Needles

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Type : Station
Distance from Deloraine : 10.461km
Opened : 5/4/1890
Closed : 1984   
Status : Closed
Name meaning : Unknown
Notes : Extant timetables show this as a request stop. Platform and shelter on the northern side, goods loop and dead end siding on the southern side. Corrugated iron goods shed (removed by 1930), goods siding and loop were in a derelict state by the 1960s and were removed in that decade.

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Location of the one-time platform at Needles located near the intersection of Mole Creek Rd and Dairy Plains Rd.

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CCS 21 at Needles in 1961, the derelict goods siding can be seen. (C G Manning)

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Needles (construction diagram) (Tas Libraries)

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Aerial image of Needles station yard on 22-3-1976. (Jenny Smith)

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Cottage at Needles, 1899 (Northern Tasmania Camera Club)

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Needles - Holden Tour of Tasmania (16/10/1968) (Tas Libraries)