Location: Melbourne, Australia
Would anyone please share the lat and long for the former station site.
Location of the former railway station at Chewton
bevans
Site Admin
Location: Melbourne, Australia
kitchgp
Chief Commissioner
Would anyone please share the lat and long for the former station site.From VicSig Locations:
-37.0859, 144.2596
(Between Fryers Road and Railway Street)
bevans
Site Admin
Location: Melbourne, Australia
Would anyone please share the lat and long for the former station site.From VicSig Locations:
-37.0859, 144.2596
(Between Fryers Road and Railway Street)
Thanks when was this station removed?
kitchgp
Chief Commissioner
Closed 16 Jun 1975. No demolition date given. Perhaps with the RFR upgrade.
RustyRick
Chief Commissioner
Location: South West Vic
Closed 16 Jun 1975. No demolition date given. Perhaps with the RFR upgrade.Gone long before that. I was working in Castlemaine in the early 2000's, and there was no sign of it then.
freightgate
Minister for Railways
Location: Albury, New South Wales
Slightly off topic but white gills was there a station in that area of Bendigo and was it used to service the racecourse ?
RustyRick
Chief Commissioner
Location: South West Vic
White Hills - there was a platform for the racecourse. The remains are still visible off Andrew St.
duttonbay
Minister for Railways
There was a station named "Bendigo Racecourse". It was ¾ mile (1.2 km) beyond White Hills Siding. Formerly named Sandhurst Racecourse, and later Epsom Racecourse.
bevans
Site Admin
Location: Melbourne, Australia
There was a station named "Bendigo Racecourse". It was ¾ mile (1.2 km) beyond White Hills Siding. Formerly named Sandhurst Racecourse, and later Epsom Racecourse.
Why was White Hills called a siding was there a large business at that location?
RustyRick
Chief Commissioner
Location: South West Vic
Probably because there was no station.There was a station named "Bendigo Racecourse". It was ¾ mile (1.2 km) beyond White Hills Siding. Formerly named Sandhurst Racecourse, and later Epsom Racecourse.
Why was White Hills called a siding was there a large business at that location?
duttonbay
Minister for Railways
Don't know. According to VicSig the siding was located just on the up side of the the Heinz Street level crossing.There was a station named "Bendigo Racecourse". It was ¾ mile (1.2 km) beyond White Hills Siding. Formerly named Sandhurst Racecourse, and later Epsom Racecourse.
Why was White Hills called a siding was there a large business at that location?
Griffinrails Official
Junior Train Controller
Location: Dunno. (help i'm lost)
Making me hungry.Don't know. According to VicSig the siding was located just on the up side of the the Heinz Street level crossing.There was a station named "Bendigo Racecourse". It was ¾ mile (1.2 km) beyond White Hills Siding. Formerly named Sandhurst Racecourse, and later Epsom Racecourse.
Why was White Hills called a siding was there a large business at that location?
BrentonGolding
Chief Commissioner
Location: Maldon Junction
Early 2000's? So did you work in Casselmaine or CarSellmaine?Closed 16 Jun 1975. No demolition date given. Perhaps with the RFR upgrade.Gone long before that. I was working in Castlemaine in the early 2000's, and there was no sign of it then.
RustyRick
Chief Commissioner
Location: South West Vic
Casselmaine. Not the stuck up Newcarsle pronunciation.
historian
Chief Commissioner
There was a station named "Bendigo Racecourse". It was ¾ mile (1.2 km) beyond White Hills Siding. Formerly named Sandhurst Racecourse, and later Epsom Racecourse.
Why was White Hills called a siding was there a large business at that location?
White Hills was a siding because it was not open as a passenger station. There were two parts to the siding: a public siding and a VR ballast pit loading gravel from White Hills.
It's technically the first location opened on the Echuca line - it was the site of the contractor's depot and was the source of the ballast for the line. It appears to have been retained as a ballast siding after the opening of the line. In 1906 a public goods siding was provided. By 1929 it was open for outwards gravel, fruit, and vegtables. The ballast siding was closed in 1941 and lifted beyond the railway boundary; probably to reclaim the rails for more important work. The remainder of the siding lasted until 1983 when it was removed. At this date it was unlikely to be used for public traffic. A more likely use would have been to store vehicles for the workshops, as most of the sidings in the vicinity were used.
historian
Chief Commissioner
Gone by the mid '80s. The platforms had been cut back to facilitate drainage and trackwork, and I can remember noting the line of platform gravel still in the bank.Closed 16 Jun 1975. No demolition date given. Perhaps with the RFR upgrade.Gone long before that. I was working in Castlemaine in the early 2000's, and there was no sign of it then.
