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| Line(s) | Briagolong | |||||||||||||||
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| Status | Closed | |||||||||||||||
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| Opened | 1889 | |||||||||||||||
| Closed | 1952 | |||||||||||||||
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Briagolong is a closed station located in the town of Briagolong, at the terminus of the Briagolong railway line in Victoria, Australia.
The station opened concurrently with the Briagolong railway line in 1889, and was 232 km from Southern Cross. [1] [2] In 1903, it was announced that the Railway Department intended to place a woman in charge of the station, which was objected to by the Maffra Spectator, who remarked that "the work at the station requires the service of a man, and it is to be hoped that the Department will speedily recognise this, and not place work on a woman which she could not carry out". [3]
By 1920, the Railway Commissioners had declined to appoint a stationmaster for Briagolong, due to the traffic at the station not warranting it. [4] In early 1940, a firewood plant alongside several trucks of wood at Briagolong station were destroyed by a fire, with the loss estimated to be £200. [5] The station closed in 1952. The raised embankment and sections that made up the base of the railway line can still be seen at the site of the station today, as well as an indentation in the ground where the turntable used to be located. [6]
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Valencia Creek is a rural town in East Gippsland, Victoria, Australia on the Valencia Creek-Briagolong Road, north of Maffra in the Shire of Wellington. The junction of Valencia Creek and the Avon River are a short distance upstream. The foothills of the Great Dividing Range start immediately north of Valencia Creek, while dairy farms lie to the south along the Avon River flats to Boisdale.
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The Shire of Maffra was a local government area about 20 kilometres (12 mi) north-northwest of Sale, the major regional centre in central Gippsland, Victoria, Australia. The shire covered an area of 4,167.43 square kilometres (1,609.1 sq mi), and existed from 1875 until 1994.
The Briagolong railway line is a closed railway line in Victoria, Australia, which ran from Maffra to Briagolong. It opened in 1889 as a branch of the Maffra railway line, closing in 1952.
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