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Location | Station Street, Seymour, Victoria 3660 Shire of Mitchell Australia | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Coordinates | 37°01′28″S145°08′18″E / 37.0245°S 145.1384°E | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Owned by | VicTrack | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Operated by | V/Line | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Distance | 98.70 kilometres from Southern Cross | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Platforms | 3 (1 island, 1 side) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Tracks | 4 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Structure type | Ground | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Parking | Yes | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bicycle facilities | Yes | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Accessible | Yes | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Status | Operational, staffed part-time | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Station code | SEY | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Fare zone | Myki Zone 6/7 overlap | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Website | Public Transport Victoria | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
History | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Opened | 20 November 1872 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Rebuilt | 2009 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Seymour railway station is on the North East line in Victoria, Australia. It serves the town of Seymour, and opened on 20 November 1872. [1] The station is the terminus for V/Line's Seymour line services. [2]
A locomotive depot previously operated north of the station. Today, it is the home of the Seymour Railway Heritage Centre, and is still used to stable V/Line trains. The station also had a goods yard opposite the main passenger platform. North of Seymour, the Tocumwal line branches off towards Shepparton.
The railway to Seymour officially opened on 20 November 1872. Because the bridge over the Goulburn River was not finished, the line from Essendon station had opened on 18 April 1872 to a temporary terminus at School House Lane. [3]
Mangalore station, now demolished, was located north of Seymour, at the junction of the North East and Tocumwal lines. School House Lane / Dysart Sidings / Goulburn Junction was located between Seymour and Tallarook stations.
When the station opened, only a single platform was provided, with temporary timber station buildings and three tracks. [4] A brick building was erected in 1874/1875, with extensions and alterations made in 1883/1884, including a new street facade. [5] In 1886, a subway was provided to the platform from Station Street, and in 1887, the street entrance to the station was removed, to permit the opening of the back platform. A level crossing was constructed to provide access to the station. More alterations to the station occurred in 1926.
To house railway employees and their families, a number of Departmental Residences were erected adjacent to the station by the Victorian Railways. Around the start of the 20th century, there was 29 residences, increasing to 82 by the 1960s. They have since been sold to private owners. [6]
Although the station looks like one large building from Station Street, it is made up of numerous smaller buildings behind a common facade. The refreshment room is a grand two-storey building, while the ticket office and waiting room is a collection of smaller buildings. Though the standard gauge line to Albury, which opened in 1962, passed the station, a platform was not provided on the line until 1974. [7] It was only one carriage long, and was not used for regular services. It was removed in 2008, when Platform 1 was converted to standard gauge. [8] The station was altered to the current interior layout in 1997, when a general refurbishment was carried out, with the parcels office being converted into a waiting room and toilets. [9]
In 2008, there was a $1.5 million upgrade of the bus interchange, [10] with the subway to the station being rebuilt on a shallower grade, to allow wheelchair access. These works were done in preparation for the Australian Rail Track Corporation's North-East Rail Revitalisation Project, during which all V/Line trains north of Seymour were replaced by buses, while gauge-conversion of the line was undertaken. A part of the project also involved the construction of a new broad gauge Platform 3, on the western side of the yard, which opened in November 2009. [11] [12] [13]
A railway refreshment room was opened at Seymour station in 1873, replacing the one at Kilmore East. [14] It later became the largest country refreshment rooms in the state.
By 1875, the room was serving at least six trains per day, with 15 minutes permitted for passengers to eat. In 1884, the rooms were expanded with new buffet and dining rooms. Buffet patrons ordered and collected their food from a counter and ate elsewhere, while dining room patrons sat down and received table service. [15] They were originally managed under lease, but were taken over by the Victorian Railways in 1919, in preparation for the creation of the Refreshment Services Branch in 1920. [16]
The rooms catered for 150 people standing in the buffet, and 112 people seated in the dining room, and was staffed at its peak by 34 employees, who lived in a cottage complex near the station. [16] By 1976, the rooms were in decline, with a staff of 11 employees serving only light refreshments. The rooms closed on 8 October 1981, when on-train catering was provided on all trains passing through the station. [17] The buffet room was refurbished in 1993–1995 for community uses, but the dining room is used for storage. [18]
While the Seymour to Albury line was being upgraded to standard gauge, the refreshment rooms reopened as a café in November 2008, to cater for V/Line Albury/Wodonga line passengers who used Seymour to transfer between coaches and trains. [19]
The locomotive depot at Seymour existed from the opening of the station until 1993. [20] It was the home of the S class 4-6-2 Pacific locomotives, which hauled the Spirit of Progress .
The depot was originally located just to the north of the station, with a two locomotive shed and a 42-foot (13 m) turntable. It was moved to the current location in 1889, where a new nine-track, roundhouse-style shed was erected in timber and corrugated iron, along with a coal stage and brick offices. In 1902, the roundhouse was extended to thirteen bays and, in 1910, it was extended to twenty bays, which almost made a complete circle. In 1890, the original turntable was replaced by a 50-foot (15 m) version, and by a 70-foot (21 m) version in 1907. In the 1930s, an electric turntable was provided, until replaced by a more modern version in 1954.
