Re: Old rail line near Foster Victoria

[bantrade@alphalink.com.au (Alleyn Boucher)]

If you drive from Korumburra to Wonthaggi there is for a good portion
of the way the remains of a line. Which one was this? TIA
Alleyn Boucher
On Tue, 15 Dec 1998 21:22:06 +1100, David Langley <del@ancc.com.au>
wrote:

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>> Twocan wrote in message <913536595.667427@mail.1earth.net>...
>> >Recently driving between Sale and Foster I saw the remains of a rail line.
>> >Has anyone got info as to when this was built and when it was last used
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>Great Southern Jcn (near Dandenong) - Tooradin opened 1-10-1888
>Tooradin - Loch opened 11-11-1890
>Loch - Korumburra opened 2-6-1891  Korumburra - Leongatha opened 17-12-1891
>Leongatha - Port Albert (not Alberton) opened 13-1-1892. (Alberton-Port Albert
>closed 14-2-1949), the rest closed 30-6-1992 to Barry Beach Jcn, 5-6-1990 to
>Welshpool and 26-10-1987 to Alberton. Alberton - Yarram opened 8-2-1921, closed
>26-10-1987,
>Yarram - Won Wron opened 16-12-1921, closed 26-5-1953,
>Won Wron - Woodside opened 22-6-1923, closed 26-5-1953.
>The Barry Beach line was in use  from 2-4-1969 til 30-6-1992.
>There were other branch lines to Strzelecki, Wonthaggi & various coal mines,
>Outtrim & Coal Creek area including Strezlecki (note the different spelling)
>and Port Welshpool (ng horse drawn tramway).
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>An Australian atlas of railway lines is proposed for publishing in the near
>future and a team of people from the various states have been compiling a lot
>of data for it. Many previously accepted dates of opening and closing have been
>proved a little incorrect and it is hoped that research for this atlas will get
>it right, or more so than before.
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>David Langley.
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