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21 Oct, 21 tweets, 10 min read
Good Morning Ballarat!
Ballarat station (as Ballarat West) opened April 1862 when railway from Geelong was completed. The train hall and north station buildings date from 1862 and the south building with its clock tower was added in 1889.

Looking SE
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Ballarat station 1875.
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Initial structures, added to 1889.
Ballarat Railway Station circa 1890
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The direct line to Melbourne opened 1889.
Rail network 1947
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Ballarat top centre square 64
Ballarat - Ballarat East signal track layout 1935
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Railway Station, Ballarat c. 1870
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Ballarat West Railway Station viewer.slv.vic.gov.au/?entity=IE7203… via @Library_Vic 1908
Amalgamation of the Ballarat East and West Town Councils in 1921 to form the City of Ballarat, Ballarat West became Ballarat.
Loco is R 193 (old) built Phoenix Ballarat c. 1886
"Opening Of Railway Communication - The First Train From Geelong 1862". Ballarat Station.
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The loco diagram looks like a L class. No tender. The L class tank engines were around from 1860.
Ballarat Railway Station view from Lydiard St. viewer.slv.vic.gov.au/?entity=IE40385 via @Library_Vic c. 1900s
15TH SEPTEMBER 1972 GATES LYDIARD STREET BALLARAT - Public Record Office Victoria wiki.prov.vic.gov.au/index.php/VPRS…
Ballarat trams ceased 1971.
Ballarat Railway Station Up No 34
Weston Langford 24 December 1962
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Railway workshops were established at Ballarat North in 1917.

Photograph of the Ballarat North Workshops c. 1930s.
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13th December 1981 a fire swept through the station master’s office, booking office, station tower interior and part of the foyer, causing about $500,000 damage. The damaged areas were later repaired.
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Ballarat North Workshops Shunter No 8 Crane
Weston Langford 20 August 1964
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Ballarat Up Overland Express S 300 S 303
Weston Langford 1 March 1965
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Ballarat A Signal Box Interior
Weston Langford 14 May 1992
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Ballarat January 2020
R Dow
On the 30th May 2020 a Vline VLocity went through Lydiard St railway crossing at a speed of 93 km/h out of control. Smashed the heritage listed gates. There is strong local support for restoration of the historic Lydiard Street railway gates
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Ballarat Tramway Museum looks at the Ballarat Victoria Railway Station precinct, the past and present using a series of photos and movie excerpts. Tramcars, both horse and electric passed through the level crossing from 1887 to 1971
Ballarat Station 150th anniversary 10 -15 April 2012
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23 Oct
Good Morning Flinders Street Station!
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Princes Bridge Station
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Spencer Street station established 1859, 5 years after the Melbourne Elizabeth Street (later Flinders Street) station 1854. Princes Bridge 1859. Direct connection between Flinders Street - Spencer Street 1875. Princes Bridge - Flinders Street 1865.
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20 Oct
Good Morning Bendigo!
Opened on 21 October 1862 as Sandhurst, name was changed in 1891 when city renamed Bendigo.
Railway workshops opened by VR at Bendigo in 1917.
Bendigo was a major railway centre.

Victorian railway map 1870
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Victorian railway map 1947
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19 Oct
VR 2-4-0ST saddle tank
Nos. 14 to 26 (even numbers) built 1860 George England & Co. London.
Nos. 28, 30, 32 built 1860 Slaughter Gruning Bristol.
Later classed as L.
In service 1861, last (no. 20) scrapped 1906.

L22 and others Spencer St early 1880s
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At 37⅜ tons they were the heaviest locomotives on the roster in the 1860s.

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VR 0-6-0 Beyer Peacock built 1859 in service 1860
Nos. 1 3 5 7 9 later known as P class.
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Rebuilt c. 1904
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