At the peak of operation in June 1950, 245 railway men worked at Seymour Locomotive Depot, made up of 60 drivers, 57 firemen, 41 cleaners, 14 mechanics, 53 shed staff, nine rail motor staff, and 11 train examiners. [21] By 1958, the number of staff had declined to 181, with the arrival of diesel locomotives. The last steam locomotive housed there withdrawn in 1966.
Much of the roundhouse was removed in 1961, in conjunction with construction of the standard gauge line, and the rest of it was demolished in May 1971, leaving just the workshop buildings. By 1976, only 125 were employed at the depot and, by the 1980s, locomotives were no longer based there. It was officially closed on 8 April 1993. [22] Today, it used to stable V/Line trains, as well as being the home of the Seymour Railway Heritage Centre.
A goods shed was provided at Seymour in September 1873, of the same though-track, round-roof style seen at Kilmore East, Tallarook, Avenel, and Euroa stations. [23] In 1885, the yard was extended from three to nine tracks, and a new, smaller, goods shed was provided. It was lengthened in 1909, and again in 1930. [23]
Until the 1960s, the main outbound traffic was agricultural produce, wool, firewood and timber, and there were incoming supplies for the town. By the 1970s, small consignments of goods were only handled by a number of larger stations, with road transport used the rest of the way. The Seymour Freight Centre opened on 8 February 1978, to serve the local area, and remained in use until 27 April 1985. [24]
Seymour has one island platform with two faces and one side platform. It is served by V/Line Seymour, Shepparton and Albury line trains. [2] [25] [26] It is also served by NSW TrainLink XPT trains travelling between Sydney and Melbourne. [27]
Platform 1:
Platform 2:
Platform 3:
Mitchell Transit operates five bus routes to and from Seymour station, under contract to Public Transport Victoria:
Shepparton Transit operates one bus route to and from Seymour station, under contract to Public Transport Victoria:
V/Line operates road coach services from Seymour station to Albury, Echuca, Melbourne, Shepparton, Tocumwal and Wangaratta. [34]
Broadmeadows railway station is located on the Craigieburn line in Victoria, Australia. It serves the northern Melbourne suburb of Broadmeadows, and opened on 1 February 1873.
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Wallan railway station is located on the North East line in Victoria, Australia. It serves the town of Wallan, and opened on 18 April 1872.
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Wandong railway station is located on the North East line in Victoria, Australia. It serves the town of Wandong, and opened on 11 April 1876.
Kilmore East railway station is located on the North East line in Victoria, Australia. It serves the town of Kilmore East, and opened on 18 April 1872 as Kilmore. It was renamed Kilmore East on 1 October 1888.
Broadford railway station is located on the North East line in Victoria, Australia. It serves the town of Broadford, and opened on 18 April 1872.
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Benalla railway station is located on the North East line in Victoria, Australia. It serves the town of Benalla, and it opened on 18 August 1873.
Euroa railway station is located on the North East line in Victoria, Australia. It serves the town of Euroa, and opened on 20 March 1873.
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The North East railway line is a railway line in Victoria, Australia. The line runs from Southern Cross railway station on the western edge of the Melbourne central business district to Albury railway station in the border settlement of Albury-Wodonga, serving the cities of Wangaratta and Seymour, and smaller towns in northeastern Victoria.
Nagambie railway station is located on the Tocumwal line in Victoria, Australia. It serves the town of Nagambie, and it opened on 13 January 1880.
Shepparton railway station is located on the Tocumwal line in Victoria, Australia. It serves the city of Shepparton, and it opened on 13 January 1880.
The Tocumwal railway line is a 1,600 mm gauge railway line in Victoria, Australia. The line runs between the border town of Tocumwal in New South Wales to Southern Cross, Melbourne. The line is utilised by various passenger and freight trains serving the northern suburbs of Melbourne and northern regions of Victoria.
Albury railway station is a heritage-listed railway station at Railway Place, Albury, New South Wales, Australia, adjacent to the border with Victoria, in Australia. It was designed under the direction of John Whitton and built from 1880 to 1881. It was added to the New South Wales State Heritage Register in 1999.
The Albury line is a regional passenger rail service operated by V/Line in Victoria, Australia. It serves passengers between the state capital of Melbourne and the regional cities of Benalla, Wangaratta, Wodonga, and the NSW border city of Albury.
Hoys Roadlines was an Australian bus operator based in the Victorian city of Wangaratta. From 1993 until 2004 the company also had a contract to operate train services on the Shepparton line on behalf of the Victorian State Government.
Tocumwal railway station is a heritage-listed closed railway station in the town of Tocumwal, New South Wales, Australia. It was once the break-of-gauge between the broad gauge Victorian Railways Tocumwal line from the south, and the standard gauge New South Wales Government Railways Tocumwal line from the north. However, only the line from Victoria is still open.