Wunghnu | ||||||||||||||||
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![]() Looking south, grain silos and loop siding, with stabled track machines | ||||||||||||||||
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Line(s) | Goulburn Valley | |||||||||||||||
Platforms | 0 | |||||||||||||||
Tracks | 2 | |||||||||||||||
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Status | Closed | |||||||||||||||
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Opened | 1881 | |||||||||||||||
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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. [1] The loop siding to the grain silos remains, and has been used to stable track machines such as ballast tampers.
The passenger platform was reduced in length to 79m in 1974. [2]
Wunghnu is a town in the Goulburn Valley region of northern Victoria, Australia. The town is located in the Shire of Moira local government area, 204 kilometres (127 mi) north of the state capital, Melbourne. The local railway station was opened on the Goulburn Valley railway in 1881, but does not see any passenger services, being the site of a siding and grain silos.
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Coordinates: 36°09′17″S145°26′05″E / 36.15472°S 145.43472°E