Mole Creek

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Type : Station
Distance from Deloraine : 25.347km
Opened : 5/4/1890
Closed : 1984   
Status : Closed
Name meaning : After the location
Notes : As built; weatherboard station building (later replaced with a smaller structure which still stands), two loop lines one of which serviced a goods shed later replaced with an overhead gantry and a dead end siding servicing the stockyards. A loco siding (dead end) with a 13.7m turntable and ash pit and engine shed branched off the outer loop siding. This shed was still in use (privately) in the 1960s and the last recorded use of the turntable was in 1964. Water pipe on the eastern end of the platform. In 1972 the yards were remodelled for the APPM log terminal - loco and stockyard siding removed, 157 metre log platform installed on outer loop. Further changes were made for limestone traffic including a loading bank which still remains.

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Limestone loading bank at Mole Creek (remnant remains at end of line)

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Mole Creek station, 2023

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Location of Mole Creek station (LISTmap)

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Mole Creek layouts in 1930 and 1977

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CCS 25 on the Mole Creek turntable, 6/3/1964 (one of the last uses of the turntable) (Buckland Collection)

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CCS 25 shunts at Mole Creek 5/1/1962 (Stokes)

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Mole Creek gantry crane at the end of the line in 1977 (Stokes)

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Log loading at Mole Creek, 3/11/1977 (Stokes)

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Mole Creek 2/7/1914 (Weekly Courier)

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Tour loco being turned at Mole Creek 7/3/1964 (G W Lillico)

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Tour train at Mole Creek, 7/4/1965 (Grunbach)

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Mole Creek construction diagram (Tas Libraries)

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Mole Creek (undated)

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Mole Creek, 2020, Pete Heininger