Re: Did anyone know?

["B." <gunzel412@dingoblue.gunzel.net.au>]

Michael Milway <mjm@uow.edu.au> wrote in message
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>> How far out do you count Melbourne, Healesville &
>> Mornington have been closed, (albeit then transferred to
>> tourist railways), and beyond Cranbourne.

> You cannot say that the Mornington line has been
> transferred to a tourist group (with the underlying
> assumption that it could be taken back). The right of way
> from the Nepean Highway to the old station site just does
> not exist anymore. It was sold for housing about 10 minutes
> after the line was closed to make sure that it could never
> be re-opened.  The station site is probably a shopping
> centre by now.

The line from the jct at Baxter through Moorooduc as far as IIRC
Tanti Park just outside Mornington is leased by the Mornington
Railway Preservation Society.

They run their pretty K class tea kettle on the Xth Sunday of each
Month, from Moorooduc, where their depot is, to Tanti Park.  At
least I think its Tanti Park, but I'm possibly out of date.

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