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29 Oct, 19 tweets, 9 min read
Good Morning Cranbourne!
Cranbourne open Oct 1888, station on the South Gippsland line. Now the terminus of that line. Passenger trains ceased 1981, reinstated in 1984 until 1993. Dandenong to Cranbourne was sparked in 1995 and services returned.
victorianrailways.net/vr%20map/vrmap…
Cranbourne layout 1963
victorianrailways.net/signaling/comp…
There were also some sidings for sand workings about a mile south of the station. These were in use from 1920 to 1956.
Cranbourne station. c. 1920s
…eycardinialinkstoourpast.blogspot.com/2008/05/railwa…
Cranbourne station in 1961
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Down service. The water tower was removed in 1973.
CRANBOURNE, SOUTH GIPPSLAND HIGHWAY LEVEL CROSSING - Public Record Office Victoria wiki.prov.vic.gov.au/index.php/VPRS…
CRANBOURNE, SOUTH GIPPSLAND HIGHWAY LEVEL CROSSING, R CLASS STEAM LOCOMOTIVE DEPARTING LEFT SIDE INCLUDING DERM AND TRAILER - Public Record Office Victoria wiki.prov.vic.gov.au/index.php/VPRS…
Cranbourne Down Special Passenger R 737
Weston Langford 10 December 1961
westonlangford.com/images/photo/1…
Cranbourne Up Passenger from Yarram T 372
Weston Langford 3 December 1977
westonlangford.com/images/photo/1…
Down goods at Cranbourne 1970
reddit.com/r/MelbourneTra…
Cranbourne J Holland Shunting Tractor Looking towards Nyora
Weston Langford 27 April 1994
westonlangford.com/images/photo/1…
early works for the opening of suburban electric services
Cranbourne Looking towards Nyora
J Holland Tractor right and PTC Undercutter
Weston Langford 27 April 1994
westonlangford.com/images/photo/1…
First official electric service to Cranbourne
March 25, 1995
Waiting for the official train.
…eycardinialinkstoourpast.blogspot.com/search/label/C…
Cranbourne Suburban Hitachi
Weston Langford 25 April 1995
westonlangford.com/images/photo/1…
Cranbourne looking towards stabling sidings and Dandenong
Weston Langford 18 December 2008
westonlangford.com/images/photo/1…
Six train stabling sidings completed in November 2008.
As part of these works the station & bus interchange upgraded.
Cranbourne 2011 signalling and layout
vicsig.net/infrastructure…
Cranbourne Looking across the highway towards Clyde.
R Dow 2019.
There are hopes that the service will be extended to Cranbourne East / Clyde.
Cranbourne Line Upgrade
bigbuild.vic.gov.au/projects/cranb…
'The current single track from Dandenong to Cranbourne is being fully duplicated, paving the way for trains every ten minutes on the Cranbourne Line.' A number of LXs have been removed as well.
Look back from the highway crossing towards Dandenong.
R Dow 2019
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31 Oct
Good Morning Frankston!
Open 1882. Connection to the Stony Point, Red Hill (now closed) and Mornington (now closed) lines. Electrification to Frankston 1922. Frankston had a coal stage and a 70' turntable to service locos for branch line steam workings.
victorianrailways.net/vr%20map/vrmap… Image
Frankston diagram 1936
victorianrailways.net/signaling/comp…
Mordialloc - Frankston duplicated December 1910 Image
Railway Station, Frankston, Victoria - very early 1900s
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29 Oct
Hurstbridge.
Eltham - Hurst's Bridge open June 1912.
Renamed Hurstbridge Dec 1912.
Heidelberg - Eltham open June 1902
vrhistory.com/VRMaps/Vic1950…
Hurst's Bridge Railway Station, Opening Day, 25 June 1912
victoriancollections.net.au/items/59c7485d…
Ministerial train.
Hurst's Bridge Railway Station
(waiting for the Ministerial train)
Leader (Melbourne, Vic) Sat 6 Jul 1912 Page 30
OPENING THE HURST'S - BRIDGE RAILWAY
trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/arti…
Wet day ... some other photographs at link.
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28 Oct
Good Morning Alamein!
Alamein station opened in 1948. Originally on the outer circle line (no station) the section of the former outer circle railway from Riversdale to Ashburton was extended to Alamein in 1948.

Alamein line 1950
vrhistory.com/VRMaps/Vic1950…
The Argus (Melbourne, Vic.) Fri 28 May 1948 Page 5
ALAMEIN IN VICTORIA
trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/arti…
The station served a new Housing Commission estate that had been constructed for people who were displaced after World War II. Named after the WW II battlefield in North Africa.
EL ALAMEIN RAILWAY STATION (Egypt).
THIS STATION HAS BEEN SUBJECTED TO MUCH AERIAL AND ARTILLERY STRAFING IN RECENT WEEKS. NOTE EFFECT OF SHRAPNEL ON THE WALL ON EXTREME LEFT.
awm.gov.au/collection/C86…
Alamein station in Egypt 1942.
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28 Oct
Ping @InclusionMoves
Was this the cab mock up?
Possibly. Inside the 'cab' at Wulkuraka open day Feb 2016
railbotforum.org/mbs/index.php?…
The one in the backyard was probably an earlier mock up?
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27 Oct
The Rosstown railway was a private railway from Oakleigh to Elsternwick. It had a short history, but if things worked out it could well be part of the Melbourne suburban rail network today. Construction planning from 1875 completed in 1891.
flickr.com/photos/past2pr…
Built by William Murray Ross for transporting sugar beet to his sugar mill, and the refined product to the Port of Melbourne. The mill failed to begin production, the line fell into disrepair without being used.

The mill with the planned railway 1876
trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/page…
Construction trains using hired Y classes operated on the line. It is recorded Ross ran one passenger train on the line.

Ross also proposed a line from the Rosstown railway up to the Dandenong line. Rosstown was the 1st name for Carnegie. This is why some of the streets curved.
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27 Oct
Port Melbourne was known as Sandridge until 1884, was the first railway in Victoria. Melbourne terminus (later Flinders Street Station) to Sandridge, and the Railway Pier ( later rebuilt 1930 known as Station Pier ) open 1854.

1870 rail network
vrhistory.com/VRMaps/Vic1870…
Melbourne and Hobson's Bay Railway Company built the line which opened in September 1854. VR took over 1878.
4 locomotives had been ordered from Stephenson England but had not arrived for the opening. A local firm built the first engine in 10 weeks.

VR Power Parade 1954
SANDRIDGE STATION YARD
2-4-0 TANK ENGINE AND PIER DONKEY OR SHUNTING ENGINE No.5 WITH 4 WHEEL GOODS WAGONS MELBOURNE AND HOBSONS BAY RAILWAY COMPANY
metadata.prov.vic.gov.au/imagefiles/128…
4 of the Stephenson 2-4-0 WT were in service by 1855.
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