Tyenna

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Type : Station
Line : Derwent Valley Line
Distance from Bridgewater Junction : 063.000km
Location : -42.720744, 146.681513
Opened : 1919
Closed : Circa 1977
Status : Closed
Name meaning : corruption of an Aboriginal word 'tiennah' for bandicoot.
Notes : 875' crossing loop. The location had a waiting shed and WC on the main line with a timber loading ramp on a short dead end siding that had originally been a loop siding that led to the Huon Timber Co Mill, this was an 819' siding. The siding had been truncated by the 1930s.

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Layout of the yards (1930/5) (National Archives)

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Location of Tyenna (LISTmap)

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Tyenna, 8/11/1968 (Holden Tour of Tasmania) (National Archives)

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Construction at Tyenna (Derwent Valley Line), 1914 (Libraries Tas)