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Carpolac
Carpolac line was a line serving grain silos in Victoria's Wimmera district. Horsham to East Natimuk opened in August 1887. East Natimuk to Goroke opened in July 1894 and to Carpolac in May 1927.
vrhistory.com/VRMaps/Vic1930…

CARPOLAC STATION - Public Record Office Victoria wiki.prov.vic.gov.au/index.php/VPRS…

1928 timetable Mortat was the limit for passengers.
victorianrailways.net/timetables/192…

1954 timetable Goroke was the limit for passengers.
victorianrailways.net/timetables/195…

Carpolac looking Down from Up end Points
Weston Langford 25 September 1958
westonlangford.com/images/photo/1…

Carpolac D3 619 at end of track
Weston Langford 25 September 1958
westonlangford.com/images/photo/1…

Goroke
Down Home Signal to Carpolac Line (at right)
Weston Langford 25 September 1958
westonlangford.com/images/photo/1…

East Natimuk to Carpolac closed on 8 December 1986

Goroke 1986 - Freight shed and what was believed to be the former station building
stationspast.net/victoria/carpo…

Carpolac Freight shed, the last railway remains at Carpolac. 23/12/89
stationspast.net/victoria/carpo…

'When grain went by train'
Last train on the Natimuk-Carpolac line leaving Mitre on its way towards Natimuk in February 1986
mailtimes.com.au/story/962944/w…
"Up to 70 trains a week ran on the line to shift the 1968-69 harvest."

Goroke
Special train
facebook.com/Mortat-cemeter…

The rail motor at Goroke
facebook.com/Mortat-cemeter…
Must be holiday time!

Grade profile of the line
victorianrailways.net/grades/carpola…

The Wimmera River single-track railway bridge at Quantong is the surviving remnant of an earlier much longer eighty-seven span rail-over-river bridge built in 1887
vhd.heritage.vic.gov.au/places/result_…
Some bridge sections were converted to earth embankment in the years after World War 1.

DUFFHOLME 1971
wimmera-w-b-w.blogspot.com/2012/11/railwa…

Goroke 1967
wimmera-w-b-w.blogspot.com/2012/11/railwa…
J class

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