The Derwent Valley Railway reached Kallista on 2 July 1936, and shortly afterwards the 8 km extension to Florentine was opened.
[2] When road transport replaced rail, the line became uneconomical to run and repair and when Australian Newsprint Mills closed their Maydena depot in 1990, the log loading yard at Florentine was sold.
[3] The last documented rail journey to Florentine was in April 1993, when two Y locomotives, Y1 and Y5, hauled a special test train to be loaded with silica sand.
[4] Florentine Junction is currently used by Railtrack Riders, a tourist initiative of the Maydena Community Association Inc. and which hopes to give visitors an insight into Tasmania's forestry and its railway heritage.
[5] Working with local bushman Albert Harris, renowned ‘tiger hunter’ Elias Churchill trapped a living thylacine close to Florentine Junction in 1933.