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Yarrawonga-Oaklands rail ticket 1978. The Oaklands railway line is a freight-only railway line in north-eastern Victoria, Australia. The line branches from the main North East railway at Benalla station and runs across the Victoria-New South Wales border to the town of Oaklands, New South Wales.
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The Yarrawonga - Oaklands line opened in 1938 and met the NSWGR Oaklands line at a break-of-gauge. [2] It remains open today for grain traffic and has been converted to standard gauge. The line from Robinvale to Lette never officially opened, but the Railway Construction Branch ran an annual train on it from 1932 until it was dismantled in 1943 ...
Yarrawonga was founded as a village in 1868, [4] [5] with a Post Office being opened on 28 November 1874, [8] and a courthouse the very same year. [7] It was connected by rail to Melbourne in 1886. [4] [7] Yarrawonga was proclaimed a shire in 1891, [4] [5] It was renamed from 'North Yarrawonga Shire' (1891) to 'Yarrawonga Shire' in 1893. [4]
A standard gauge branch line from the New South Wales Government Railways Main South line at The Rock was extended from Lockhart to Oaklands in 1912. [5]A broad gauge branch line from the Victorian Railways North East line at Benalla was extended from Yarrawonga to Oaklands in 1938, creating a break-of-gauge until the New South Wales line was closed south of Boree Creek.
Overview map. This is a list of former railway stations and railway lines in Victoria, Australia.Many of these stations and lines have been abandoned or demolished. There is a strong desire by communities to have many of these re-opened to better link Regional Victoria to the state capital Melbourne.