Re: Toorak Station

[John Dennis <jdennis@acslink.net.au>]

>>> At the Caulfield end of Platform 1 at Toorak is a tower structure
>>> that connects the platform and the road above. It is not in use.
>>> What is it?

>> It was a parcels/goods lift and connected the goods yard (where the
>> parcels office was) with the passenger station. Don't forget the
>> goods yard here was at street level. Parcels coaches from Dandenong
>> and Frankston would use the up through lines and clear parcels to
>> Melbourne for on forwarding..
>
>The yard was electrified and received timber and Briquetes, it could
>only be accessed from the Through Lines and the Down Dandenong Goods
>would alternate every other day, (not sure of the actual days of the
>week) one day it would run via the Local Lines and shunt at Malvern,
>the next day it would run via the Through lines and shunt Toorak.

You say the down Dandenong Roadside shunted Toorak yard.  I have ridden
in the van or cab of the up roadside from Oakleigh more than once and
shunted there.  Was that unusual, or a common occurrence?

Cheers...JD

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John Dennis
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