Korong Vale Reference Area

	Korong Vale Reference Area Korong may refer to: Shire of Korong, a former local government area in Victoria, Australia Korong Vale, Victoria, a town within the Shire of Korong Korong Vale railway station, a former railway station in the town Electoral district of Korong, the state parliamentary electorate for the area Korong Station, a pastoral lease in the Goldfields of Western Australia. Mount Korong, the former name of the town of Wedderburn, Victoria Wedderburn is a rural town in Victoria, Australia on the Calder Highway, north of Victoria's capital city, Melbourne. At the , Wedderburn had a population of 680. It is mainly a farming community but its early residents were gold miners and pro ... {{geodis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Shire Of Korong The Shire of Korong was a local government area about west-northwest of Bendigo, in western Victoria, Australia. The shire covered an area of , and existed from 1862 until 1995. History Korong Shire was first incorporated as the Kingower and Wedderburne road district on 8 July 1862, and was renamed Korong at the time of its redesignation as a shire on 6 September 1864. On 1 February 1961, it annexed the Borough of Inglewood, which had been created a century earlier. Accessed at State Library of Victoria, La Trobe Reading Room. On 20 January 1995, the Shire of Korong was abolished, and along with the Shires of East Loddon and Gordon, the Loddon River district of the former Rural City of Marong, and surrounding districts, was merged into the newly created Shire of Loddon The Shire of Loddon is a local government area in Victoria, Australia, located in the northern part of the state. It covers an area of and in 2021 had a population of 7,759. It includes the towns of In ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Korong Vale, Victoria Korong Vale is a town in north western Victoria. The town is in the Shire of Loddon, north west of the state capital of Melbourne. At the , Korong Vale had a population of 168. Korongvale Post Office opened on 17 May 1879 and was renamed Korong Vale around 1945. Korong Vale—as the junction of the Kulwin and Robinvale railway lines—was a major railway town A railway town, or railroad town, is a settlement that originated or was greatly developed because of a railway station or junction at its site. North America During the construction of the First transcontinental railroad in the 1860s, temporar ... for many years and much of the population was made up of railway staff and their families. The local railway station also had a locomotive depot and railway yard. In 2009 the only rail infrastructure remaining was a single crossing loop and a single point for the junction for the lines to Kulwin and Robinvale. Post WW2, Korong Vale was a thriving town servicing the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Korong Vale Railway Station Korong Vale is a demolished railway station, located at the junction of the Robinvale and Kulwin railway lines, in the township of Korong Vale, Victoria, Australia. Only freight trains use the line though the station. At the peak of operations, the station had an island platform with footbridge access, two signal boxes, a marshalling yard, goods platform and shed, and a weighbridge. Rationalisation was carried out in the 1980s.Victorian Railways signal diagram At the southern (Melbourne) end of the station site is a passing loop, while at the northern end is the junction of the two lines. A water tower and standpipe for steam locomotives is also located at the station. During rationalisation, on 30 June 1987, the staff and ticket between Korong Vale and Charlton/Wycheproof was replaced with electric staff Electricity is the set of physical phenomena associated with the presence and motion of matter that has a property of electric charge. Electricity is related to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Electoral District Of Korong The Electoral district of Korong was an Victorian Legislative Assembly electoral districts, electoral district of the Victorian Legislative Assembly, Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Victoria (Australia), Victoria.Re-Member Parliament of Victoria. It was created by Electoral Act Amendment Act 1888 its area was defined as: "''Commencing at the intersection of the Loddon River with the Eaglehawk and Inglewood Railway ; thence down the river to the north-east angle of the parish of Leaghur; along the northern and western boundaries of that parish to south-east angle of the parish of Gredgwin ; along the south and south-western boundaries of that parish to the south-east angle of the parish of Quambatook ; westerly by the south boundary of that parish to the Avoca River ; southerly by that river to the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Korong Station Korong Station was a pastoral lease that operated as a sheep station in Western Australia. It is situated approximately west of Laverton and east of Leonora in the Goldfields-Esperance region. The property adjoins Mount Crawford Station. Gold was being mined at leases named Korong on the Mount Margaret goldfields in 1898. The station was established at some time prior to 1914 and was breeding sheep at this time but not heavily stocked as a result of insufficient rain. In 1926 the property was supporting a flock of 5,000 sheep. The homestead burnt to the ground in 1928 following a fire that started in the kitchen. The stations manager's wife, Mrs Williams, was the only one home when the fire started. The station manager, Mr Williams, was a shareholder in the pastoral company that owned Korong. The property was running about 7,000 sheep at this time, despite it being a dry year. By 1935 the property was running a flock of 12,000 sheep and shearing produced 250 bales of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]