North Creswick railway station | |||||||||||||||||||||
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Location | Victoria, Australia | ||||||||||||||||||||
Coordinates | 37°24′19″S143°53′02″E / 37.4054°S 143.8840°E Coordinates: 37°24′19″S143°53′02″E / 37.4054°S 143.8840°E | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Status | Closed | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Opened | 1887 | ||||||||||||||||||||
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North Creswick railway station was a small junction station on the Mildura railway line where the Ballarat to Daylesford railway line branched to the northeast. Nothing remains of the station. [1] It was 176.407 km from the start of the main line. [2]
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Daylesford is a spa town located in the foothills of the Great Dividing Range, within the Shire of Hepburn, Victoria, Australia, approximately 108 kilometres north-west of Melbourne. First established in 1852 as a gold-mining town, today Daylesford has a population of 2,548 as of the 2016 census.
Creswick is a town in west-central Victoria, Australia, 18 kilometres north of Ballarat and 122 kilometres northwest of Melbourne, in the Shire of Hepburn. It is 430 metres above sea level. At the 2016 census, Creswick had a population of 3,170. Creswick was named after the Creswick family, the pioneer settlers of the region.
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