Parattah

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Type : Station/Junction
Line : South Line
Distance from Hobart : 086.900km
Opened : 1876 as Oatlands, renamed Parattah Junction 1885
Closed : n/a
Status : Closed (station), loop in use
Name meaning : Aboriginal word meaning "ice and cold".
Notes : Junction for the (closed) Oatlands Branch. Crossing loop, loco servicing facilities, refreshment room, watering facilities, coaling stage, turntable, goods shed, stockyard and a triangle (wye) existed at the site. Loading gantry still extant though disused. Station last used early 2000s for tourist trains. Was the highest station (altitude) in Tasmania. A Tas Rail depot is near the site. Station demolished and rebuilt in 1965.

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Location of the station (LISTmap)

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View over the site (undated, uncredited)

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Parattah, August 2023 (Google)

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Parattah c1933, Hobart to Launceston express (John Grimwade/ARHS)

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Parattah (Lynette Graham)

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Robert Clark:

Parattah Station, my father Bob Clark on the left, station master at the time

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Tour train at Parattah, 17/4/1965 (Grunbach)

H3 hauling BBL+AAR+BBL+SP cars on the first day of the Easter 1965 ARHS tour: Hobart to Devonport, then M4 to Burnie (shedded overnight at Wynyard).

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Parattah, 1911

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Parattah station, prior to 1965 (Geoffrey Edward Love)

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Parattah, 1968 (Lands & Surveys Department)

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Plan 7812367 (709) TGR - Main Line - plan of Parattah Railway Station and yard [Ink drawing] (1930) (Tas Libraries)

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Plan 7812368 (710) TGR - Main Line - Parattah Station Yard - including proposed alterations [Ink drawing with pencil notations] (1931) (Tas Libraries)

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Plan 7812369 (711) Tasmanian Main Line Railway - Parattah Station ['Oatlands' appears in title, crossed out] [Ink, pencil and watercolour drawing with pencil notations]

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R2 at Parattah with a Hobart to Launceston passenger service, R B McMillan photo, 15/1/1949