 A rail line was built from Mole Creek to Deloraine , through Chudleigh . It ran 20 @.@ 4 kilometres ( 12 @.@ 7 mi ) from a junction on the western line and opened on 5 April 1890 . The rail line was used for mail , freight and passengers ; occasional passenger services went as far as Devonport . Passenger services mostly ceased when they were replaced with a bus service in 1960 . The line continued to be used for transporting logs for some time after this . Throughout its existence , the line was primarily used to carry timber to the paper mill at Burnie and , in later days , woodchips to Bell Bay . Passenger services had been mostly self @-@ propelled railcars after the 1920s . The line was closed in 1985 , and the tracks lifted in 1992 . 
