Bruthen Railway Station was opened on Monday 10 April 1916, as part of the

Orbost railway line The Gippsland line (also known as the Orbost railway line) is a railway line serving the Latrobe Valley and Gippsland regions of Victoria, Australia. It runs east from the state capital Melbourne through the cities of Moe, Morwell, Traralgo ...

. The station officially closed on Monday, 24 August 1987. The former platform remains evident at the station site, with the site remaining as part of the East Gippsland Rail Trail, which follows the route of the former

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. The station itself is slightly to the West of the town of Bruthen. In town, the railway alignment and rail trail pass through a short tunnel below the main street, and then skirt around the southern edge of Bruthen, crossing the large Storer Bridge, and over the Tambo River, which is now sealed with boards as the rail trail surface. It was dis-established as a staff station on 25 July 1986, with the staff and ticket sections

Bairnsdale Bairnsdale () ( Ganai: ''Wy-yung'') is a city in East Gippsland, Victoria, Australia in a region traditionally owned by the Tatungalung clan of the Gunaikurnai people. The estimated population of Bairnsdale urban area was 15,411 at Ju ...

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Nowa Nowa Nowa Nowa is a small town in the Australian state of Victoria. It is in East Gippsland East Gippsland is the eastern region of Gippsland, Victoria, Australia covering 31,740 square kilometres (14%) of Victoria. It has a population of 80, ...

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Orbost Orbost is a historic early settlers town in the Shire of East Gippsland, Victoria, east of Melbourne and south of Canberra where the Princes Highway crosses the Snowy River. It is about from the surf and fishing seaside town of Marlo on th ...

abolished, and replaced with a single staff and ticket section; Bairnsdale - Orbost.

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