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Upper Ferntree Gully station opened on 4 December 1889, when the railway line from Ringwood was extended. [4] After December 1900, it became the break-of-gauge station between the broad gauge used in most of Victoria, and the narrow gauge Gembrook line (now the Puffing Billy Railway), one of the five narrow gauge lines of the Victorian Railways.
Ferntree Gully railway station is a commuter railway station on the Belgrave line, part of the Melbourne railway network. It serves the eastern Melbourne suburb of Ferntree Gully in Victoria, Australia. Ferntree Gully is a ground level premium station, featuring two side platforms. It opened on 5 December 1889, with the current station provided ...
A rail branch was constructed from Ringwood to Upper Ferntree Gully in December 1889. A narrow-gauge 762 mm (2 ft 6 in) line was opened from Upper Ferntree Gully to Gembrook station in December 1900, the second of four experimental narrow-gauge lines built by the Victorian Railways. [6]
From Ferntree Gully Railway Station, the trail goes through the station car park to the level crossing. After crossing at the Alpine Street / Station Street / The Avenue intersection, the trail continues south on the western side of the railway, across a scenic footbridge over Forest Road to pedestrian traffic lights at Burwood Highway in Upper ...
Upper Ferntree Gully: Belgrave: 37.66 23.40 2 [257] 4 December 1889 Upper Ferntree Gully [257] Also spelt Upper Fern Tree Gully Upwey: 40.18 24.97 2 [258] 3 June 1901 Upwey [258] Originally narrow gauge Victoria Park: Hurstbridge Mernda: 5.42 3.37 1 [259] 8 May 1888 Abbotsford [259] Formerly Collingwood Watergardens: Bendigo Echuca Sunbury Swan ...
Excursion train about to leave Upper Ferntree Gully c. 1908. The original line was opened in 1900 to serve the local farming and timber community. It ran to Gembrook from Upper Ferntree Gully station, which was the terminus of the broad gauge line from Melbourne.
Upper Ferntree Gully was a farming area in its early days and formed the end of the electric train line from Melbourne. Holiday makers and day trippers would then make their way by various means of transport to holiday and day tripper locations in "the hills".
[specify] Initially the line terminated at Upper Ferntree Gully, with a narrow-gauge line extending to Gembrook in 1900. Between 1958 and 1962, the narrow-gauge 2' 6" line was upgraded to broad-gauge 5' 3" and electrified to Belgrave which is where the narrow-gauge line (now better known as Puffing Billy) operates from today.