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Lakeside railway station is situated on the Puffing Billy Railway in Melbourne, Australia.It was opened in 1944 to serve Emerald Lake Park, a popular picnic and recreation reserve created during World War II.
The Puffing Billy Running Festival is an annual event held between Belgrave and Emerald Lake. The event includes a 1.2 kilometres (0.75 mi) kids dash, 5 kilometres (3.1 mi) fun run, 13.5 kilometres (8.4 mi) classic, and a 21.1 kilometres (13.1 mi) half marathon, which has been held in the third quarter of the year since 2023.
The Puffing Billy Railway is a 2 ft 6 in (762 mm) narrow gauge heritage railway in the southern foothills of the Dandenong Ranges in Melbourne, Australia. The railway was one of the five narrow gauge lines of the Victorian Railways which opened around the beginning of the 20th century.
Beyond Belgrave, the narrow-gauge line has been restored as the Puffing Billy Railway, which runs tourist services to the original terminus of Gembrook. The line operates for approximately 19 hours a day (from approximately 5:00 am to around 12:00 am) with 24 hour service available on Friday and Saturday nights.
It is the inner terminal of the famous Puffing Billy heritage steam railway. Belgrave (Puffing Billy) is adjacent to, and forms an interchange with, Belgrave suburban railway station, which is the outer terminal of the Belgrave line of Melbourne's broad gauge (5 ft 3in) electric suburban network. The suburban station is accessible via a short ...
On 21 July 1962, a new station for the narrow gauge line was provided, along with the re-opening of the line as far as Menzies Creek as the Puffing Billy Railway. [4] [5] [6] The Belgrave narrow gauge station is approximately 100 metres north of the metropolitan broad gauge station, and serves as the starting point for the Puffing Billy Railway ...
This is a route-map template for the Puffing Billy Railway, a railway line in Victoria, Australia.. For a key to symbols, see {{railway line legend}}.; For information on using this template, see Template:Routemap.
towards Gembrook Emerald railway station is situated on the Puffing Billy Railway in Victoria , Australia . [ 1 ] It was opened with the Railway on 18 December 1900 and comprised a platform track and a loop siding.