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      Djebel Chief Train Controller

    Well Faredodger, you should be a little more confident -- the answer is indeed Platina.  I too found the conflicting sources about whether Evans Brothers Siding was a siding at Platina, or slightly further down the line.

    Whatever the case with Evans Brothers, Platina was opened as Copper Mine Siding, before being renamed Platina.  It was used by the Gippsland Copper & Platinum Company.

    Take it away, Faredodger.
    Posted: 04 Jul 2022 07:50

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      Faredodger Chief Commissioner

    Location: Hiding anywhere the ticket inspectors can't see me
    Thank you, Djebel.  If Evans Bros. Siding was further up or down the line, I'm puzzled as to where it could have been, as I've walked the route of the line between O'Shea and Bennett's Siding and Thomson, and I couldn't identify any other place where the topography would have allowed the placement of another siding or given access to it.  Perhaps there was a ramp, and they used parachutes or flying foxes to get to it.

    Now, another teaser - hmmm...

    An open station on an open line, still with a passenger service.  Haver a couple of goes at this, and I'll provide some more clues.
    Posted: 05 Jul 2022 00:20
      Djebel Chief Train Controller

    Thank you, Djebel.  If Evans Bros. Siding was further up or down the line, I'm puzzled as to where it could have been, as I've walked the route of the line between O'Shea and Bennett's Siding and Thomson, and I couldn't identify any other place where the topography would have allowed the placement of another siding or given access to it.  Perhaps there was a ramp, and they used parachutes or flying foxes to get to it.
    Faredodger
    According to Vicsig, Evans Brothers Siding was a whopping 12 metres on the down side of Platina Laughing.  I think  the weird track layout contributes to the ambiguity.
    Posted: 05 Jul 2022 01:18

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      railblogger Chief Commissioner

    Location: At the back of the train, quitely doing exactly what you'd expect.
    Thank you, Djebel.  If Evans Bros. Siding was further up or down the line, I'm puzzled as to where it could have been, as I've walked the route of the line between O'Shea and Bennett's Siding and Thomson, and I couldn't identify any other place where the topography would have allowed the placement of another siding or given access to it.  Perhaps there was a ramp, and they used parachutes or flying foxes to get to it.

    Now, another teaser - hmmm...

    An open station on an open line, still with a passenger service.  Haver a couple of goes at this, and I'll provide some more clues.
    Faredodger
    Bendigo?
    Posted: 05 Jul 2022 01:35
      Valvegear Oliver Bullied, CME

    Location: Banned
    Hm; twirls moustache and thinks, "Moe".
    Posted: 05 Jul 2022 09:14
      Faredodger Chief Commissioner

    Location: Hiding anywhere the ticket inspectors can't see me
    Did you mean Platina rather than Picola, Djebel?  Yes, I think you may be right about the weird track layout's contributing to the ambiguity (and no doubt to running around then the place was a terminus).  The distance is 60 links, so probably within the Platina yard.  (Ted Downes' description suggested to me that it was on the up side.)

    Interestingly, there is another entry in Vicsig that could lead one on a wild goose chase.  If you google "Evans Brothers Siding" the entry is a siding 60 links on down side of Platina; but if you google "Evans Bros Siding" the entry is a siding 200 yards beyond Echuca Wharf!  Apparently there was a sawmill there.  I wonder whether they were the same Evans brothers.  (But they certainly owned a sawmill at Barmah, about 5 miles from Picola, not Platina, and moved to Echuca in 1924, where they owned a paddle-steamer as well as a sawmill.)

    On the latest teaser, the answer is neither Bendigo nor Moe (good one, Valvegear, but don't give me any lip!).  And my apologies, "haver" in my earlier post is meant to read, "have".  I'll have to remove that one and store it in my haversack.
    Posted: 05 Jul 2022 11:56
      Djebel Chief Train Controller

    Did you mean Platina rather than Picola, Djebel?  Yes, I think you may be right about the weird track layout's contributing to the ambiguity (and no doubt to running around then the place was a terminus).  The distance is 60 links, so probably within the Platina yard.  (Ted Downes' description suggested to me that it was on the up side.)

    Interestingly, there is another entry in Vicsig that could lead one on a wild goose chase.  If you google "Evans Brothers Siding" the entry is a siding 60 links on down side of Platina; but if you google "Evans Bros Siding" the entry is a siding 200 yards beyond Echuca Wharf!  Apparently there was a sawmill there.  I wonder whether they were the same Evans brothers.  (But they certainly owned a sawmill at Barmah, about 5 miles from Picola, not Platina, and moved to Echuca in 1924, where they owned a paddle-steamer as well as a sawmill.)

