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Katunga is a closed railway station on the Goulburn Valley railway in the township of Katunga, Victoria, Australia. The station opened at the same time as the railway from Numurkah to Strathmerton on 1 October 1888. [1] The station presently has a grain silo and loop siding.
Blackall is a rural town and locality in the Blackall-Tambo Region, Queensland, Australia. The town is the service centre for the Blackall-Tambo Region. The dominant industry in the area is grazing with over 70 homesteads in the locality. In the 2021 census, the locality of Blackall had a population of 1,365 people.
The Goulburn Valley is a sub-region, part of the Hume region of the Australian state of Victoria. The sub-region consists of those areas in the catchment of the Goulburn River and other nearby streams, and is part of the Murray-Darling Basin. The Goulburn Valley is bordered on the south by the Great Dividing Range and to the north by the Murray River, the state border with New South Wales. The sub-region is one of Australia's most productive and intensively farmed areas and is predominantly irrigated.
Darwin was a surveyed and short-lived community at the eastern side of Mount Darwin on the West Coast Range.
Katunga is a town in the Goulburn Valley region of northern Victoria, Australia. The town is located in the Shire of Moira local government area, 228 kilometres from the state capital, Melbourne. At the 2016 census, Katunga had a population of 996.
Mangalore is a closed station located in the township of Mangalore, at the junction of the North East and Goulburn Valley railway lines in Victoria, Australia. The station was one of 35 closed to passenger traffic on 4 October 1981 as part of the New Deal for Country Passengers. The former station building was moved from the site, and currently sits in a yard on the way into nearby Avenel.
Longwood is a closed station located in the town of Longwood, on the North East line, in Victoria, Australia. The station had a single platform on the east side of the former broad gauge line, with the standard gauge line running behind, in a 19 feet (5.8 m) deep cutting, with a pedestrian overpass providing station access. A former passing loop, with the same name, was located nearby.
Toolamba is a closed railway station on the Goulburn Valley railway in the town of Toolamba, Victoria, Australia. The station opened as a junction at the same time as the railway from Mangalore to Shepparton on 13 January 1880, with the line to Tatura opening on the same day. The last passenger service to the station from Echuca ran on 2 March 1981 with Y class diesel locomotive Y161 an ABE carriage and a C van. This consist had only been introduced a few months prior, with a DERM usually being rostered. Toolamba finally closed as a station on 20 December 1987.
The County of Moira is one of the 37 counties of Victoria which are part of the cadastral divisions of Australia, used for land titles. It is located to the east of the Goulburn River, south of the Murray River, and west of part of the Ovens River. Part of Wangaratta is in the county, on the eastern end of it. It also includes Shepparton. The Shire of Moira is in a similar area.
The electoral district of Shepparton is a rural Lower House electoral district of the Victorian Parliament. It is located within the Northern Victoria Region of the Legislative Council.
The Shire of Numurkah was a local government area on the Murray River in the Goulburn Valley region, about 210 kilometres (130 mi) north of Melbourne, the state capital of Victoria, Australia. The shire covered an area of 820 square kilometres (316.6 sq mi), and existed from 1957 until 1994.
Arcadia is a closed railway station on the Goulburn Valley railway in the township of Arcadia, Victoria, Australia. The station opened at the same time as the railway from Mangalore to Shepparton on 13 January 1880 and closed on 30 June 1977. The platform was on the west side of the line, with only the dirt mound remaining today.
Tabilk is a closed railway station on the Goulburn Valley railway in the township of Tabilk, Victoria, Australia. The station opened at the same time as the railway from Mangalore to Shepparton on 13 January 1880 and closed in 1985. The platform was on the east side of the line, with the dirt mound remaining today. Prior to its closure, in 1975, the platform was shortened at the up end of the station.
Congupna is a closed railway station on the Goulburn Valley railway line, in the township of Congupna, just north of Shepparton, Victoria, Australia. The station opened as Congupna Road at the same time as the railway from Shepparton to Numurkah on 1 September 1881, and was renamed Congupna in February 1968.
Tallygaroopna is a closed railway station on the Goulburn Valley line, in the township of Tallygaroopna, Victoria, Australia. The station opened at the same time as the railway line from Shepparton to Numurkah on 1 September 1881. The passenger platform was shortened in length from 107.3m to 101.2m in 1973. The siding to the grain silos was lifted at an unknown date.
Wunghnu is a closed railway station on the Goulburn Valley line, in the township of Wunghnu, Victoria, Australia. The station opened at the same time as the railway from Shepparton to Numurkah on 1 September 1881, and was closed to freight in March 2003. The loop siding to the grain silos remains, and has been used to stable track machines such as ballast tampers.
Numurkah is a closed railway station on the Goulburn Valley railway line, which once served the town of the same name, in Victoria, Australia.
Merton is a railway station in Merton, Victoria, Victoria, Australia. In 1974, it became a no-one-in-charge station. More recently, it was refurbished as a museum.
Tatura railway station is a closed railway station on the Toolamba–Echuca railway line, in Victoria, Australia, formerly serving the town of Tatura. The former platform mound remains adjacent to the large dairy farm at Tatura. The track contains a kink near the former station site, where the rail yard area once was. There is a semaphore signal at the up end of the station. The station officially closed on 8 April 1991.
Monea is a closed railway station located in the township of Monea, on the Albury-Wodonga railway line in Victoria, Australia.
The Tablelands railway line is a railway line in North Queensland, Australia. It was opened in a series of sections between 1887 and 1916. It commences at Cairns and at its maximum extent, reached Ravenshoe at the southern end of the Atherton Tableland. The rail system served by this line was unusual for Queensland in that the majority of lines that connected to it were built by private companies and later purchased by the Queensland Government.
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