Bridgewater Junction

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Aerial view of the site of Bridgewater station, 7 January 2020. (Ed Tonks)

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Tasmanian Mainline Co. approaching Bridgewater Station

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Robert Pailthorpe :

I have some photos of Bridgewater Station in the late 1980s. They feature a train from the paper plant hauling containers and proceeding across the Derwent into Hobart. There is also a photo of inside the signal cabin with the Station Master Alf Daft. This was in the time ANR were in control of the railway system in Tasmania.

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Frank All :
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My first post to this group.  I'm Roderick Smith, longstandanding railway enthusiast from Victoria.  My brother and cousin are members.  Alas, I have to use Frank All's account after my main one was sabotaged.  I have longstanding links to Tasmania.  My great uncle Ted was the manager of a music/piano shop in Hobart in the 1920s & 30s, and lived in upmarket Sandy Bay.  My father as a teenager had a holiday there: crossing to Launceston on TSS Loongana.  He had a ticket for the boat train to Hobart, but was collected by wealth uncle in a car.  He was on Mt Wellington and saw the regatta collision of two ferries from afar.  Growing up in South Melbourne, I saw Taroona and the wreck of Nairana.  My first flight was Melbourne - Hobart in a TAA Viscount, to chase a major ARHS tour which I couldn't afford.  I'm starting with a colour photo, before continuing with b&w.