looking at this map https://www.victrack.com.au/~/media/bd04c1eab7b044ce80bc7b14953b2e0f.kml
it's interesting to see which lines Have been sold off. Clearly the earlier closed the more likely to be sold.
For example Casterton is still there but not Coleraine.

Have rail trails taken some rail right of ways. For example the section on the Port Fairy rail trail is not but the section from Koroit to Hamilton is.

The map shows Tallarook to Merton but not to Mansfield

If that's accurate there's some oddities and some farmers that haven't bought the land they're using.

G'day all.
Does it seem odd to anyone that Victrack still have the majority of the land from Heathcote Junction to Kilmore but none any further? I couldn't see them ever justifying rebuilding that section of line anytime in our lifetime!

looking at this map https://www.victrack.com.au/~/media/bd04c1eab7b044ce80bc7b14953b2e0f.kml
it's interesting to see which lines Have been sold off. Clearly the earlier closed the more likely to be sold.
For example Casterton is still there but not Coleraine.

Have rail trails taken some rail right of ways. For example the section on the Port Fairy rail trail is not but the section from Koroit to Hamilton is.

The map shows Tallarook to Merton but not to Mansfield

As I can't get the map to open... just wondering about the Daylesford Line from Carlsrhue [is it] still VicTrack land?

As I can't get the map to open...just wondering about the Daylesford Line from Carlsrhue ..still VicTrack land ...thanks.

Mike.

As I can't get the map to open...just wondering about the Daylesford Line from Carlsrhue ..still VicTrack land ...thanks.

Mike.It is. I have often thought that this would be a future candidate for re-opening at some stage due to the fact that it would add extra services to Woodend and Gisborne which are both suffering growing pains as well as picking up pax from the growing towns of Daylesford and Trentham

Unsurprisingly the land for the Daylesford - North Creswick line doesn't appear on the map

BG

Some rail trails (such as the Warburton Trail) are outright owned by the local council, having purchased the land off VicTrack. Other rail trails (particularly the more recent ones) use a VicTrack leasing agreement that has provisions for reactivation of the railway line in the future.

As I can't get the map to open...just wondering about the Daylesford Line from Carlsrhue ..still VicTrack land ...thanks.

Mike.It is. I have often thought that this would be a future candidate for re-opening at some stage due to the fact that it would add extra services to Woodend and Gisborne which are both suffering growing pains as well as picking up pax from the growing towns of Daylesford and Trentham

Unsurprisingly the land for the Daylesford - North Creswick line doesn't appear on the map

BGWhat would the difference between that and adding more Kyneton locals?

As I can't get the map to open... just wondering about the Daylesford Line from Carlsrhue [is it] still VicTrack land?

Yes it is.

Not much of the North Creswick - Daylesford line left in VicTrack's hands though - just the section from North Creswick to Newlyn.

Some rail trails (such as the Warburton Trail) are outright owned by the local council, having purchased the land off VicTrack. Other rail trails (particularly the more recent ones) use a VicTrack leasing agreement that has provisions for reactivation of the railway line in the future.

A part of the Warburton easement, close to the Lilydale end, passes through the sports ground of a local school, is fenced off and does not form part of the Trail.  If you want to walk or ride the trail from Lilydale, you have to go around the sports ground on ordinary footpaths before rejoining the easement on the far side.  Does the school own this piece of easement, or have they leased it from the Council?  In either case, is there any chance that access along it could be reinstated?

Bit difficult to do at Koo Wee Rup as they've pulled the track up and built a Woolies on part of it (like Cobram), they'd have to skyrail it.

• The Woolworths is in line with the other properties along the reservation.
• The Toilet block does seem to jut into the right of way, but
• Any reinstating of the train line will probably happen with grade separations, so the line will be trenched in that section, so it may not follow where the original line was exactly, especially given the width of the reservation at that point.
• The toilets would be replaced by toilets in the station itself.

• Any reinstating of the train line will probably happen with grade separations, so the line will be trenched in that section, so it may not follow where the original line was exactly, especially given the width of the reservation at that point.

• Any reinstating of the train line will probably happen with grade separations, so the line will be trenched in that section, so it may not follow where the original line was exactly, especially given the width of the reservation at that point.

You do realise that Koo Wee Rup is in a former swamp? That the whole area is extremely water logged? And that the former railway line cuts across the main drains that ensure the area to the north east as far as Tynong doesn't flood?

If the line is ever reopened to Koo Wee Rup, any grade separations will not involve digging. Either the rail would be raised, or the road.

The Woolies is built on the former railway goods yard. The alignment of the main line, though, is clear.

Ballarat Redan line minus the golf course

Not being familiar with the area, I'm judging based off Google Maps.

• The Woolworths is in line with the other properties along the reservation.


• The Toilet block does seem to jut into the right of way, but


• Any reinstating of the train line will probably happen with grade separations, so the line will be trenched in that section, so it may not follow where the original line was exactly, especially given the width of the reservation at that point.


• The toilets would be replaced by toilets in the station itself.

Some rail trails (such as the Warburton Trail) are outright owned by the local council, having purchased the land off VicTrack. Other rail trails (particularly the more recent ones) use a VicTrack leasing agreement that has provisions for reactivation of the railway line in the future.

A part of the Warburton easement, close to the Lilydale end, passes through the sports ground of a local school, is fenced off and does not form part of the Trail.  If you want to walk or ride the trail from Lilydale, you have to go around the sports ground on ordinary footpaths before rejoining the easement on the far side.  Does the school own this piece of easement, or have they leased it from the Council?  In either case, is there any chance that access along it could be reinstated?

In the 2001 edition of Melways, it's show the trail going though the the school.