Re: Boronia Rail Crossing

["Craig Dennis" <cjdennis@enternet.com.au>]

Christopher_Martin GORDON wrote in message
<713mh1$8rk$1@mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU>...
>Anyway, back to Melbourne, Boronia.
>
>The last train will run through the crossing at 8:30pm Friday, from then
>to the first train (4:50am) Wednesday morning thetrain line will be closed,
>buses etc..
>
>The old station (well not the bulidings) has been there with the level
crossing
>diagonally through the Boronia/Dorset Road intersection since 1889.
>
>Th line was doubled in the 50's and later the signal box and station
buildings
>removed.  Now the new station in a concrete cutting will open next
Wednesday.

The line may have been doubled at the platform but as I recall it was single
line working between Ringwood and Upper Ferntree Gully until sometime in the
early 70s. I don't recall a signal box but the old station building fell
victim to arson somewhere around 1969/1970.

Cheers