Dooen is a locality situated in the

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region, Western Victoria,

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. The Henty Highway between

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and

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passes through the Dooen. At the 2021 census, Dooen had a population of 250. Dooen Post Office opened on 1 September 1877 and closed in 1982. The Old Dooen pub is one of the few remaining occupied buildings and is popular amongst the agricultural students of Longerenong College. The Dooen School closed in 1994, the Dooen Hall is all that remains on the site.

Communications

The ABC Western Victoria transmitter at Dooen, named 594 3WV, was built in 1936. The mast is 201 metres tall and the transmitter generates 50

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s of power, with only 13 other more powerful broadcast towers in Australia. The lattice work at the top of the mast is 19 metres in diameter.

Transport

The Wimmera Intermodal Freight Terminal (aka

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) opened on the Western standard gauge line at Dooen in August 2012. By 2014 over 700 ISO containers were moving through the terminal each week, on one of nine weekly intermodal trains between Melbourne and Dooen.

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