Kensington Station (KEN)

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New Photos - A79 - Kensington Grain Sidings

	4.7 km to Melb.
	10min direct to FSS
	no allocated spaces
	connecting services -
POTS Location Tags

 

1-11-1860	Opened
1-7-1864	Closed
9-10-1871	Reopened
16-3-1914	Goods arrival and departure lines opened.
30-10-1918	overhead live to Essendon
14-8-1923	siding 'F' removed
14-10-1923	Pass lines over bridge (flyover near north Melbourne) but not in use (BMS Suburban lines)
22-1-1924	Overhead live on high level lines (now called Broadmeadows Suburban)
1-4-1924	Three position signalling to North Melbourne (BMS lines)
25-2-1965	manual control Boom gates at Macaulay road
15-8-78	Essendon Suburban Line renamed Broadmeadows Suburban lines
10-3-1982	overhead live on good lines
12-9-86	overhead removed on goods lines
28-10-1986	Goods lines no longer in use (BMS lines slewed at flyover at Llyod Street) points at Kensington removed later.

Kensington at it's height - click for enlargement (164KB)

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Kensington Up	MVM 2 -	018 1192
Kensington Down	MVM 1 -	017 1112

Courtesy Rob O'Regan
Legend: MVM 1 = Small machine, MVM 2 = Large machine, BOM = Booking Office machine.

Link to Chris Gordon's website for this information...
Kensington Signalling

Kensington Signal Box hours...

Monday - Saturday	Continuously
Sunday	0000-0020 and 0740 to 2400
(In other words 24 hrs except 0020-0740 Sundays)

The "Goodman & Fielder Siding"

    As can be seen in the photos, there is a siding for grain to be delivered to the silos on the east side of the main line.  This siding is known as the "Goodman & Fielder Siding", Regular visitors to this siding are P19, 20,21, 22, & 23, and the occasional T class usually with anything from 2 -14 hoppers. more information...

T400 - Kensington Grain Sidings - 05/04/2000
courtesy Chris Gordon

A79 + P20 - Kensington Grain Sidings 
Tuesday November 16, 1999 - courtesy Chris Gordon

Kensington Station
- photos by Steven Hurst

	Looking North toward the station building from the street
	Looking northward at the station and signal box, with a train in the platform.

Kensington Grain Sidings and Yard
- photos by Steven Hurst

	This disused signal is becoming overgrown by a palm, it used to serve the goods holding sidings.  Now only 2 tracks lead back over the Footscray line to the North Melbourne Yard.  The grain hoppers are shunted back over here on there way back to the yards.  - ??/7/99
	The view South toward the yards from near the signal box. ??/7/99
	P19 sits 'dead' in the sidings as a Bayside Comeng set approaches in the background.  The loco will wait until the hoppers are unloaded and then take them back to Tottenham yard later in the day. (??/8/99)

 

Crossing Works (April / May 1999) - courtesy Chris Gordon

 

Signal Box - Inside and Out - courtesy Chris Gordon

Grain Sidings/Yard - courtesy Chris Gordon