    On the latest teaser, the answer is neither Bendigo nor Moe (good one, Valvegear, but don't give me any lip!).  And my apologies, "haver" in my earlier post is meant to read, "have".  I'll have to remove that one and store it in my haversack.
    Faredodger
    You're right, I did mean Platina Embarassed.  Fixededed it now.

    I'll guess....Shepparton.
    Posted: 05 Jul 2022 12:12
      Faredodger Chief Commissioner

    Location: Hiding anywhere the ticket inspectors can't see me
    Not Shepparton
    Posted: 05 Jul 2022 12:20
      hbedriver Deputy Commissioner

    Maldon
    Posted: 05 Jul 2022 13:30
      duttonbay Minister for Railways

    Horsham?
    Posted: 05 Jul 2022 14:54
      Faredodger Chief Commissioner

    Location: Hiding anywhere the ticket inspectors can't see me
    Not Maldon or Horsham.

    Further clue:  it underwent a change of name early in its life.
    Posted: 05 Jul 2022 15:10
      hbedriver Deputy Commissioner

    That’s easy then; Yarragon (formerly Waterloo. Keeping the Lord Nelson theme, the next station is Trafalgar, and the brake mark for a down train approaching Yarragon is the 111 km post)
    Posted: 05 Jul 2022 15:32
      Faredodger Chief Commissioner

    Location: Hiding anywhere the ticket inspectors can't see me
    Clever, but not so easy.  It isn't Yarragon.

    If Shep were alive he'd be doing his little hop at that.
    Posted: 05 Jul 2022 15:35
      RustyRick Chief Commissioner

    Location: South West Vic
    Sandhurst/Bendigo?

    I haven't had enough coffee to be witty...
    Posted: 06 Jul 2022 08:45

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      Faredodger Chief Commissioner

    Location: Hiding anywhere the ticket inspectors can't see me
    It wasn't Bendigo yesterday, and it still isn't.

    Have another coffee.
    Posted: 06 Jul 2022 10:28
      RustyRick Chief Commissioner

    Location: South West Vic
    Oh, bloody hell...

    Riddells Creek/Riddell/Riddells Creek
    Posted: 06 Jul 2022 10:55
      Faredodger Chief Commissioner

    Location: Hiding anywhere the ticket inspectors can't see me
    Not Riddells Creek/Riddell/Riddells Creek.

    Further clue:  Like several of the stations already guessed, it was once a junction, but is one no longer.
    Posted: 06 Jul 2022 11:05

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      tubbsa Beginner

    Lancefield Junction now Clarkefield
    Posted: 06 Jul 2022 11:14
      Djebel Chief Train Controller

    Warrigal/Warragul.
    Posted: 06 Jul 2022 11:21
      Valvegear Oliver Bullied, CME

    Location: Banned
    Springhurst; formerly Springs and junction of the Wahgunya line.
    Posted: 06 Jul 2022 13:53
      kitchgp Chief Commissioner

    Platina:
    http://www.members.optusnet.com.au/~narrow.gauge/plat.htm

    (from Bill Russell’s excellent Victorian Government Narrow Gauge Railways on Optus:
    http://www.members.optusnet.com.au/~narrow.gauge/index.htm)
    Posted: 06 Jul 2022 17:13
      Faredodger Chief Commissioner

    Location: Hiding anywhere the ticket inspectors can't see me
    A big thank-you to kitchgp for that excellent information on Platina.  Brilliant!

    In relation to the current teaser, some excellent answers; but it is not Bendigo, Moe, Shepparton, Maldon, Horsham, Yarragon, Riddells Creek, Clarkefield, Springhurst nor Warragul.
    Posted: 06 Jul 2022 17:48
      Valvegear Oliver Bullied, CME

    Location: Banned
    Heathcote Junction; formerly Kilmore Junction and junction of the line to (drum roll) Heathcote.
    Posted: 06 Jul 2022 18:54
      Faredodger Chief Commissioner

    Location: Hiding anywhere the ticket inspectors can't see me
    And a crossing loop called Summit occupied the site before that.  Very good guess, but the answer isn't Heathcote Junction.
    Posted: 07 Jul 2022 08:53
      Valvegear Oliver Bullied, CME

    Location: Banned
    Oh 'ell more to think about. . . . Elmore, formerly Runnymede and junction of the Cohuna line.
    Posted: 07 Jul 2022 11:08

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