Re: Second rate Melbourne stations

[David Langley <del@ancc.com.au>]

Yuri J Sos/Melbourne AUS wrote:

> On 28 Apr 1999 07:31:31 GMT, markbau1@aol.comQQQQyuk (MarkBau1) wrote,
> and I selectively quote:
>
> >White City was closed  much earlier. My guess would be approx 1978. Of course I
> >have no way of knowing how long it stood unused before the bulldozers moved in.
> >But I seem to remember it getting bulldozed around 78 or 79.
>
> I suspect it went about the time Tottenham station went up hill.  I
> started working in Sunshine in '74, and would occasionally be on a
> train that stopped at White City.  The factory it served was Olympic
> Tyres, now Olex Cables - they make fibre optic cable there.

Closed 4 Oct 1981. Tottenham (upper) opened 24 Mar 1981 (up line), 27 Jul 1982 (down
line).

> Anyone know where the greyhound course was?

On the Olympic Tyres site I believe.

David Langley.