Lancefield - Kilmore
Line
closed on ????
Redesdale Junction - Redesdale
Line
closed on 29/06/1954
Last
train ran 28/06/1954
Carlsruhe - Daylesford
Line
closed on 03/07/1978
Last
Diesel Rail Car ran 23/09/1977
Last
Goods ran 02/05/1978
Last
Passenger Special A.R.E, 24/06/1978
Kooloonong - Yungera
Line
closed on 05/08/1957
Last
train ran 05/08/1957
Piangil - Kooloonong
Line
closed on ????
Kerang - Koondrook
Line
taken over by Victorian Railways 01/02/1952
Line
closed on ????
I have
two rough dates for the closure date. One of late 1978 and one mentioning
that the last train ran around 1980.
Last
passenger train 17/12/1976
Last
goods ran ????
Kerang - Murrabit - Stony
Crossing
Murrabit
- Stony Crossing services suspended in 1943
Kerang
- Murrabit services suspended 20/04/1961
Kerang
- Stony Crossing closed on 20/12/1961
Robinvale - ????
Line
closed ????
Heathcote - Freezing Company's
Siding (Nth Bendigo)
Line
closed on 03/12/1958
Last
train ran 03/12/1958
Heathcote Junction - Heathcote
Line
closed on 07/11/1968
Last
train ran 06/11/1968
Newlyn - Daylesford
Line
closed on 28/07/1953
Last
train ran 27/07/1953
Last
car goods ran 29/07/1952
Allendale - Newlyn
Line
closed on 01/12/1976
Last
train ran 30/11/1976
North Creswick - Allendale
Line
closed on ????
Diggora West - Cohuna
Line
closed on ????
Elmore - Diggora West
Line
closed on ????
Moulamein - Balranald
Line
closed on ????
Is the line from Moama to
Moulamein still open?
Wedderburn Junct - Wedderburn
Line
closed on ????
Avoca - Ararat
Line
closed on 08/07/1959
Line
re-opened on 29/10/1966
Waubra Junction - Waubra
Line
closed beyond Mileage 81 Mls., 50 Chs., 15 Lks., on 31/01/1968
Last
train ran 31/01/1968
Waubra
Junction to Ballarat Racecourse Platform closed on 14/04/1970
Last
train ran 19/03/1970
Meringur - Morkalla
Line
closed on 19/03/1964
Redcliffs - Meringur
Line
closed on ????
Nowingi -Gypsum Mine - Millewa
South
(Only completed to just
beyond Rocket Lake. The line from the Gypsum mine to Rocket Lake was never
used).
Line closed on ????
Panitya - Pinnaroo
Line
closed on ????
Eureka - Buninyong
Train
running discontinued on 01/03/1947
Ballarat - Eureka
Line
closed on ????
Linton Junction - Skipton
Line
closed on ????
Linton Junction - Reddan
Line
closed on ????
Lal Lal - Lal Lal Racecourse
Line
closed on 01/07/1940
Coleraine Junction - Coleraine
Line
closed on 12/09/1977
Last
passenger train (Mixed) 28/07/1952
Last
train ran 11/08/1977
Branxholme - Casterton
Line
closed on 12/09/1977
Last
passenger train (rail car) 31/07/1956
Last
train ran 18/07/1977
Heywood - Mt Gambier
Line
closed on ????
Portland North - Portland
Line
closed on 06/05/1968
Noradjuha - Hamilton
Line
closed on 30/06/1979
Last
passenger train (car goods) Balmoral - Hamilton 10/03/1955
Last
train ran Hamilton - Balmoral - Hamilton, mid 1978 when Brian Storer and
myself took a Y class and a few off register
RY's
& GY's to all the sidings between Cavendish and Balmoral (pity I didn't
write down the date).
East Natimuk - Noradjuha
Line
closed on ????
Lubeck - Bolangum
Line
closed on ????
Hopetoun - Patchewollock
Line
closed on ????
East Natimuk - Carpolac
Line
closed on ????
Horsham - East Natimuk
Line
closed on ????
Last
passenger Horsham - Goroke ran 19/04/1965
Jeparit - Yanac
Line
closed on ????
Ararat - Ballarat
Line
closed on ????
Vic Lime Co's Siding - Timboon
Line
closed on ????
Timboon Junction - Vic Lime
Co's Siding
Line
closed on ????
Terang - Mortlake
Line
closed on 01/08/1978
Last
train ran 29/07/1978
Moriac - Wensleydale
Line
closed on 12/10/1948
Birregurra - Forrest
Line
closed on 04/03/1957
Last
train ran 04/03/1957
Colac - Alive
Line
closed on ????
