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Rail transport in Tasmania

Index Rail transport in Tasmania

Rail transport in Tasmania consists of a network of narrow gauge track of reaching virtually all cities and major towns in the island state of Tasmania, Australia. [1]

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AN Tasrail

AN Tasrail was an Australian railway operator that operated the Tasmanian rail network from March 1978 until November 2009.

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AusLink

AusLink is a former Australian Government land transport funding program, that operated between June 2004 and 2009.

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Australian Heritage Council

Australian Heritage Council was established on 19 February 2004 as the Australian body responsible for advising the Australian Government on cultural heritage matters.

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Australian National Railways Commission

The Australian National Railways Commission was an agency of the Government of Australia that was a railway operator between 1975 and 1998.

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Australian Railway Historical Society

The Australian Railway Historical Society (ARHS) aims to foster an interest in the railways, and record and preserve many facets of railway operations.

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Australian Transport Network

Australian Transport Network (ATN) was a freight railway operator in Australia that commenced operating in November 1997.

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Bell Bay Line

The Bell Bay Line is a freight rail corridor connecting the port of Bell Bay to the main rail network of Tasmania.

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Bell Bay, Tasmania

Bell Bay is an industrial centre and port located on the eastern shore of the Tamar River, in northern Tasmania, Australia.

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Bellerive, Tasmania

Bellerive is a suburb of the City of Clarence, part of the greater Hobart area, Tasmania, Australia.

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Branxholm, Tasmania

Branxholm is a small town in northeastern Tasmania.

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Break of gauge

With railways, a break of gauge occurs where a line of one gauge meets a line of a different gauge.

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Bridgewater, Tasmania

Bridgewater, Tasmania, is a suburb in Tasmania's south-east.

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Bryan Green

Bryan Alexander Green (born 30 June 1957) is a former Australian politician.

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Burnie, Tasmania

Burnie is a port city on the north-west coast of Tasmania.

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Canadian National Railway

The Canadian National Railway Company (Compagnie des chemins de fer nationaux du Canada) is a Canadian Class I freight railway headquartered in Montreal, Quebec that serves Canada and the Midwestern and Southern United States.

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Conara, Tasmania

Conara is a small township in the Northern Midlands of Tasmania, located approximately 51 kilometres (33 mi) south of Launceston.

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Deloraine, Tasmania

Deloraine is a town on the Meander River, in the central north of Tasmania, Australia.

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Department of Infrastructure, Regional Development and Cities

The Department of Infrastructure, Regional Development and Cities is an Australian Public Service department of the Government of Australia charged with the responsibility for infrastructure and major projects, transport, local government, external territories administration, rural and regional development, population policy, and cities.

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Derwent Valley Railway (Tasmania)

The Derwent Valley Railway is a heritage railway in Tasmania, Australia.

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Devonport, Tasmania

Devonport is a city in northern Tasmania, Australia.

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Don River Railway

The Don River Railway is a volunteer run vintage railway and museum in Don, a suburb of Devonport, Tasmania.

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Don, Tasmania

Don (sometimes known as the Don) is a small village, located just outside Devonport Tasmania, situated on the Don River.

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Evandale, Tasmania

Evandale is a small town in northern Tasmania, Australia.

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Glenorchy, Tasmania

Glenorchy City (named after Glen Orchy in Scotland) is bound by the Derwent River on the Eastern side, Mount Wellington on the Western side, Hobart City to the South and Brighton to the North.

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Government of Australia

The Government of the Commonwealth of Australia (also referred to as the Australian Government, the Commonwealth Government, or the Federal Government) is the government of the Commonwealth of Australia, a federal parliamentary constitutional monarchy.

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Government of Tasmania

The Government of Tasmania, also referred to as the Tasmanian Government, is the executive authority of the state of Tasmania, Australia.

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Hobart

Hobart is the capital and most populous city of the Australian island state of Tasmania.

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Ida Bay Railway

The Ida Bay Railway is a, narrow gauge Heritage Tramway that operates south of Hobart, Tasmania, Australia.

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Invermay, Tasmania

Invermay is a suburb of Launceston, which contains the minor suburb of Inveresk, it is located on the eastern side of the Tamar River and the northern side of the North Esk River, the suburb is most notable as being home to York Park (University of Tasmania Stadium).

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Launceston, Tasmania

Launceston is a city in the north of Tasmania, Australia at the junction of the North Esk and South Esk rivers where they become the Tamar River (Kanamaluka).

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Melba Line

The Melba Line is a narrow-gauge railway on the West Coast of Tasmania.

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Mole Creek

Mole Creek is a town in the upper Mersey Valley, in the central north of Tasmania, Australia.

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Motive Power

Motive Power is a bi-monthly railway related magazine that focuses on diesel locomotives in Australia.

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Narrow-gauge railway

A narrow-gauge railway (narrow-gauge railroad in the US) is a railway with a track gauge narrower than the standard.

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New Norfolk, Tasmania

New Norfolk is a town on the Derwent River, in the south-east of Tasmania, Australia.

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New Zealand

New Zealand (Aotearoa) is a sovereign island country in the southwestern Pacific Ocean.

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Nine.com.au

Nine.com.au (formerly Ninemsn) is an Australian website owned by Mi9, a subsidiary of Nine Entertainment Co., in partnership with Microsoft.

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North Mount Lyell Railway

The North Mount Lyell Railway was built to operate between the North Mount Lyell mine in West Coast Tasmania and Pillinger in the Kelly Basin of Macquarie Harbour.

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Oatlands Railway

The Oatlands Railway was a short branch of the Main Line from Launceston to Hobart in Tasmania, which was built to give rail access to the town of Oatlands.

