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Clematis Puffing Billy Railway station Clematis station and platform, January 2022. General information Coordinates 37°55′42″S 145°25′25″E / 37.92831°S 145.42354°E / -37.92831; 145.42354 Line(s) Gembrook Distance 49.77 km (30.93 mi) from Flinders Street Platforms 1 Tracks 2 Other information Status Unstaffed History Previous names Paradise Valley; Paradise Services ...
In 2022, the Emerald Tourist Railway Act 1977 was replaced by the Puffing Billy Railway Act 2022. That move was partly influenced by the recommendations in the 2018 report by the Victorian Ombudsman on the activities of child sex offender Robert Whitehead at the Puffing Billy Railway and other Victorian heritage railway organisations. [ 17 ]
Cockatoo railway station is situated on the Puffing Billy Railway in the town of the same name. It opened with the line on 18 December 1900 as Devon, but was renamed Cockatoo Creek on 29 July 1901 and subsequently shortened to Cockatoo in 1904. There was originally a platform road and a loop siding, but a crossing loop was later added in ...
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.
Fielder railway station is situated on the Puffing Billy Railway in Australia. It opened as a Stopping Place on Monday 10 September 1928, [ 1 ] as part of the Gembrook railway line. It was originally an unnamed platform, with time tables noting a station at 38 miles (61 km).
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 ...
Other improvements include a new Sunday timetable and a Saturday timetable operating from 6 am to 10 pm. Cockatoo is indirectly served by route 838 (Emerald to Fountain Gate Shopping Centre via Berwick) provided by Cardinia Transit, which connects with route 695 at Emerald. [6] Cockatoo has a railway station on the Puffing Billy Railway. The ...
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.