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Re: [Vic] Alamein Line



If you visit the Club house at the East Malvern golf course there are lots
of nice aerial photos of the area hung on the walls. The photos include
things like the Black Bridge and a single car electric standing at East
Malvern station.

Cheers
John Wayman

Mark Cauchi <mark.cauchi@med.monash.edu.au> wrote in message
news:38F1818A.57F7@med.monash.edu.au...
> andrei wrote:
> >
> > You didn't answer the question.  Must have been a bridge.  (Probably
wooden
> > trestle, that's why it's no longer there. I think line was closed last
> > century, so 100 years has seen the bridge go.  Also, line ran to
Hughesdale,
>
> The bridge was still in place in the mid 1940's but was eventually
> removed to allow for the development of the East Malvern Golf Course.
> If you search through the prolific growth of Gorze bushes on the
> northern embankment above the course, you can still find 6 or 7
> truncated bridge piles.
>
> Mark Cauchi