Re: Stopping all stations to...Kew?

["David E. Lindstrom" <D_Lindstrom@Bigpond.com>]

"Bill Bolton" <billboltonREMOVE-TO-EMAIL@computer.org> wrote in message
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> "Andrew J. Buntine" <jbuntine@deakin.edu.au> wrote:
>
> > I'm trying to do some research on Melbourne's old 'Outer Circle' line.
Can
> > anybody point me in the right direction?
>
> The "Outer Circle" route was completed in 1890 and broken at the
> Northern end when the Fairfield Park to Riversdale section closed in
> April 1893, with some parts being removed quite quickly.  At the
> Southern end, the Oakleigh to Ashburton section, which included
> Waverley Road closed at the end of 1895, with the section of the
> Burnley line from Waverley Road to Darling was also closing at the
> same time.  Finally the Camberwell to Ashburton section closed in May
> 1897.
>
> Trains did return to the Riversdale to East Kew section of the
> Northern end and to the Camberwell to Ashburton section, but the
> Southern section to Oakleigh was never reopened, though it was not
> dismantled until circa 1940.
>
> Today, the Camberwell to Alamein line is the only section of the Outer
> Circle remaining
>
> Cheers,
>
> Bill
>
I remember, as a child, correcting my grand-mother when she spoke of getting
out of the train at Kew station. I told her there was no such thing as Kew
station. She said, yes there was, it was the end of the line.
Regards,
David Lindstrom