Re: Beech Forest today

[david <david@nmit.vic.edu.au>]

Thankyou John, I'm thinking of going down there next Saturday, weather permitting,
digital camera in hand !

Regards,
David Head


John Cleverdon wrote:

>
> We visited the site (along with other railways in the Otways) in 1993.
> At that stage, there was not too much left of the station site (that I
> remember).
> The platform mound is still there in my photo, along with a little bit of the
> edging (I don't have the time to look through all of Dad's photos :-).
>
> The tennis court in the centre of the balloon loop was disused (IIRC); a *rough*
> guess of the radius would be perhaps 10-15m at most.
>
> A useful source of information would be the book "The Beechy" by Norm Houghton.
>
> We stayed at the hotel-motel which was adjacent to the station; the hotel (the
> only one in town) burnt down a year or two back.
>
> John
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