Thread by @ozbob13

Spring Vale Cemetery railway branched from the Dandenong line just past (down) Spring Vale station. Was ~ 1.2 miles (1.9 km) in length. Opened 1904 closed officially 1951. Sparked 1922.
Spring Vale was changed to Springvale 1955.

1930 network diagram
vrhistory.com/VRMaps/Vic1930…

Plan of the line
victorianrailways.net/signaling/comp…
The loop at the Cemetery was not built.

Diagram of the Spring Vale Cemetery station.
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The 1939 suburban timetable showed one return
trip being made on Sundays.

Four car electric train, Tait cars, at Springvale Cemetery platform, 1938
Buckland Collection
nla.gov.au/nla.obj-155000…

Springvale Cemetery Railway Station site 2012.
Commemorative plaque along Fourth Drive indicating site of former station. A strip of gum trees along the southern side of Fourth Drive indicates former station site and rail reserve in the area.
flickr.com/photos/8679213…

In June 1952 the line was dismantled. The Sandown Park racecourse and raceway now occupies part of the right
of way. A short section survived as a siding that branched off at the down end of the down line at Springvale.
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Part of the Spring Vale Cemetery line heading towards the highway.
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Springvale Rocla Siding Down ARE Special E 1111
Weston Langford 23 February 1974
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This was part of the Spring Vale Cemetery line

Hitachi set led by 118M terminates on the former cemetery siding at Springvale August 1991
Photo: Ian Green
vicsig.net/index.php?page…

Aerial view of the Spring Vale Cemetery railway 1945
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Close examination of the photograph suggests the railway crossed the highway on a bridge - rail over road.

Mortuary van no. 10J at the Flinders Street dock, Melbourne, 1939
nla.gov.au/nla.obj-155000…

Hearse van viewer.slv.vic.gov.au/?entity=IE4989… via @Library_Vic
c. 1920