Rinadeena is railway station and stopping place on the West Coast Wilderness Railway in Tasmania.

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

Notes

  1. ↑ "WESTERN NEWS". Launceston Examiner. Vol. LIX, no. 215. Tasmania, Australia. 8 September 1899. p. 6. Retrieved 2 June 2016 – via National Library of Australia.
  2. ↑ "QUEENSTOWN". Daily Telegraph. Tasmania, Australia. 13 August 1907. p. 5. Retrieved 25 December 2019 – via Trove.
  3. ↑ "DAMAGE ON THE WEST COAST". Daily Telegraph. Tasmania, Australia. 17 February 1917. p. 4. Retrieved 25 December 2019 – via Trove.
  4. ↑ "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.
  5. ↑ "To-day's News In Brief". The Advocate. Tasmania. 12 February 1934. p. 2. Retrieved 2 June 2016 – via National Library of Australia.
  6. ↑ 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
  7. ↑ "ISOLATED TOWN". Recorder. No. 9, 107. South Australia. 19 July 1928. p. 4. Retrieved 3 June 2016 – via National Library of Australia.
  8. ↑ "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
  9. ↑ West Coast Wilderness Railway (Tas.) (2008), Abt system, West Coast Wilderness Railway, retrieved 12 June 2016

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