4-432: The Bell Bay Line is a freight rail corridor connecting the port of Bell Bay to the main rail network of Tasmania . The Railway Line was built in 1973 to connect the Longreach sawmill to the rail network, and was extended to Bell Bay in 1974. Traffic on the line was initially limited to woodchip logs to Longreach, with the occasional train to George Town and Bell Bay. By the 1990s, log traffic to Longreach by rail
8-500: The year ended June 2021, 3.6 million tonnes of exports and imports passed through Bell Bay. Bell Bay Post Office opened on 18 September 1951 and closed in 1973. Bell Bay has an aluminium smelter operated by Rio Tinto (previously by Comalco ), and the Tasmanian Electro Metallurgical Company manganese alloy smelter operated by South32 (previously by BHP ). The Bell Bay Power Station
12-676: Was decommissioned in 2009, replaced by the Tamar Valley Power Station built next door. Bell Bay was connected to the Tasmanian Government Railways network in May 1974, when the 35 kilometre Bell Bay railway line opened, branching off the North East line at Nelson Creek to the north of Launceston . Primarily built to carry logs for export, today it carries intermodal containers to and from
16-567: Was decreasing, and container traffic to the port of Bell Bay was increasing. Today the only traffic on the line is containers to and from Bell Bay. At present, the railway line is included in the Federal Government's AusLink initiative Bell Bay, Tasmania Bell Bay is an industrial centre and port located on the eastern shore of the Tamar River , in northern Tasmania , Australia. It lies just south of George Town . In
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