Echuca railway station is located on the Deniliquin line in

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. It serves the town of

Echuca Echuca ( ) is a town on the banks of the Murray River and Campaspe River in Victoria, Australia. The border town of Moama is adjacent on the northern side of the Murray River in New South Wales. Echuca is the administrative centre and largest s ...

, and opened on 19 September 1864.Echuca
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on the Deniliquin line, and is the

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for Echuca line services. It also serves as the terminus of the freight-only Toolamba–Echuca line. The Deniliquin line operates northwards, over the

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state border, for freight traffic. Freight sidings and a

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are located opposite the station.

History

The railway reached Echuca in 1864 and, with the opening of the

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, the town was transformed into a major

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, encouraging substantial urban growth in the 1870s. In 1876, the

Deniliquin and Moama Railway Company The Deniliquin and Moama Railway Company was a railway company formed by a syndicate of Victorian capitalists to construct a railway from Moama to Deniliquin in New South Wales, Australia."The Deniliquin and Moama Railway Company" ''Australian R ...

opened its -long private railway northwards to

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. The brick station building at Echuca was provided with the opening of the line, along with a double-gabled brick

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, and a three-road

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. The station building was expanded in 1877, and a large

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was erected in the same year (demolished in 1977). An iron

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was added in 1880. In June 1974, the former northern waiting room section of the station building was demolished. The concrete rail bridge over the

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, to the north of the station, opened in February 1989, replacing a combined road and rail bridge that opened in 1878. A short branch line between Echuca and the port opened with the line, but was closed in 1971. In 2000, $150,000 was provided to fund the reconstruction of the line. By 2002, work was underway, with the cost increased to $330,000. However, by 2007, the branch was out of use and was disconnected from the main line. The branch line from Echuca to

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closed in 2007, but was reopened in October 2013. Services on the line were suspended in January 2020.Toolamba-Echuca Line
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Platforms and services

Echuca has one platform. It is served by terminating Echuca line trains from

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.Echuca/Moama - Melbourne timetable
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Transport links

Echuca is also served by

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road coach services between

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and

Moama Moama ( or ) is a town in the Riverina district of southern New South Wales, Australia, in the Murray River Council local government area. The town is directly across the Murray River from the larger town of Echuca in the neighbouring state ...

, and

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road coach services to

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and

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Gallery

File:Echuca railway station building.jpg, Station front and entrance in June 2015

References

External links

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Victorian Railway Stations galleryMelway map
at street-directory.com.au {{Public Transport Victoria railway stations, Northern=y, state=collapsed Echuca-Moama Railway stations in Australia opened in 1864 Regional railway stations in Victoria (Australia)