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Good Morning Dandenong!

Dandenong opened Oct 1887. Station buildings rebuilt in 1975 and again in 1995. Dandenong was an original station on the south Gippsland railway and the railway to Sale.

DANDENONG RAIL STATION ABOUT 1899
metadata.prov.vic.gov.au/imagefiles/128…
DANDENONG RAIL STATION DATE UNKNOWN - Public Record Office Victoria wiki.prov.vic.gov.au/index.php/VPRS…
early 1900s ?
Dandenong 1929
victorianrailways.net/signaling/comp…
Dandenong loco had an odd location. Now part of the station entry for buses and shops etc. across the road.
D2 CLASS STEAM LOCOMOTIVE No.596 COMING ONTO TURNTABLE AT DANDENONG LOCOMOTIVE SHED CIRCA 1955
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Dandenong Steam Turntable, undated photo
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D2 593 renumbered 1951 so date would be > c. 1951s
Amazing quality photograph.
Dandenong Train Station c. 1975
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Looking across some of the old station buildings towards the Southern Aurora hotel.
L CLASS ELECTRIC LOCOMOTIVE No.1150 AT SUBSTATION EAST DANDENONG
metadata.prov.vic.gov.au/imagefiles/128…
c. 1953 very new L 1150
B CLASS DIESEL LOCOMOTIVE No.60 RECORD LOAD DANDENONG 1ST SEPTEMBER 1953
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Paul Keating opens the new Dandenong Railway Station, Victoria, March 1995
Andrew Chapman
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Transport interchange at Dandenong Station
2014
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Buses at Dandenong station.
R Dow 2015
General Motors railway station located between Dandenong and Hallam station, as it was 2008.
Opened as 'special platform' on 1 October 1956 to service the General Motors Holden factory.
Additional platform and crossover added in 1975. Closed 2002.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_M…
General Motors Station, 1957
olddandenong.blogspot.com/2017/07/genera…
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Good Morning Windsor (Vic) !

Located on the Sandringham line. The original station opened 19 Dec 1859 as Chapel Street, was renamed Windsor 1 Jan 1867.

Building the Windsor Station c. 1886
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Present station was built from 1885 ( images.heritage.vic.gov.au/attachment/6663) Image
Original terminus for trains on Brighton Beach line, which was built in 1859 & operated by the St Kilda & Brighton Railway Co. and who built the loop branch line to St Kilda connecting the Brighton line to the Melb to St Kilda line, which opened in 1857.
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Loop line crossing over St. Kilda Road just north of Union Street. A similar bridge crossed Hoddle Street, later being renamed Punt Road. Same locoation in 2015.
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Good Morning Williamstown!

Williamstown opened in 1859. The line to Williamstown pier was in use from 1857, Williamstown Pier station was open in 1905. Williamstown Beach was originally called Beach, name changed 1915.

Early Map. c. 1915?

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VR's first workshop was in the Williamstown area. Located near the end of the line & opposite the Alfred dock. [ Argus Sat 4 Aug 1877 Page 9 trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/arti… ]

WORKSHOPS WILLIAMSTOWN O CLASS STEAM LOCO AND L CLASS STEAM LOCOS INCLUDING No.20
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Williamstown 1946
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Maryborough station was completed in 1890. Mark Twain observed in 1895 that Maryborough was "A railway station with a town attached".
A very grand station indeed.

Railway Station, Maryborough , 1901
nla.gov.au/nla.obj-146708…
Maryborough was a junction for 4 lines:
N. Dunolly and Mildura.
S. Ballarat
E. Castlemaine
W. Ararat
vrhistory.com/VRMaps/Vic1930…
Maryborough fist opened in 1874.
As befits a major junction station the track layout at Maryborough was complex.

Maryborough 1934
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