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bevans
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Posted: Wed Jan 22, 2003 6:33 pm
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Hi, what other tourist railways operate in Tasmania?
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tasrail
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Posted: Thu Jan 23, 2003 7:44 am
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Depends on your definition 
See http://www.railtasmania.com/pres/ for more details on railway preservation in Tasmania
Those marked # operate 3'6" gauge train, those marked * operate 2' or 15" gauge trains
North:
# Don River Railway
Launceston Tramway Museum
Queen Victoria Museum
* Redwater Creek Steam Railway
# Burnie City Council
South:
* Bush Mill Railway
# Derwent Valley Railway
* Ida Bay Railway
# Tasmanian Transport Museum
West:
ABT Railway Society
# West Coast Wilderness Railway
* Wee Georgie Wood steam railway
West Coast Pioneers Memorial Museum
Statewide:
Australian Railway Historical Society
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Stuart
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bevans
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Posted: Thu Jan 23, 2003 5:03 pm
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Stuart,
Thanks heaps!
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Brian
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greg
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Posted: Mon Jan 27, 2003 7:55 pm
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Stuart, what of regular freight services? Are these daily and what would be the main routes?
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tasrail
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Posted: Tue Jan 28, 2003 7:47 am
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| greg wrote: | | Stuart, what of regular freight services? Are these daily and what would be the main routes? |
There are varing numbers of trains each day. Main routes are Hobart/Boyer - Launceston - Burnie.
there is an article about day to day train operation sta my site
http://www.railtasmania.com (on the general information page)
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greg
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Posted: Tue Jan 28, 2003 1:44 pm
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| tasrail wrote: | There are varing numbers of trains each day. Main routes are Hobart/Boyer - Launceston - Burnie.
there is an article about day to day train operation sta my site
http://www.railtasmania.com (on the general information page) |
Thanks. Is it true the old Hobart rail passenger terminal is now the home of the ABC? If so, when did this occur?
Have there been cases where other passenger terminals in the island state have been turned into something other than the passenger terminal?
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tasrail
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Posted: Tue Jan 28, 2003 2:09 pm
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Thanks. Is it true the old Hobart rail passenger terminal is now the home of the ABC? If so, when did this occur?
Have there been cases where other passenger terminals in the island state have been turned into something other than the passenger terminal?[/quote]
That's correct. The sandstone TMLR station building remains as part of the ABC complex. The track was cut back to the other side of a new road, and the station area redeveloped.
Launceston workshops is now part of the University, and the museum/art gallery. The passenger bit was subsumed into the goods yards in the 1980s.
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greg
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Posted: Tue Jan 28, 2003 2:42 pm
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| tasrail wrote: | That's correct. The sandstone TMLR station building remains as part of the ABC complex. The track was cut back to the other side of a new road, and the station area redeveloped.
Launceston workshops is now part of the University, and the museum/art gallery. The passenger bit was subsumed into the goods yards in the 1980s. |
When did pasenger traffic finally disappear in Tasmania?
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tasrail
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Posted: Wed Jan 29, 2003 7:22 am
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1978. The Tasman Limited was the last train, and out lasted the "Parattah Railmotor" by a week.
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Posted: Wed Jan 29, 2003 1:05 pm
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| tasrail wrote: | | 1978. The Tasman Limited was the last train, and out lasted the "Parattah Railmotor" by a week. |
Where did this service run and to and from?
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tasrail
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Posted: Wed Jan 29, 2003 3:17 pm
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The Tasman Limited ran between Burnie and Hobart, with a connection to Launceston. I'm not sure how many days a week it ran, as it was before my time.
The Parattah Railmotor ran between Hobart and the town (?) of Parattah in the midlands.
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Posted: Sat Nov 06, 2004 6:23 pm
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| tasrail wrote: | Depends on your definition
See http://www.railtasmania.com/pres/ for more details on railway preservation in Tasmania
Those marked # operate 3'6" gauge train, those marked * operate 2' or 15" gauge trains
North:
# Don River Railway
Launceston Tramway Museum
Queen Victoria Museum
* Redwater Creek Steam Railway
# Burnie City Council
South:
* Bush Mill Railway
# Derwent Valley Railway
* Ida Bay Railway
# Tasmanian Transport Museum
West:
ABT Railway Society
# West Coast Wilderness Railway
* Wee Georgie Wood steam railway
West Coast Pioneers Memorial Museum
Statewide:
Australian Railway Historical Society
Regards,
Stuart
Tasmanain Railways Mailing List
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/tasrail/ |
I found a railway organisation that operates railcars similar to Burnie Rail ones and it's somewhere in Tasmania. I completely forgot its name. Could someone help?
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Posted: Sun Nov 07, 2004 8:34 pm
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| tasrail wrote: | | The Tasman Limited ran between Burnie and Hobart, with a connection to Launceston. I'm not sure how many days a week it ran, as it was before my time. |
The Tasman Limited ran from Wynyard to Hobart, with the Launceston connection to Western Junction 6 days a week.
Towards the end of its life, it ran 3 days a week, coinciding with the crossing with the Empress of Australia (pretty pointless really, as the Empress was a car ferry, and the connection to Devonport Station was a fair distance by road, or a short ferry crossing across the Mersey, followed by a long wait).
I remember the Tasman's second last run to Wynyard- was delayed at East Penguin near my home when a car went over the bank onto the rails.
The last run was memorable at Wynyard due to a sit in by the Friends of the Earth, protesting against the axing of the service on grounds of environment. The X class engine, already 28 years old at that point, was hardly efficient! (but certainly a wonderful workhorse!)
1067 may not be the only guage, but it sure the hell is fun!
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tasrail
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Posted: Mon Nov 08, 2004 8:00 am
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| JZ wrote: | | I found a railway organisation that operates railcars similar to Burnie Rail ones and it's somewhere in Tasmania. I completely forgot its name. Could someone help? |
Railcars would be either Don River Railway or Tasmanian Transport Museum, unless you have fuond an old reference to Classic Rail Tours who did up the railcars and ran them for some years before selling them to the Burnie council.
Stuart
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