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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.
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 ...
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.
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]
Lockhart railway station. The Oaklands railway line is a partly-closed railway line in New South Wales, Australia. It is a branch of the Main South line at The Rock, and heads in a south-westerly direction through the towns of Boree Creek and Urana, terminating at Oaklands. The line opened to Lockhart in 1901, and to Oaklands in 1912. [1]
The Shire of Yarrawonga was a local government area on the Murray River, in the Goulburn Valley region, about 260 kilometres (162 mi) northeast of Melbourne, the state capital of Victoria, Australia. The shire covered an area of 626.78 square kilometres (242.0 sq mi), and existed from 1891 until 1994.
Listed on the Victorian Heritage Register, it was the second bridge of its type built in Victoria, and the first metal railway bridge both designed and fabricated within the colony. [5] The Oaklands branch line to St James opened in 1883, and was extended to Yarrawonga in 1886.
A railway museum is a museum that explores the history of all aspects of rail related transportation, including: locomotives (steam, diesel, and electric), railway cars, trams, and railway signalling equipment. They may also operate historic equipment on museum grounds.