Re: Suggestions for a better Melbourne

["John Wayman" <trecker@bigpond.com>]

THE Boss! <daproc@spambait.umpires.com> wrote in message
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> David McLoughlin wrote in message <377827D3.F11@REMOVEiprolink.co.nz>...
>
> >When did the electric line reach Belgrave? It always ran there during my
> >lifetime. We lived in Box Hill when I was a kid, and I often caught the
> >train to Belgrave to go on Puffing Billy.
>
> Sometime in the 50's, after the narrow gauge line was closed at Landslide.
> Not sure of the exact date though.
>
> DaveP
>
The narrow gauge line from Upper Ferntree Gully to Belgrave closed in Feb
1958.

The broad gauge to Belgrave opened in 1962, just before the Puffing Billy
preservation Society reopened Belgrave to Menzies Creek in July 1962.

Cheers
John Wayman