Harcourt | ||||||||||||||||
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Line(s) | Bendigo | |||||||||||||||
Platforms | 2 | |||||||||||||||
Tracks | 2 | |||||||||||||||
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Status | Closed | |||||||||||||||
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Closed | 4 October 1981 | |||||||||||||||
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Harcourt is a closed station located on the Bendigo line. It served the township of Harcourt and was closed to passenger traffic on 4 October 1981, as part of the New Deal timetable for country passengers. [1]
A 10-ton crane at the station, used for loading blocks of Harcourt granite quarried at nearby Mount Alexander, [2] was removed in 1973. [3]
From 1982 to 2006, the station building on the former down platform housed the studios of Goldfields Community Access Radio (3CCC). [4]
In August 2018, the state government announced that it intended to re-open the station if it was re-elected at the 2018 state election. [5]
There has been a campaign to reopen Harcourt station for many years since the closure but, as of 2025 [update] , that was not included in state government plans for upgrading the Bendigo-Echuca line. [6]
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