Westerway Railway Station is a railway station in the settlement of
Westerway on the
Darwent Valley Railway in
Tasmania
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Australia
Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a Sovereign state, sovereign country comprising the mainland of the Australia (continent), Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous List of islands of Australia, sma ...
. The station was built in 1909 after the track was extended from Glenore.
The station was the starting point for the pack horse journey to the
Adamsfield osmiridium
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Osmiridium has been defined as containing a higher proportion of iridium, with iridosmine containing more osmium. However ...
mine. As the
timber industry
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became more important to the area, sawmills were built and the railway was used to transport logs to
Boyer
Boyer () is a French surname. In rarer cases, it can be a corruption or deliberate alteration of other names.
Origins and statistics
Boyer is found traditionally along the Mediterranean (Provence, Languedoc), the Rhône valley, Auvergne, Limou ...
and
Hobart
Hobart ( ; Nuennonne/Palawa kani: ''nipaluna'') is the capital and most populous city of the Australian island state of Tasmania. Home to almost half of all Tasmanians, it is the least-populated Australian state capital city, and second-small ...
. By the 1990s, alternative transportation made the continued use of the railway unprofitable and by 1995, no trains ran beyond
New Norfolk
New Norfolk is a town on the Derwent River (Tasmania), River Derwent, in the south-east of Tasmania, Australia. At the Census in Australia#2011, 2011 census, New Norfolk had a population of 5,543.
Situated north-west of Hobart on the Lyell Hi ...
. However, the Derwent Valley Railway was, until recently, used by tourists to visit the area.
The Westerway station building has been restored by volunteers at the Derwent Valley Railway.
[http://www.dvr.org.au/aboutus.html ]
References
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Southern Tasmania
Railway stations in Tasmania