Lynchford,_Tasmania

Lynchford, Tasmania

Lynchford, Tasmania

Locality and stopping place on Mount Lyell railway, Tasmania, Australia

Lynchford is a locality and was a stopping place on the Mount Lyell railway to Strahan, to the south of Queenstown in the Queen River valley.[1]

It was in its early days a gold mine location.[2][3][4][5]

It is now a stopping place on the West Coast Wilderness Railway.

Station sequence

Notes

  1. [1]
    https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/234996026?keyword=lynchford%20tasmania -townsite map of Lynchford 1900
  2. [2]
    "LYNCHFORD". The Daily Telegraph. Vol. XXX, no. 286. Tasmania. 1 December 1910. p. 2. Retrieved 5 June 2016 – via National Library of Australia.
  3. [3]
    "LYNCHFORD MINING NOTES". The Mercury. Vol. LXIII, no. 7555. Tasmania. 16 May 1894. p. 3. Retrieved 5 June 2016 – via National Library of Australia.
  4. [4]
    Godden Mackay (1994), King River Mine - Lynchford : preliminary heritage assessment, retrieved 3 September 2021
  5. [5]
    Back-Tracks Heritage Consultants; Jackman, Greg (1995), King River Mine Site, Lynchford : draft conservation plan : report to Paraclete Resources Pty Ltd, s.n, retrieved 3 September 2021

42.1169°S 145.5277°E / -42.1169; 145.5277
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