Good Morning Bolangum!
The Bolangum branch opened in stages:
Lubeck - Rupanyup1887
Rupanyup - Marnoo 1909
Marnoo - Bolangum 1927
Closed Lubeck - Bolangum 1983
Wheat was the main produce transported on the line.
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1928 timetable for Marnoo and Bolangum.
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The junction for the line was Lubeck.
Lubeck was on the Serviceton line.
Lubeck layout 1924.
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The Horsham Times Fri 17 Mar 1933 Page 4
WHEAT STACKS AT RAILWAY STATIONS
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Wheat was bagged, silos arrived in the 1940s.
Bolangum 28,288 bags. Marnoo 52,396. Banyena 39,473.
T 406 shunts a lengthy goods at Rupanyup on the Lubeck to Bolangum branchline. Jan 5 1971
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The train prepares to set out empties at Banyena.
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Bolangum bound goods train at Marnoo, 1961
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Loading wheat bags Marnoo
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RTA tour train leaving Bolangum on 22 November 1980
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Rupanyup Up Goods N 473
Weston Langford 24 January 1962
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Rupanyup Looking down from Station area
Weston Langford 24 January 1962
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The former Rupanyup Railway Station c1890, was constructed by Sutcliffe & Hartley on the Lubec-Bolangum line Single storey Gothic-style brick station building with a slate hip and gabled-roof. 2008
Victorian Heritage Database Report
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End of the line at Bolangum
Rupanyup and District Historical Society 2015
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