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Daylesford Railway Station, Victoria
Daylesford is a railway station that services the town of Daylesford, Victoria, Australia. Daylesford Station is a substantial brick building used by the Daylesford Spa Country Railway, the station yard consists of a number of tracks which are used to store heritage rollingstock. A goods shed is also located at the station. Opened on Wednesday, 17 March 1880, it was closed on Monday, 3 July 1978. During the mid to late 1980s the line reopened for tourist services, gangers trolleys conveyed passengers on short trips to the Wombat State Forest The Wombat State Forest (locally: Bullarook) is located west of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, between Woodend and Daylesford, at the Great Dividing Range. The forest is approximately in size and sits upon Ordovician or Cenozoic sediments. ... about halfway between Daylesford and Musk. On 15 September 1990 railmotor services were restored between Daylesford and Musk for the first time in 13 years. References External links * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Daylesford Railway Line
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The name Daylesford is borne by a number of settlements: *Daylesford, Victoria, Australia * Daylesford, Saskatchewan, in Rural Municipality of Lake Lenore No. 399, Canada *Daylesford, Gloucestershire, England *Daylesford, Pennsylvania, United States **Daylesford (SEPTA station), a commuter rail station See also * Daylesford Abbey * Daylesford Football Club * Daylesford Monastery * Daylesford Secondary College * Daylesford Spa Country Railway ** Daylesford railway station * Electoral district of Daylesford The Electoral district of Daylesford was an electoral district of the Victorian Legislative Assembly. It included the town of Daylesford, around 155 km north-west of Melbourne. It was merged, along with Maryborough, into the Electoral dist ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Flinders Street Railway Station
Flinders Street railway station is a train station located on the corner of Flinders Street, Melbourne, Flinders and Swanston Street, Swanston streets in the Melbourne city centre, central business district (CBD) of Melbourne, Victoria (Australia), Victoria, Australia. Opened in 1854, the historic station serves the entire Public Transport Victoria, metropolitan rail network, as well as some country services to eastern Victoria. Backing onto the Yarra River in the heart of the city, the complex includes platforms and structures that stretch over more than two whole city blocks, from east of Swanston Street nearly to Market Street, Melbourne, Market Street. Flinders Street is served by Metro Trains Melbourne, Metro's List of Melbourne railway stations, suburban services, and V/Line regional services to Bairnsdale V/Line rail service, Gippsland. It is the busiest station on Melbourne's metropolitan network, with an average of 77,153 daily entries recorded in the 2017/18 fiscal yea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Daylesford, Victoria
Daylesford is a spa town located in the foothills of the Great Dividing Range, within the Shire of Hepburn, Victoria (Australia), Victoria, Australia, approximately 108 kilometres north-west of Melbourne. First established in 1852 as a gold-mining town, today Daylesford has a population of 2,548 as of the 2016 Australian census, 2016 census. As one of Australia’s few spa towns, Daylesford is a notable tourist destination. The town’s numerous spas, restaurants and galleries are popular alongside the many gardens and country-house-conversion styled bed and breakfasts. The broader area around the town, including Hepburn Springs, Victoria, Hepburn Springs to the north, is known for its natural spring mineral spas and is the location of over 80 per cent of Australia's effervescent mineral water reserve. It is also the filming location for the third season of ''The Saddle Club'', and scenes from the 2004 film ''Love's Brother''. History Prior to European settlement the area was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Australia
Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a Sovereign state, sovereign country comprising the mainland of the Australia (continent), Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous List of islands of Australia, smaller islands. With an area of , Australia is the largest country by area in Oceania and the world's List of countries and dependencies by area, sixth-largest country. Australia is the oldest, flattest, and driest inhabited continent, with the least fertile soils. It is a Megadiverse countries, megadiverse country, and its size gives it a wide variety of landscapes and climates, with Deserts of Australia, deserts in the centre, tropical Forests of Australia, rainforests in the north-east, and List of mountains in Australia, mountain ranges in the south-east. The ancestors of Aboriginal Australians began arriving from south east Asia approximately Early human migrations#Nearby Oceania, 65,000 years ago, during the Last Glacial Period, last i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Daylesford Spa Country Railway
