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Good Morning Colac!
Birregurra - Colac open 1877
Colac - Camperdown 1883
Colac - Beech Forest 1902 ( VR 2' 6" narrow gauge )
Colac - Cressy 1910
Colac - Alvie 1923

Network 1947
victorianrailways.net/vr%20map/vrmap…
Colac diagram 1929 updated to 1944
victorianrailways.net/signaling/comp…
Narrow gauge yard is at the bottom of the diagram.
Turntable was not accessible for narrow gauge locos and these were reversed at Beech Forest via a balloon loop.
Colac Railway Station viewer.slv.vic.gov.au/?entity=IE7203… via @Library_Vic c. 1908
Colac Railway Station viewer.slv.vic.gov.au/?entity=IE7204… via @Library_Vic 1908
The Railway Station Colac Vic. viewer.slv.vic.gov.au/?entity=IE7207… via @Library_Vic 1925
Footbridge is at the down end of the yard, provided access to the narrow gauge yard and to residential areas of Colac across the railway.
D1 STEAM LOCOMOTIVE OUTSIDE COLAC ENGINE SHED - Public Record Office Victoria wiki.prov.vic.gov.au/index.php/VPRS… c. 1920s
Colac - view from footbridge looking towards the narrow gauge yard. A NA narrow gauge locomotive can be seen.
P G Dow 1940s
Another view of the yard. A G class narrow gauge Garratt locomotive (G 41) can be seen.
P G Dow c. 1950
Transfer siding at Colac. This was used to move narrow gauge locomotives on and off the broad gauge flat wagons for moving locos to and from Newport for maintenance.

COLAC NARROW GAUGE SIDING - Public Record Office Victoria wiki.prov.vic.gov.au/index.php/VPRS…
COLAC TO BEECH FOREST 3A CLASS STEAM LOCOMOTIVE 1901-1902 - Public Record Office Victoria wiki.prov.vic.gov.au/index.php/VPRS…
The locomotive is on the transfer siding.
3A was the first NA (2-6-2 2' 6" gauge) built by VR at Newport in 1900.
3A is at Belgrave waiting restoration.
Priceless!
Colac Railway Station viewer.slv.vic.gov.au/?entity=IE7204… via @Library_Vic 1970
Colac Shunter D3 646
Weston Langford 2 December 1962
westonlangford.com/images/photo/1…
Colac
Weston Langford 25 April 1964
westonlangford.com/images/photo/1…
The narrow gauge line closed in 1962. Narrow gauge wagons in storage.
The footbridge is a handy location for photographs!
Still there today ...
A photograph I took in January 2020 when I was last in Colac. No sign of the narrow gauge yard. During the 1980s a number of changes to the yard with numerous sidings removed.
Across the footbridge. Where the narrow gauge started and is the beginning of the rail trail.
R Dow Jan 2020
Colac UP Spencer Street service. Back to Melbourne after a lovely luncheon at the Colac RSL.
R Dow Jan 2020
Colac up end
R Dow Jan 2020
The turntable is still there (not in use) behind the end of the fence on the left.
Colac Railway Station viewer.slv.vic.gov.au/?entity=IE7206… via @Library_Vic 1923
Left A2 923 (positioned for water) loco on the right is D1 1016
For a while WestCoast railway ran regular steam revenue services to Warrnambool using R711 and R761 1998-2004. Technically the last steam hauled revenue services.
Photograph I took at Colac Nov 1999 during a water stop
Video:
R711 to Warrnambool - The Westcoaster Returns - May 2018

Colac 8 minute 50 seconds in.
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9 Nov
South Yarra railway station opened Dec 1860 by the Melbourne and Suburban Railway Company, as "Gardiner's Creek Road". Renamed South Yarra Jan 1867. South Yarra became part of the VR network in 1878.

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8 Nov
Good Morning Wodonga!
Wodonga original terminus North East line open Nov 1873. Connection to Albury 1883. April 1962 standard gauge line was extended to Melbourne.
Station closed 2008, replaced by a new station in 2011 on new rail bypass.

Network 1930
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Wodonga diagram 1931
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Heathcote was on the cross country line from Heathcote Junction on the NE main line across to North Bendigo.
North Bendigo Junction - Heathcote opened 1888
Heathcote - Tooborac 1889
Tooborac - Kilmore 1890
Heathcote Junction - Kilmore 1888

Network 1947
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Line profile Heathcote Junction - North Bendigo Junction
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Heathcote diagram 1923 updated to 1926
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Port Albert was the original terminus of the South Gippsland railway and opened in Jan 1892.
Alberton - Port Albert closed in 1949. When the line was built from Alberton to Yarram and Woodside in 1921, Port Albert was no longer a terminus.

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The station was at the northern outskirts of the town proper at Palmerston. There were efforts made by the locals to get VR to extend the line to the actual port.
Port Albert yard also had a narrow gauge tramway bringing in timber. Goodwood Tramway.
media.lrrsa.org.au/edow124/Light_…
V499 at Port Albert 1912
museumsvictoria.com.au/scienceworks/r…
V class 2-8-0
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Korumburra was on the South Gippsland Railway.
Opened 1891 on the Melbourne to Port Albert line.
Branch open 1894 to Jumbunna, 1896 to Outtrim.
The substantial brick station constructed in 1907.

1930 Network map
vrhistory.com/VRMaps/Vic1930…
Korumburra diagram 1935
victorianrailways.net/signaling/comp…
Railway Station Korumburra viewer.slv.vic.gov.au/?entity=IE1472… via @Library_Vic c. 1908
Not long after completed.
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Good Morning Healesville!
Lilydale to Yarra Flats (now known as Yarra Glen) open May 1888. Yarra Glen to Healesville March 1889, with a 1 in 40 climb to a 154.4 metre tunnel with a corresponding descent at nearly the same grade.

1947 Network
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Healesville line profile
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