RustyRick
Chief Commissioner
Location: South West Vic
There was a station named "Bendigo Racecourse". It was ¾ mile (1.2 km) beyond White Hills Siding. Formerly named Sandhurst Racecourse, and later Epsom Racecourse.The remains of Bendigo Racecourse. Look closely and you can see the wires from the platform bracing hanging out of the ground.
BrentonGolding
Chief Commissioner
Location: Maldon Junction
Casselmaine. Not the stuck up Newcarsle pronunciation.Actually being from Adelaide my first instinct is to say CarSellmaine but I quickly worked out that you stand out like nuts on a tall dog if you do!
And don't even start me on how to pronounce Gingell St!
BigShunter
Chief Commissioner
Location: St Clair. S.A.
Off track here but anyway, you don't live near DonKarster by any chance, BG ?Casselmaine. Not the stuck up Newcarsle pronunciation.Actually being from Adelaide my first instinct is to say CarSellmaine but I quickly worked out that you stand out like nuts on a tall dog if you do!
And don't even start me on how to pronounce Gingell St!
BigShunter.
The Vinelander
Minister for Railways
Location: Ballan, Victoria on the Ballarat Line
Casselmaine. Not the stuck up Newcarsle pronunciation.Actually being from Adelaide my first instinct is to say CarSellmaine but I quickly worked out that you stand out like nuts on a tall dog if you do!
And don't even start me on how to pronounce Gingell St!
That would be pronounced as 'Ginjl' street, with a hard 'G', with the second 'g' being soft...being a former resident and all.
And it's definitely pronounced Casselmaine.
And whilst we are on a about Chewton station, my late grandfather rode his bike out there to the station every day for 22 years from Parker St, Castlemaine. His bike had no gears, so a lot of walking was involved on the hills and Google maps gives his one way ride in all weathers and white frosts as he was at work by 8am on the VR, Ways and Works Branch, Chewton track gang as 5.5Km.
So that's 11Km a day and 55Km a week, which I'm certain being a man of clean habits set him up for his relatively long life of 96 years.
He retired maximum age (65)in 1967.
Mike.
Valvegear
Oliver Bullied, CME
Location: Richmond Vic
Off track here but anyway, you don't live near DonKarster by any chance, BG ?Correct pronunciation is Donk'ster.
BrentonGolding
Chief Commissioner
Location: Maldon Junction
So here's the rub. That is EXACTLY how I pronounced Gingell when I first moved here. And I got laughed at. Every cab driver, Railway Hotel front bar regular and pretty much anyone else that I have met in my time here who is not a blow in pronounces it something like Jingle. No, I don't get it either.......Casselmaine. Not the stuck up Newcarsle pronunciation.Actually being from Adelaide my first instinct is to say CarSellmaine but I quickly worked out that you stand out like nuts on a tall dog if you do!
And don't even start me on how to pronounce Gingell St!
That would be pronounced as 'Ginjl' street, with a hard 'G', with the second 'g' being soft...being a former resident and all.
Mike.
The Vinelander
Minister for Railways
Location: Ballan, Victoria on the Ballarat Line
So here's the rub. That is EXACTLY how I pronounced Gingell when I first moved here. And I got laughed at. Every cab driver, Railway Hotel front bar regular and pretty much anyone else that I have met in my time here who is not a blow in pronounces it something like Jingle. No, I don't get it either.......Casselmaine. Not the stuck up Newcarsle pronunciation.Actually being from Adelaide my first instinct is to say CarSellmaine but I quickly worked out that you stand out like nuts on a tall dog if you do!
And don't even start me on how to pronounce Gingell St!
That would be pronounced as 'Ginjl' street, with a hard 'G', with the second 'g' being soft...being a former resident and all.
Mike.
It sound like they were perhaps second generation 'blow-ins' perhaps originally from the Republic of Moreland etc.
My grandmother...dearly departed 40 years ago pronounced it as I wrote above. So Brenton, you are correct and you have the last laugh.
The funny thing with language of course is that if enough people say a word, incorrectly or otherwise often enough, the pronunciation may stick.
Mike.