Pic Nic railway station, alternatively Pic-Nic, Pic-nic or Picnic, was a railway station in

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. It was located on the Hawthorn line (now the Alamein,

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and Lilydale lines), on the Melbourne side of the Hawthorn Railway Bridge, between Church Street (now East Richmond) and

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stations and served the adjacent Burnley Park. The line to the station was opened by the

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on 24 September 1860, but was extended to

7 months later, with the completion of the Hawthorn Railway Bridge across the

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. The station saw the sale of the line to the

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in 1878 and the duplication to Hawthorn in 1882. The station was the scene of a serious accident on 2 December 1882, when two trains collided head-on. One person was killed and 178 injured when a special train, returning from land sales at Box Hill, collided with a scheduled train from Melbourne to

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. On 6 October 1895, Pic Nic was closed as a block point, and the approximate site has an

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, to this day, although this may be coincidence. The station closed to all traffic on 19 July 1898.

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Disused railway stations in Melbourne Railway stations in Australia opened in 1860 Railway stations closed in 1898 1898 disestablishments in Australia Railway stations in Australia closed in the 19th century {{VictoriaAU-railstation-stub