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Oatlands, Tasmania

Oatlands is an important historical village on the shores of Lake Dulverton in the centre of Tasmania, Australia.

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Pacific National

Pacific National is one of Australia's largest rail freight businesses.

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Parattah

Parattah is a small township in Tasmania, located approximately 6 kilometres (4 mi) southeast of the town of Oatlands.

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Patrick Corporation

Patrick Corporation Ltd was an Australian publicly listed logistics conglomerate.

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Rail transport in Australia

Rail transport in Australia is a crucial aspect of the Australian transport network.

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Railton, Tasmania

Railton is a town situated 20 km inland from Devonport on the north-west coast of Tasmania, Australia's island state.

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Railway Digest

Railway Digest is a Sydney based monthly magazine covering the railways of Australia.

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Regatta Point, Tasmania

Regatta Point is the location of a port and rail terminus on Macquarie Harbour (West Coast, Tasmania).

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Scottsdale, Tasmania

Scottsdale is a town in the north-east of Tasmania, Australia.

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Sheffield, Tasmania

Sheffield is a town 23 kilometres inland from Devonport on the north-west coast of Tasmania.

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Smithton, Tasmania

Smithton is a town on the far north-west coast of Tasmania, Australia.

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Sorell, Tasmania

Sorell is a town in Tasmania, Australia, north-east of Hobart.

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South Line, Tasmania

The South Line, also known as the Main Line and sometimes the North/South Line or the North–South Line, is a freight rail corridor connecting Hobart to the northern ports of Tasmania.

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St Marys, Tasmania

St Marys is a small township nestled at the junction of the Tasman Highway and the Esk Highway on the East Coast of Tasmania, Australia approximately 10 kilometres (six miles) from the coast.

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Stanley, Tasmania

Stanley is a town on the north-west coast of Tasmania, Australia.

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Strahan–Zeehan Railway

The Strahan–Zeehan Railway, also known as the 'Government Railway', was a railway from Strahan to Zeehan on the west coast of Tasmania.

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Subsidy

A subsidy is a form of financial aid or support extended to an economic sector (or institution, business, or individual) generally with the aim of promoting economic and social policy.

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Tasmania

Tasmania (abbreviated as Tas and known colloquially as Tassie) is an island state of Australia.

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Tasmanian Government Railways

The Tasmanian Government Railways (TGR) was the former operator of the mainline railways in Tasmania, Australia.

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Tasmanian Government Railways Y class

The Y class was a class of diesel locomotives built by the Tasmanian Government Railways between 1961 and 1971.

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Tasmanian Main Line Company

The Tasmanian Main Line Company (T.M.L.) was a privately owned railway company that existed in Tasmania from 1872 to 1890.

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Tasmanian Transport Museum

The Tasmanian Transport Museum is a museum located in Glenorchy, Tasmania, preserving and exhibiting a collection relating to Tasmanian transport history including items such as locomotives, carriages, ephemera and railroadiana.

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TasRail

TasRail is the trading name of Tasmanian Railway Proprietary Limited, a Tasmanian Government state-owned enterprise that has operated the mainline railways in Tasmania since September 2009.

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TasRail DQ class

The DQ class were a class of diesel locomotives in New Zealand and Tasmania.

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TasRail TR class

The TR class are a class of diesel locomotives built by Progress Rail Services, Patterson, Georgia for the TasRail in 2013-2014.

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Toll Group

Toll Group, part of Japan Post, is a transportation and logistics company with operations in road, rail, sea, air and warehousing.

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Tranz Rail

Tranz Rail, formally Tranz Rail Holdings Limited (New Zealand Rail Limited until 1995), was the main rail operator in New Zealand from 1991 until it was purchased by Toll Holdings in 2003.

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Tullah, Tasmania

Tullah is a town in the northern part of the West Coast Range, on the west coast of Tasmania, about 111 km south of Burnie.

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United States

The United States of America (USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a federal republic composed of 50 states, a federal district, five major self-governing territories, and various possessions.

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Warren Truss

Warren Errol Truss (born 8 October 1948) is a former Australian politician who served as the 16th Deputy Prime Minister of Australia and Minister for Infrastructure and Regional Development in the Abbott Government and the Turnbull Government.

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Wee Georgie Wood Railway

The Wee Georgie Wood Railway is a narrow gauge tourist tramway running from Tullah, on a http://www.weegeorgiewood.com.au/history.html (most other sources say 1.6km) short track by the edge of Lake Rosebery in the West Coast Municipality of Tasmania.

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West Coast Wilderness Railway

The West Coast Wilderness Railway is a reconstruction of the Mount Lyell Mining and Railway Company railway in Tasmania between Queenstown and Regatta Point, Strahan.

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West Coast, Tasmania

The West Coast of Tasmania is the part of the state that is strongly associated with wilderness, mining and tourism, rough country and isolation.

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Western Line, Tasmania

The Western Line, previously known as the Launceston and Western Line, is a 78 km freight rail corridor that runs from Western Junction to Wiltshire in Tasmania, Australia.

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Wisconsin Central Ltd.

Wisconsin Central Ltd. is a railroad subsidiary of the Canadian National Railway.

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Wynyard, Tasmania

Wynyard is a rural town on the north-west coast of Tasmania, Australia, about west of Burnie.

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Zeehan, Tasmania

Zeehan is a town on the west coast of Tasmania, Australia south-west of Burnie.

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5 ft 3 in gauge railways

Railways with track gauge of are broad gauge railways, currently in use in Australia, Brazil, Ireland and Northern Ireland.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rail_transport_in_Tasmania

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