The Daylesford Spa Country Railway (which is operated by the Central Highlands Tourist Railway) is a volunteer-operated gauge tourist railway located in Victoria, Australia. It operates on a section of the closed and dismantled Daylesford line, and currently runs services between Daylesford and the hamlet of Bullarto. History Victorian Railways era The original line was opened in two stages, from the mainline junction at Carlsruhe to the town of Trentham, on 16 February 1880. The remainder of the line was opened a month later on 17 March. The line initially had significant goods and passenger traffic, with 50,000 passengers travelling the line in 1884 alone. However, over the next seventy years, both traffic and the quality of line gradually degraded, until the last passenger service was replaced with a road coach in 1978. Reopening as a tourist railway The Central Highlands Tourist Railway was founded two years later, and set about restoring the railway to operating condi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Daylesford Railway Station
Daylesford is a railway station that services the town of Daylesford, Victoria, Australia. Daylesford Station is a substantial brick building used by the Daylesford Spa Country Railway, the station yard consists of a number of tracks which are used to store heritage rollingstock. A goods shed is also located at the station. Opened on Wednesday, 17 March 1880, it was closed on Monday, 3 July 1978. During the mid to late 1980s the line reopened for tourist services, gangers trolleys conveyed passengers on short trips to the Wombat State Forest The Wombat State Forest (locally: Bullarook) is located west of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, between Woodend and Daylesford, at the Great Dividing Range. The forest is approximately in size and sits upon Ordovician or Cenozoic sediments. ... about halfway between Daylesford and Musk. On 15 September 1990 railmotor services were restored between Daylesford and Musk for the first time in 13 years. References External links * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Handcar
A handcar (also known as a pump trolley, pump car, rail push trolley, push-trolley, jigger, Kalamazoo, velocipede, or draisine) is a railroad car powered by its passengers, or by people pushing the car from behind. It is mostly used as a railway maintenance of way or mining car, but it was also used for passenger service in some cases. A typical design consists of an arm, called the walking beam, that pivots, seesaw-like, on a base, which the passengers alternately push down and pull up to move the car. Use It is a simple trolley, pushed by two or four people (called trolleymen), with hand brakes to stop the trolley. When the trolley slows down, two trolleymen jump off the trolley, and push it till it picks up speed. Then they jump into the trolley again, and the cycle continues. The trolleymen take turns in pushing the trolley so that the speed is maintained and two people do not get tired. Four people also required to safely lift the trolley off the rail tracks when a train app ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wombat State Forest
The Wombat State Forest (locally: Bullarook) is located west of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, between Woodend and Daylesford, at the Great Dividing Range. The forest is approximately in size and sits upon Ordovician or Cenozoic sediments. The Bullarook Wombat State Forest was proclaimed in 1871. The only initiative in Australia to introduce community forestry, within the internationally understood context, is in the Wombat State Forest. It is managed by the Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning. The management plan covers several areas such as firewood and other products; protection of water supplies; conservation of biodiversity; and conservation of landscape. Other areas of importance include cultural heritage, research, education, tourism, recreation, mineral exploration, mining, and grazing. On 24 June 2021, the Andrews State Government, following extensive review and recommendation, declerated that the Wombat State Forest would be added to the National ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Musk Railway Station
Musk railway station is in Musk, in central Victoria, Australia. It was opened in September 1881 under the name of Musk Creek, the name being shortened to Musk in 1905. The station closed with the line on Monday, 3 July 1978. In 1969, the platform was in length, and a weighbridge was in place. By 1975, the station was being worked under no-one-in-charge conditions. Re-opening During the mid to late 1980s, the Daylesford Spa Country Railway (DSCR) used ganger's trolleys to convey passengers on short trips from Daylesford station to the Wombat State Forest, about halfway between Daylesford and Musk. On 15 September 1990, the DSCR began railmotor Railmotor is a term used in the United Kingdom and elsewhere for a railway lightweight railcar, usually consisting of a railway carriage with a steam traction unit, or a diesel or petrol engine, integrated into it. Steam railcars Overview In th ... services between Daylesford and Musk, the first for the first time in 13 years. Th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
