Location: Southern Riverina
Morkalla it is, mikesyd.
Where am I Victoria? - Non Cryptic - #3
Rodo
Chief Commissioner
Location: Southern Riverina
mikesyd
Chief Commissioner
Location: Lurking
The stumbling block was the 'substantial platform' - is anyone aware of any photos that exist?
Moving on in the meantime:
I am a Former Junction station, at which the present station carries its third name.
Moving on in the meantime:
I am a Former Junction station, at which the present station carries its third name.
RustyRick
Chief Commissioner
Location: South West Vic
The stumbling block was the 'substantial platform' - is anyone aware of any photos that exist?***Slaps head*** Not exactly a substantial platform, but I've been there not that long ago.
Rick
mikesyd
Chief Commissioner
Location: Lurking
***Slaps head*** Not exactly a substantial platform, but I've been there not that long ago.Substantially bigger that some others that were erased.
Rick
Anyway, back to the hunt with the current one brought forward.
I am a Former Junction station, at which the present station carries its third name.
RustyRick
Chief Commissioner
Location: South West Vic
Clarkefield/
Rick
Rick
mikesyd
Chief Commissioner
Location: Lurking
Yes, Clarkefield it is. Over to you RustyRick.
Originally opened in 1861/2 (with, or shortly after, the opening of the line) as Lancefield Road, then renamed to Lancefield Junction in 1881/2 when the Lancefield line was opened, then renamed to Clarkefield in 1926. Actually it had 4 names, as it was Clarkfield for a few weeks in 1926 - presumably a spelling error that was rectified when someone noticed. There is a large timber viaduct over Bolinda Creek about 1-2km out on the Lancefield line that is on the Heritage Reqister.
There is also an historic Bluestone "Watering Hole" in the form of the Coach and Horses Inn which dates from 1857 (before the railway) about 100m from the station.
I have a family connection to the place as my Great Grandfather was a Ganger there from about 1884 to 1888, during which time he married the daughter of another Ganger and their first child was born there.
Originally opened in 1861/2 (with, or shortly after, the opening of the line) as Lancefield Road, then renamed to Lancefield Junction in 1881/2 when the Lancefield line was opened, then renamed to Clarkefield in 1926. Actually it had 4 names, as it was Clarkfield for a few weeks in 1926 - presumably a spelling error that was rectified when someone noticed. There is a large timber viaduct over Bolinda Creek about 1-2km out on the Lancefield line that is on the Heritage Reqister.
There is also an historic Bluestone "Watering Hole" in the form of the Coach and Horses Inn which dates from 1857 (before the railway) about 100m from the station.
I have a family connection to the place as my Great Grandfather was a Ganger there from about 1884 to 1888, during which time he married the daughter of another Ganger and their first child was born there.
RustyRick
Chief Commissioner
Location: South West Vic
Thanks Mikesyd. I'll have to have a bit of a think for a day or so. I'll have something up by Sunday night.
Rick
Rick
RustyRick
Chief Commissioner
Location: South West Vic
This location was to have a 53' turntable installed, but no turntable was ever built here.
Rick
Rick
RustyRick
Chief Commissioner
Location: South West Vic
This location was to have a 53' turntable installed, but no turntable was ever built here.It did have another method of turning though.
Rick
Rodo
Chief Commissioner
Location: Southern Riverina
Serviceton perhaps ?
RustyRick
Chief Commissioner
Location: South West Vic
Not Serviceton.
I was a terminus for a few years before the line was extended.
I was a terminus for a few years before the line was extended.
RustyRick
Chief Commissioner
Location: South West Vic
Not Serviceton.The extension didn't cover costs, so it was lifted after a few years. This site remained the terminus until the lines eventual closure.
I was a terminus for a few years before the line was extended.
Edit - reworded the clue.
Rick
Rodo
Chief Commissioner
Location: Southern Riverina
Meringuer did have a triangle and no turntable. It was not a terminus for quite a few years until the Morkalla extension was closed.
RustyRick
Chief Commissioner
Location: South West Vic
Meringur it is. Bit of a coincidence that I had it in mind for a while, then Morkalla came up. Anyway, I've seen an early drawing for the station site that showed that a turntable was planned, but I guess seeming it's out on the wide open plains a triangle was probably the cheaper option.
All yours Rodo.
Rick
All yours Rodo.
Rick
Rodo
Chief Commissioner
Location: Southern Riverina
This was a terminus station, now closed. The line ended in a cutting where the fairly extensive sidings joined in a neck where freight trains would gravitate their wagons back into the fairly large yard.
There was a surveyed right of way going beyond the cutting through the township with some kind of plan to extend the line up the valley to the next township. The extension was never built.
The sidings served a sawmill and a freight shed with the passenger platform and brick station opposite.
There was also an engine shed and turntable.
There was a surveyed right of way going beyond the cutting through the township with some kind of plan to extend the line up the valley to the next township. The extension was never built.
The sidings served a sawmill and a freight shed with the passenger platform and brick station opposite.
There was also an engine shed and turntable.
Valvegear
Oliver Bullied, CME
Location: Richmond Vic
An uneducated punt at Noojee.
Rodo
Chief Commissioner
Location: Southern Riverina
Noojee lacked the end of the line in a cutting and a brick station, amongst other things.
Not a bad guess just the same but in the wrong part of the state.
Not a bad guess just the same but in the wrong part of the state.
Rodo
Chief Commissioner
Location: Southern Riverina
In the more declining years of the branch pine pulp wood formed a significant outward traffic.
dmgrail
Junior Train Controller
Location: Wangaratta Vic. 3677
Bright
The proposed extension was to run to Harrietville.
Nothing to provide, so open floor!
The proposed extension was to run to Harrietville.
Nothing to provide, so open floor!
Rodo
Chief Commissioner
Location: Southern Riverina
Right on the ball dmgrail. I hope that somebody can come up with a post, otherwise I may have make up another.
brownhillboy
Train Controller
Here's one....
An active line still passes through the site of this closed station.
Back in the eighties, it was proposed that the station become the terminus of the line. Traffic to or from this location had been absent for years, but at the time of the closure proposal, newly obtained container traffic was being handled at the site, and a few bitumen tankers were also unloaded there.
This traffic only lasted a couple of years, and eventually, a new terminus was selected.
An active line still passes through the site of this closed station.
Back in the eighties, it was proposed that the station become the terminus of the line. Traffic to or from this location had been absent for years, but at the time of the closure proposal, newly obtained container traffic was being handled at the site, and a few bitumen tankers were also unloaded there.
This traffic only lasted a couple of years, and eventually, a new terminus was selected.
Rodo
Chief Commissioner
Location: Southern Riverina
A closed station that might roughly approximate this is Hillside, just short of Bairnsdale.
brownhillboy
Train Controller
A closed station that might roughly approximate this is Hillside, just short of Bairnsdale.SSorry, not Hillside.
The line remains open for grain only.
Rodo
Chief Commissioner
Location: Southern Riverina
Jeparit perhaps ?
brownhillboy
Train Controller
Jeparit perhaps ?Not Hillside or Jeparit.
The line on which this station was situated has been truncated twice. There are two operating grain loading facilities beyond this point.
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