Belgrave (Puffing Billy) railway station is situated in
Belgrave, a suburb of Melbourne in the Australian state of
Victoria
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. It is the inner terminal of the famous
Puffing Billy heritage steam railway.
Belgrave (Puffing Billy) is adjacent to, and forms an interchange with,
Belgrave suburban railway station, which is the outer terminal of the
Belgrave line
The Belgrave line is a commuter railway line on the Railways in Melbourne, Melbourne metropolitan railway network serving the city of Melbourne in Victoria (Australia), Victoria, Australia. Operated by Metro Trains Melbourne, the line is colour ...
of Melbourne's
broad gauge
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Broad gauge of , more known as Russian gauge, is the dominant track gauge in former Soviet Union countries ...
(5 ft 3in) electric suburban network. The suburban station is accessible via a short footpath. Before this station was built, the original narrow gauge line ran from the original site of the
narrow-gauge
A narrow-gauge railway (narrow-gauge railroad in the US) is a railway with a track gauge (distance between the rails) narrower than . Most narrow-gauge railways are between and .
Since narrow-gauge railways are usually built with tighter curv ...
station (approximately where the existing
Metro
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station car park is) to
Selby station.
Gallery
File:PuffingBillyBelgraveStation2.jpg, The entrance and booking windows of Belgrave Station
See also
*
Puffing Billy Railway
The Puffing Billy Railway is a Narrow gauge railway, narrow gauge heritage railway in the southern foothills of the Dandenong Ranges in Melbourne, Australia. The railway was one of the five narrow gauge lines of the Victorian Railways, narr ...
External links
Melway mapOfficial website
Tourist railway stations in Melbourne
Railway stations in the Shire of Yarra Ranges
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