 Hadspen was an important stop on the coach route from Launceston to Deloraine from at least the 1840s . The coach service declined from when rail transport started in Tasmania in the late 1860s . The State Government began operating a school bus from town , to Hagley , in the 1930s . Meander Valley Highway , formerly known as Bass Highway , passes through the edge of the town bypassing the old main street . Bass Highway , which connects Launceston , Burnie and Devonport , branches off from this east of the town at Travellers Rest and passes south of Hadspen . 
