Creswick railway station is located on the Mildura line in

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. It serves the town of

Creswick Creswick is a town in west-central Victoria, Australia, 18 kilometres north of Ballarat and 122 kilometres northwest of Melbourne, in the Shire of Hepburn. It is 430 metres above sea level. At the 2016 census, Creswick had a populatio ...

, and the original station opened on 7 July 1874.Creswick
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History

The station closed on 12 September 1993, after ''

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'' service to

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was withdrawn and replaced by road coaches. A new platform, inaugurated on 25 July 2010, was constructed to cater for the restoration of passenger services from

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to Maryborough. When the return of passenger services was announced, the

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said that the cost of repairing the station building and upgrading the old platform for wheelchair access was too high, so the new platform was provided. In 2010, local residents proposed that the disused station building be developed into a community hub, with the support of the Hepburn Shire Council and

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. The new platform is located on the eastern side of the line, with a steel shelter provided for waiting passengers. The former station building, platform and

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are on the western side of the line, with a pedestrian subway passing underneath the tracks at the southern ( up) end. The original station building is listed on the

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. A

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is also located on the site, with no tracks connected. The

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for a

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to Daylesford was approximately 1.6 kilometres north of Creswick, at the former North Creswick station. That branch was constructed in the 1880s and operated until 1952, when it was cut back to

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. It was further truncated to Allendale in 1976, and closed completely in 1985. In 1988, Creswick was disestablished as an

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station, with all

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, points and

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, and the signal box, abolished.

Platforms and services

Creswick has one platform. It is served by

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Maryborough line trains. Platform 1: * services to Maryborough and

Transport Links

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operates one bus route via Creswick station, under contract to

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: *: Ballarat station –

operates road coach services via Creswick station, from

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.Mildura - Melbourne
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References

External links

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