Moriac is a closed station on the

Warrnambool railway line The Warrnambool railway line (also known as the South West line, formerly known as the Port Fairy railway line) is a railway serving the south west of Victoria, Australia. Running from the western Melbourne suburb of Newport through the citi ...

, located in the town of

Moriac, Victoria Moriac is a town in Victoria (Australia), Victoria, Australia, located approximately west of Geelong, Victoria, Geelong. It forms part of the Surf Coast Shire. At the 2016 Australian census, 2016 census, Moriac had a population of 782. A Post O ...

. The station opened on 1 October 1877, and was one of 35 stations in Victoria, and five on the Warrnambool line, which were closed to passenger traffic on 4 October 1981, as part of the so-called ''

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'' for country passengers. Moriac station was the junction of the short branch line south to

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, which opened in 1889, and was closed in 1948. The station was the scene of a fatal accident in April 1952. A woman was killed when a Melbourne-bound train collided with a Warrnambool-bound train which was still shunting into siding at the station to allow the Melbourne-bound train to pass it on the single track. The victim was in the first carriage of the Melbourne-bound train, which was telescoped after being forced into the tender of the locomotive. The

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platform facing remains, along with the earth goods loading bank, and a wooden buffer stop.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Moriac Railway Station Railway stations closed in 1981 Disused railway stations in Victoria (state)