Last
train ran 18/12/1954
Weeaproinah - Crowes
Line
closed in Dec 1954
Colac - Beech Forest - Weeaproinah
Line
closed on 30/06/1962
Irrewarra - Cressy -Newtown
Line
closed on 18/11/1953
Last
passenger (car goods) ran 13/12/1948
Last
train ran 17/11/1953
Cheetham's Siding - Queenscliff
Line
closed on 06/11/1976
South Geelong - Cheetham's
Siding
Line
closed on ????
Koroit - Coleraine Junction
Line
closed on 12/09/1977
Dennington - Port fairy
Line
closed on 12/09/1977
Last
passenger train 10/09/1977
Last
goods train 10/05/1977
Stawell - Grampians
Mentioned
as closed beyond mileage 151 miles 42 chains in the 1953 General Appendix
Dunked - Penshurst
Services
discontinued in 24 March 1891 (seven months after opening with the final
certificate of completion signed on
17/08/1891).
Dismantled
Feb 1898
Ben Nevis - Navarre
Line
closed on ????
Nayook - Noojee
Line
closed on 27/03/1954
Warragul - Nayook
Line
closed on 01/10/1958
Last
train ran 30/09/1958
Moe - Thorpdale
Line
closed on 04/12/1958
Last
train ran 03/12/1958
Herne's Oak - Yallourn
Line
closed on 31/03/1957
Last
train ran 30/03/1957
Korumburra - Jumbunna
Line
closed on 30/09/1953
Last
train ran 28/09/1953
Bayles - Yannathan
Line
closed on 05/02/1950
Last
train ran 12/04/1950
Triholm - Strzelecki
Line
closed on 22/11/1930
Yannathan - Triholm
Line
closed on 07/08/1941
Bayles - Yannathan
Line
closed on 15/04/1950
Koo-Wee-Rup - Bayles
Line
closed on 05/02/1959
Last
train ran 04/02/1959
Platina - Walhalla
Line
closed on 01/04/1944
Erica - Platina
Line
closed on 01/10/1952
Moe - Erica
Line
closed on 25/06/1954
Last
train ran 24/06/1954
Maffra - Briagolong
Line
closed on 21/10/1952
Alberton - Port Albert
Line
closed on 14/02/1949
Last
train ran 12/02/1949
Yarram - Woodside
Line
closed on 26/05/1953
Last
train ran 25/05/1953
Morwell - Mirboo North
Line
closed on 24/06/1974
Last
train ran 18/06/1974
Nyora - Wonthaggi
Line
closed on 21/11/1977
Last
train ran 08/11/1977
Taralgon - Maffra
Line
closed on ????
Maffra - Stradford Junction
Line
closed on ????
Bairnsdale - Orbost
Line
closed on ????
Welshpool - Yarram
Line
closed on ????
It must
have been closed prior to 10/03/1988 as I ran a rail recovery train out
to MP 210 (near Alberton) on that date.
Leongatha - Welshpool
Line
closed on ????
Is the line Cranbourne - Leongatha closed?
Is the line Sale - Bairnsdale closed?
Moe - Yallourn
Line
closed on ????
Tallarook - Mansfield &
Cathkin - Alexandra
Line
closed on 08/11/1978
Last
train to Alexandra ran 01/02/1978
Last
train to Mansfield ran 03/02/1978
Springhurst - Wahgunyah
Line
closed ????
Benalla - Tatong
Line
closed on 01/07/1947
Wangaratta - Whitfield
Line
closed on 12/10/1953
Bowser - Peechelba East
Line
closed on ????
Myrtleford - Bright
Line
closed on ????
Bowser - Myrtleford
Line
closed on ????
Beechworth - Yackandandah
Line
closed on 02/07/1954
Last
train ran 01/07/1954
Everton - Beechworth
Line
closed on 30/12/1976
Bandiana - Cudgewa
Line
closed on 01/03/1981
Stanhope - Girgarre
Line
closed on 01/03/1975
Murchison East - Colbinabbin
- Stanthope
Line
closed on ????
Dookie - Katamatite
Line
closed on ????
Numurkah - Picola
Line
closed on ????
Lalor - Whittlesea
Line
closed on 29/11/1959
Lalor
- Epping Re-opened ????
Upper Ferntree Gully - Gembrook
Line
closed ????
Upper
Ferntree Gully - Belgrave re-opened ????
Wasn't the line between Strathmerton and Tocumwal closed for a while before re-opening.
Suburban line closures that I don't have dates for:
Bittern - Red Hill
Baxter - Mornington
Macleod - Mount Park
Hughesdale - Alamein (outer
circle)
East Camberwell - Fairfield
(outer circle)
Hughesdale - Elsternwick
Elsternwick - St Kilda
Hawthorne - Kew
North Fitzroy - Merri (inner
circle)
Royal Park - North Fitzroy
(inner circle)
Flinders St - Port Melbourne
Flinders St - St Kilda
Coldstream - Healsville
Lillydale - Coldstream
Lillydale - Warburton
Springvale - Springvale
Cemetery
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Gavin Potter.
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