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Good Morning Lilydale !

Lilydale Railway Station, 1907
Yarra Ranges Regional Museum
ww1.yrrmuseumcollection.com/Presto/search/…
Train from either Warburton or Healesville is arriving.
Lilydale opened 1882, Healesville 1889, Warburton 1901.
vrhistory.com/VRMaps/Vic1920…
Lilydale station had refreshment rooms from 1914.
Railway Station, Lilydale, 1910
Yarra Ranges Regional Museum
ww1.yrrmuseumcollection.com/Presto/search/…
Lilydale 1919.
victorianrailways.net/signaling/comp…
This image is of the first official passenger train from Lilydale to Warburton on 13 November 1901
Yarra Ranges Regional Museum
ww1.yrrmuseumcollection.com/Presto/search/…
Loco is a 4-6-0 S class built Phoenix Ballarat 1883
View from Signal Box, Lilydale, 1914
Yarra Ranges Regional Museum
ww1.yrrmuseumcollection.com/Presto/search/…
Loco is a 2-8-0 V class (simple expansion). Pattern engine built Baldwin 1900, others Phoenix Ballarat 1901-2. Originally built as compounds converted to simple 1912-13.
Signal Box, Lilydale Station, 1914
Yarra Ranges Regional Museum
ww1.yrrmuseumcollection.com/Presto/search/…
Healesville and Yarra Glen Guardian Sat 28 Nov 1925
Page 4

LILYDALE RAILWAY ELECTRIFICATION.
trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/arti…
Sparked 1925!
FIRST ELECTRIC TRAIN AT LILYDALE 1925
metadata.prov.vic.gov.au/imagefiles/128…
Refreshments!
Love this photograph ...
FIRST ELECTRIC TRAIN AT LILYDALE 1925
metadata.prov.vic.gov.au/imagefiles/128…
No doubt an exciting time!
TWO WALKER DIESEL RAIL MOTORS 153 HP AT LILYDALE STATION 24.11.64
metadata.prov.vic.gov.au/imagefiles/128…
Healesville and Warburton rail motors. Behind the DRCs appears to be a parcel van.
Y CLASS DIESEL LOCOMOTIVE No.101 HAULING WARBURTON FREIGHT AT LILYDALE STATION. SHOWING WATER TANK AND SIGNAL BOX IN FOREGROUND
metadata.prov.vic.gov.au/imagefiles/128…
Note dated. ? c. 1960s.
7 CARRIAGE BLUE HARRIS TRAIN SUBURBAN, LILYDALE 11TH MAY 1956
metadata.prov.vic.gov.au/imagefiles/128…
LILYDALE STATION PLATFORM WITH WALKER DIESEL RAIL CARS 153HP (DRC) 26.11.64
metadata.prov.vic.gov.au/imagefiles/128…
LILYDALE RAILWAY STATION D2 CLASS STEAM LOCOMOTIVE No.702 ARRIVING
metadata.prov.vic.gov.au/imagefiles/128…
D2 class was established 1922 by splitting of DD into D1 and D2. So photograph dates from 1922.
Lilydale Railway Station
Yarra Ranges Regional Museum
ww1.yrrmuseumcollection.com/Presto/search/…
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The Lilydale railway station refreshment room is historically significant as an intact example of a type of railway infrastructure that was once an everyday experience for train travellers in Victoria.
vhd.heritagecouncil.vic.gov.au/places/12647
Lilydale VRI bar and museum
vri.org.au/clubs/lilydale
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researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/H…
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