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Fern Hill Railway Station
Fern Hill railway station on the Daylesford railway line in Victoria, 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, sma ... was opened on Monday, 16 February 1880, and closed on Monday, 3 July 1978. Very little remains of the former Fern Hill Station. The former station building was burnt down and most of the area is overgrown. A row of cypress trees marks the road off James Lane leading to the station site, and the platform remains can still be seen. By 1969, the platform was 72.5m in length, and by 1975, a crane still existed at the station. References Disused railway stations in Victoria (Australia) {{VictoriaAU-railstation-stub ...
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Daylesford Railway Line
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 ...
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Trentham Railway Station, Victoria
Trentham railway station is a closed railway station in the town of Trentham, Victoria, 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, sma ..., on the former Carlsruhe-to- Daylesford line. It opened on Monday, 16 February 1880, and was closed on Monday, 3 July 1978. The station building, platform and goods shed, and a short section of track, have all been retained, although no train services currently operate from the station. Tenants live at the station and look after it as a museum. Although most of the line's track has been removed, the land is still zoned for railway use, and track still exists for 1 km on either side of the station. The DSCR tourist railway plans to re-lay and restore track in the future. Some rolling stock is still kept in the former yard. By ...
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List Of Closed Railway Stations In Victoria
This is a list of former railway stations and railway lines in Victoria, Australia. Many of these stations and lines have been abandoned or demolished. There is a strong desire by communities to have many of these re-opened to better link Regional Victoria to the state capital Melbourne. Public transport has become increasingly popular in the 21st century for convenience and affordability reasons. For closed railway stations in suburban Melbourne, see List of closed railway stations in Melbourne. Mildura line Originally withdrawn on 12 September 1993. Once served by ''The Vinelander'' service, the line branches from the Serviceton line at Ballarat. * Dunolly * St Arnaud *Donald *Birchip *Ouyen * Red Cliffs *Irymple *Mildura Leongatha line The passenger service was withdrawn on 24 July 1993, but the Dandenong to Cranbourne section was later electrified and became part of the Melbourne suburban rail network in 1995. *Cranbourne East *Clyde *Tooradin *Koo Wee Rup *Lang Lan ...
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Victoria (Australia)
Victoria is a state in southeastern Australia. It is the second-smallest state with a land area of , the second most populated state (after New South Wales) with a population of over 6.5 million, and the most densely populated state in Australia (28 per km2). Victoria is bordered by New South Wales to the north and South Australia to the west, and is bounded by the Bass Strait to the south (with the exception of a small land border with Tasmania located along Boundary Islet), the Great Australian Bight portion of the Southern Ocean to the southwest, and the Tasman Sea (a marginal sea of the South Pacific Ocean) to the southeast. The state encompasses a range of climates and geographical features from its temperate coastal and central regions to the Victorian Alps in the northeast and the semi-arid north-west. The majority of the Victorian population is concentrated in the central-south area surrounding Port Phillip Bay, and in particular within the metropolit ...
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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 ...
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