Re: VR line closing dates needed.

[desktop@pipeline.com.au (Frank Jones)]

On Wed, 31 Mar 1999 16:43:01 +1000, Gavin Potter
<gavpot@ozemail.com.au> wrote:

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>MarkBau1 wrote:
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>> Just wondering if anyone could help me with a few more VR line  dates?
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>> Kerang to Stony Crossing,
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>Kerang - Murrabit - Stony Crossing:
>Service on the line from Murabit to Stony Crossing suspended in 1943
>Service on the line from Kerang to Murrabit suspended 20 April 1961.
>The line Kerang to Stony Crossing permanently closed to all traffic 20 Dec 1961
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>(Secty's 61/4336)
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IIRC, closed following the collapse of the Barr Creek trestle under
the weight of a J class hauled goods.


>> Red Cliffs to Meringur,
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>Im not sure, but it was around 1988 or 1989
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Not sure either, but I think it was in December 1986, one of a number
of lines to be officially closed on the one day - about the 8th.


>> Avoca to Ararat BG reopening date, (after it was closed the first time)
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>Avoca to Ararat. Closed 8 July 1959 (Sec's 59/4995)
>Re-opened 29 Oct 1966 (Sec's 65/143)

There was a photo of a re-construction train in VR Newsletter.

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>> Was there ever a line from Robinvale to Koorakee and Lette. The VR 1946 map
>> shows it but VR to 62 does not mention it?
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>I know that there was a line up there, but my earlier (1979) W.T.T. does not
>mention this line. I have seen a date somewhere and will look through some of
>my other W.T.T.
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Definitely was laid, but not all the way to Lette. I once went over
the Murray River bridge between Robinvale - Euston but I can't
remember whether rails were still in situ as they are/were at the
Murrabit bridge.

I think I read somewhere that Korakee only ever had one train - a
Commissioner's special.