Re: rail sitings Adelaide to Anglesea

[Chris Brownbill <cbrnbill@enternet.com.au>]

Or just possibly you might have seen remnants of the Penshurst to Dunkeld line
which closed much much earlier - like about the 1880's I think, and IIRC only
about one train ever ran over it!

Gavin Potter wrote:
> 
> "Arthur Marsh" <marsh@ties.itu.ch> wrote in message
> 396a8358$1_2@news.chariot.net.au">news:396a8358$1_2@news.chariot.net.au...
> > Last weekend I made a quick road trip to Anglesea, and wondered if anyone
> > could fill me in on when railway lines ran to Coleraine and Penshurst (and
> > via what route), as I noticed some embankments and platform formations
> that
> > looked like track may have been lifted 30 or more years ago.
> 
> The lines were closed in late 1977. Hamilton - Penshurst - Warrnambool was
> closed on 12/9/77 (last through train ran 7/2/77) and Hamilton Coleraine
> closed on the same day (last train 11/8/77)
> 
>  The Coleraine and Penshurst lines departed from a place known as Coleraine
> Junction which was about a kilometer south of Hamilton.
> 
> >
> > Arthur (now at arthur.marsh@cg.dircsa.org.au - please ignore the address
> in
> > the header as it was taken away from me without warning by instruction of
> > denis.eisenbise@aca.gov.au).
> >
> >
> 
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