Can You Hear the Steam Whistle? Traditional Cache
Can You Hear the Steam Whistle?
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Welcome to the 29th. cache by Team Ladava continuing our historical tour of Sunbury and District.
Construction was started on the Heritage Listed, New Gisborne Railway Station in 1875 on the Melbourne-Bendigo line. These were the formative years of railway development in Victoria.
The 1982 Victoria's railway stations report stated 'Gisborne is the most complete example of this large group of station buildings'. Subsequent investigation by Andrew Ward, one of the authors of this survey, has revealed that the original hand operated crane (1861) and water supply tank (1860) have been demolished. The wings have been removed from the station building and the gatekeeper's cottage was demolished in 1984. Despite these detrimental changes, the New Gisborne station retains some outstanding elements in an easily interpreted railway complex. The platforms with bluestone walls are original as is the gable roofed corrugated iron-clad goods shed. The goods shed, representative of others that would once have been on the line, has an internal road and platform. The original iron gutters are also in place. The present station building was erected in 1921, to plans of the architect James Fawcett.
You are looking for a camouflaged micro so B.Y.O. pen.
As this is an operating Railway Station, at times, there is high numbers of both car and pedestrian traffic and they can appear from any direction. In addition, there is a house with windows opposite the search area so discretion is paramount.
You will be under the surveillance of CCTV cameras (we don’t recall them being there when we planned the cache more than six months ago) so it will be interesting to see if we get any reaction from security staff.
If it becomes an issue we will simply archive the cache.
We suggest you avoid peak commuter times or perhaps you could use this to your advantage.
PLEASE include in your log the strategy used to avoid detection.
Enjoy
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