Westbury

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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.

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Westbury layout (1930/5)

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Location (LISTmap)

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

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Westbury, 22/4/2025 (Lance Lyon)

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Westbury, 2/12/1968 (NAA)

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TAS RAIL CCS-CLASS NO.23 AND MA-CLASS NO.4 ON SPECIAL CENTENARY TRAIN NO.319 LAUNCESTON TO DELORAINE AND M-CLASS M 1 AT WESTBURY (10/02/1971) (J Ward)

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Westbury Feb 1971 (Grunbach)