Moriac | |||||||||||||||||||||
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Line(s) | Warrnambool | ||||||||||||||||||||
Platforms | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||||
Tracks | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Status | Closed | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Opened | 1 October 1877 | ||||||||||||||||||||
Closed | 4 October 1981 | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Moriac is a closed station on the Warrnambool railway line, located in the town of Moriac, Victoria. The station opened on 1 October 1877, [1] and was one of 35 stations in Victoria, and five on the Warrnambool line, which were closed to passenger traffic on 4 October 1981, as part of the so-called New Deal for country passengers. [2] [3]
Moriac station was the junction of the short branch line south to Wensleydale, which opened in 1889, and was closed in 1948. [2]
The station was the scene of a fatal accident in April 1952. A woman was killed when a Melbourne-bound train collided with a Warrnambool-bound train which was still shunting into siding at the station to allow the Melbourne-bound train to pass it on the single track. The victim was in the first carriage of the Melbourne-bound train, which was telescoped after being forced into the tender of the locomotive. [4]
The bluestone platform facing remains, along with the earth goods loading bank, and a wooden buffer stop. [2]
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