Re: Reopened stations

[Eddie Oliver <eoliver@efs.mq.edu.au>]

Roderick Smith wrote:
> 
> I knew that my brief posting would be questioned.
> 
> Coburg - Somerton was closed in 1903,
> along with intermediate stations North Coburg [Merlynston, which I should
> have included], Fawkner and Campbellfield [which I should not have prefixed
> North].
> The line was reopened in 1906 to Fawkner.
> The line was reopened in 1928 to Somerton.
> Service north of Fawkner was suspended in 1956.
> The line north of Fawkner was electrified to a new station at Upfield in
> 1959.
> 
> The best reference is Jungwirth & Lambert 'Weekly notice extracts
> 18894-1994', no home library should be without one.

The history of the Upfield line is most comprehensively covered by
Andrew Waugh in Somersault, the journal of the Signalling Record
Society; his efforts form one of the most comprehensive railway
histories ever written in Australia.