Rinadeena is railway station and stopping place on the West Coast Wilderness Railway in Tasmania.
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When the original Mount Lyell railway line was being built, it was the location of some significant landslips.[1] In the time of operations of the Mount Lyell railway landslips continued.[2][3][4]
In the event of wildfires in the adjacent district, with little to prevent fires affecting the railway line and Rinadeena structures, losses were inevitable in the past.[5]
Since rebuilding of the West Coast Wilderness Railway it is also the location of a serious accident.[6]
It is the highest point on the railway line, with Abt mechanisms on the steam locomotives required from either side of operations.[7][8]
The Abt fittings on the track proceed upward from Hall's Creek on the Queenstown side, and from Rinadeens downward to Dubbil Barril on the Regatta Point side.[9]
Station sequence
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edit- ^ "WESTERN NEWS". Launceston Examiner. Vol. LIX, no. 215. Tasmania, Australia. 8 September 1899. p. 6. Retrieved 2 June 2016 – via National Library of Australia.
- ^ "QUEENSTOWN". Daily Telegraph. Tasmania, Australia. 13 August 1907. p. 5. Retrieved 25 December 2019 – via Trove.
- ^ "DAMAGE ON THE WEST COAST". Daily Telegraph. Tasmania, Australia. 17 February 1917. p. 4. Retrieved 25 December 2019 – via Trove.
- ^ "FALL OF EARTH ON LINE". The Examiner (Tasmania). Tasmania, Australia. 23 June 1938. p. 8 (LATE NEWS EDITION and DAILY). Retrieved 25 December 2019 – via Trove.
- ^ "To-day's News In Brief". The Advocate. Tasmania. 12 February 1934. p. 2. Retrieved 2 June 2016 – via National Library of Australia.
- ^ Australian Transport Safety Bureau (issuing body) (2014), Collision between two road rail vehicles : Rinadeena, Tasmania, 4 June 2013, Canberra Australian Transport Safety Bureau, retrieved 2 June 2016
- ^ "ISOLATED TOWN". Recorder. No. 9, 107. South Australia. 19 July 1928. p. 4. Retrieved 3 June 2016 – via National Library of Australia.
- ^ "DEVELOPMENT OF THE WEST COAST". The Mercury. Vol. CXLVII, no. 20, 882. Tasmania. 28 October 1937. p. 12. Retrieved 3 June 2016 – via National Library of Australia. – note photograph of rinadeena railway track in right hand side of view, photo by W J Rowlands
- ^ West Coast Wilderness Railway (Tas.) (2008), Abt system, West Coast Wilderness Railway, retrieved 12 June 2016