Danby

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Type : Loop/Siding
Line : South Line
Distance from Hobart : 053.900km
Opened : 1941
Closed : 1984
Status : Closed
Name meaning : Unknown
Notes : Only used when required by small farms in the district, the main farm named "Stockdale" was in the Coal River Valley. Location was the near to the site of a fatal derailment 26/10/1951 (both driver and fireman killed) - the train was travelling at around 40mph (double the 20mph speed limit) and overturned after derailing.

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Location (Mapcarta)

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An aerial view looking down on Danby Siding where the ballast train has paused to pick up it's crew to start ballasting operations between Danby and Colebrook.

Wednesday 7th September, 2016.

(TRains in Tasmania)

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With the countryside nice and green and the spring time lighting quite pretty, the sleepy wayside site of Danby Siding awakes with the passage of No 34 log train late in the evening behind TR units 16 + 14 and the vociferous DQ class 2008 on Thursday 11th September, 2018. Photo by Steve Bromley.

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Danby Siding (crossing loop) site plan, 1955 (State Library of Tas)