7/1914 (Weekly Courier)

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Tour loco being turned at Mole Creek 7/3/1964 (G W Lillico)

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Tour train at Mole Creek, 7/4/1965 (Grunbach)

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Mole Creek construction diagram (Tas Libraries)

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Mole Creek (undated)

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Mole Creek, 2020, Pete Heininger