Where Am I Victoria - Non Cryptic - #2

wongm · Posted: Thu Jul 24, 2008 1:56 pm

Broadford? It looks a bit like the 1950s precut departmental residences which were imported.

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Deep Throat · Posted: Thu Jul 24, 2008 9:26 pm

Not Broadford, wongm.

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RoderickSmith · Posted: Sat Jul 26, 2008 9:03 pm

Sorry about the out-of-scope entry. I was distracted by the nightclub nextdoor being bombed. Before I could retract it, the power was off and we were evacuated. I will remove it.

I had considered the UK precut houses, but couldn't find one which had been the original station building.

This entry: Rupertswood.

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Deep Throat · Posted: Sun Jul 27, 2008 1:43 am

RoderickSmith · Posted: Fri Aug 01, 2008 7:45 pm

Mathoura

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Deep Throat · Posted: Sat Aug 02, 2008 10:44 am

Not Mathoura.

The original station building which burnt down... was from the UK

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RoderickSmith · Posted: Mon Aug 04, 2008 4:21 pm

Sticking with D&M, Deniliquin.

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Deep Throat · Posted: Mon Aug 04, 2008 4:28 pm

Not Deniliquin. In fact, nowhere on the D & M.

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Deep Throat · Posted: Sun Aug 10, 2008 9:47 pm

The original station building which burnt down, and was replaced with a brick station still in use... was from the UK

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Boss · Posted: Tue Aug 26, 2008 8:02 am

I think we need a clue.

I never make mistakes. I thought I did once, but I was mistaken.

Deep Throat · Posted: Tue Aug 26, 2008 10:20 pm

The original station building which burnt down, and was replaced with a brick station still in use for passenger traffic... was imported with a series of others from adjacent stations in kit form from the UK

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penov · Posted: Wed Sep 10, 2008 11:39 am

Have the quizmaster or the respondents all died ????

Isn't there a rule about open forum after nil responses following a certain time ?

Deep Throat · Posted: Wed Sep 10, 2008 10:08 pm

Look, I'm happy for it to be thrown open - though I'd like to see someone else have a crack at posting a question.

It was Woodend, by the way. The original station burnt to the ground according to a local newspaper report, in which it was mentioned that it was imported from ENgland like other stations on the line in kit form from Manchester...

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penov · Posted: Thu Sep 11, 2008 12:39 pm

Thank you for your response, Deep Throat. I think most people ( as I was) were thinking of the myriad of “portable”, “demountable” or “kit-form” stations that the VR got around to using after the expense of building of the Geelong- Ballarat and Melbourne- Bendigo railway lines, which nearly broke the colonial government in the early 1860’s.

There is a photo of the original Woodend station in 1864 in the Harrigan “Bible” on page 86. It had at least fifteen huge columns across the face to the station on the platform side ( probably made of wood, but looking like the columns in front of Parliament House in Spring Street). It probably made a spectacular bonfire when it went up.

I well remember the portable stations of the East Malvern line in my younger days. Tooronga station had two buildings on the up platform, made of tongue and groove vertical timber bolted together with angle brackets on the inside. One held the Booking Office, Parcels office and Stationmaster’s Office. Separated by an asphalt way was the station entrance with booking windows and a wall of timetables and the second building comprised an open fronted waiting room with bench seats on three sides, a Ladies Room with door so mothers could change or feed their babies with another door to the yard paved with cinders comprising a thunder box building which was sewered by that stage. The roof of each building was carried over the entrance section where the two heavy gates were slammed shut by the station assistant
as soon as the Tait stopped at the platform

The Men’s Room (?) thunderbox building was always fifty yards down the platform to keep away the smell of the yellow deodorant blocks that were inches deep in the three feet of house gutter used as a urinal backed by a piece of flat gal iron painted in black bituminous paint.
There were hundreds of these little yellow balls which smelt like frozen blocks of urine and were always there – as fast as they melted, more would arrive. The railways must have supplied each station with a million a week.

On the down platform there was a different portable building – a
combined booking office and waiting room – all buildings had a verandah roof extending about six feet out over the platform. One building on each station had an iron combined fireplace and chimney tacked on one end to keep the stationmaster warm on cold winter days.
Every station on the line had a similar set up – whether they had a single or double platform at the time. No doubt they were easy to set up or move out as lines closed down. After the 1950’s the stations were all rebuilt to differing designs.

penov · Posted: Thu Sep 11, 2008 12:47 pm

After the above meanderings, I'll post a question ( although I'm better with metropolitan ones ) . This should go in about three hours.

Name the two shire tramways taken over by the V.R.