Bellerive

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Type : Station
Line : Sorell Line
Distance from Bellerive : 000.000km
Location :
Opened : 2nd May 1892
Closed : 30 June 1926
Status : Closed
Name meaning : French for "beautiful shore"
Notes : Loco servicing facilities, ashpit, coal stage, weighbridge, goods shedcrossing loop (three lines on wharf). 100 metre causeway led on to a 90 metre wharf. Station was on the wharf. Some remnants still exist.

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Bellerive Station 1892 to 1926
I have several old postcards of Bellerive, this being the best image of the railway station. The other two photos I purloined from John Houghton's excellent book, The Sorell Line - Return Trip.
The book was published by the Bellerive Historical Society in 2019. I believe it's still in print. An excellent read, recommended.
The postcard was published in (I estimate) the 1910s, McV. & L. Series No. 79. (Peter Bond)

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Station Pier at Kangaroo Bay (Bellerive)

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Location of Bellerive station (LISTmap)

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Bellerive station yards witha lone carriage. (undated, uncredited)

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Bellerive railway station (Jack Thwaites and Family) (not dated)

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TGR locomotives (exTMLR) A+1 and D+ in engine shed, Bellerive, after closure of the Bellierive Sorell railway [picture]., ( [unnumbered]), (from Buckland collection of railway transport photographs [selected items])

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Lantern slide of Kangaroo Bay and the railway pier. (Maritime Museum of Tasmania)

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Bellerive from Rosny, head of Kangaroo Bay, 1921


Photograph shows the old Sorell railway which ran from Bellerive, opened in 1892, closed 1926.

(Maritime Museum of Tasmania)

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Ex-TMLR D+2 at Bellerive, in the 1920's. TGR photo, Ted Lidster collection

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Ex Tasmanian Main Line Railway goods wagons, in use on the isolated Bellerive to Sorell railway, in the yard at Bellerive. 31/10/1912 (uncredited)

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The train station at Bellerive in 1910. (Bellerive Historical Society)

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Bellerive station pier, Jonathan Davis collection.

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Bellerive yards, Max Walker collection