Willenabrina is a locality located midway between the towns of

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and Rainbow in the Wimmera region of northwest Victoria,

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. The population at the was 9.

History

Originally gazetted as a railway township in the late 1880s (the Post Office opened on June 14, 1889 (closed in 1942), Willenabrina failed to develop when the railway line route beyond

was redirected. A few small shops, a school, a community hall, and a couple of churches, existed around the time of the First World War, along with a sports oval and tennis courts, however none of these facilities remain today.

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