Type : Station
Line : Main Line
Distance from Hobart : 000.000km
Opened : 1 March 1876 (as Hobart Town), renamed Hobart 1880
Closed : 28 July 1978 (final passenger train 18/07/1978)
Status : Partially re-used (ABC uses the original station building)
Name meaning : After the city it's located in, in turn after Lord Hobart, the British Secretary of State for war and the colonies.
Notes : Built by the Tasmanian Main Line Company. The station was further expanded in the 20th century, with the station reconstructed and modernised in 1950. After the completion of construction works, the station had four platforms and a large concourse, as well as shopping stalls and food vendors. Station expanded from 3 to 6 platforms in 1953. Site had freight facilities, workshops, loco servicing and a turntable
Hobart (late 60s, early 1970s) (uncredited)
Diesel and steam at Hobart, 1960s (Hal Wyatt)
Hobart from the railway gates, c1881 (University of Tasmania)
Hobart Railway Station, Suburban Diesel train 1957
(PT 6 and unknown DP rail-car)
Libraries Tasmania
Proposed station and hotel at Hobart (Libraries Tasmania)
C class locomotive at Hobart Station (1970) (Hal Wyatt)
Artist unknown.
Unsigned ; dated in unknown hand on verso 'c. 1890 ? 1885'.
Title inscribed in ink in unknown hand on verso. (Libraries Tas)
Hobart, 1870s
Hobart, 1955 (Dept of Education, Tasmania)
Hobart, 1880s (Libraries Tasmania)
Tasman Limited, 1957 at Hobart (Libraries Tasmania)
1957, goods train arriving at Hobart (Libraries Tas)
Hobart station, back elevation (TGR)
Tasmanian Railways, new R1 fitted with test equipment at Hobart station, 1923, Mercury Historical Collection
Hobart roundhouse and turntable in 1976
Hobart's "Railway Roundabout" under construction in the 1950s, the station can be seen to the left. (Libraries Tas)
Can't quite see the second under ground tunnel (now concreted up) that went under to the platforms from brooker ave (Nigel Charlesworth)
Hobart yards in the 1960s (uncredited)
View over the railway yards at Hobart, possibly 1920s or 30s
Original Hobart station in December 1951 prior to demolition and rebuid (K Flood)
Hobart in the 1960s (Geoffrey Edward Love)
Hobart in the 1960s (Geoffrey Edward Love)
Hobart 1950s (uncredited)
DP Railcar set. Hobart around 1960. Phot. unknown.
Hobart (undated, uncredited)
R Class 4-6-2 departing old Hobart Railway Station. Early years date unknown. Phot unknown.
Hobart Station. Archives AA375-1-216
Terminus of the Main Line Railway, Hobart Town.
Engraving of the Hobart railway in 1876 [from the original edition of The Australasian Sketcher].