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Williamstown Racecourse Railway Station Traditional Cache

This cache has been archived.

Robmc: This area is still fenced off due to railway line work, and will be for the foreseeable future. So I am archiving this cache.
Robmc.

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Hidden : 7/16/2014
Difficulty:
1.5 out of 5
Terrain:
1.5 out of 5

Size: Size:   small (small)

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Geocache Description:

This cache requires a lot of imagination, not to find the traditional, but to work out where the station was!



Looking north from the station site, Altona line to the left and stanchion bases to the right

Williamstown Racecourse is a demolished station on the former Altona railway line, which now forms part of the Werribee railway line in Melbourne, Australia. It was located south of the Kororoit Creek Road level crossing in the suburb of Altona but north of the creek.
History

The station was opened as the terminus of a 1.1 km branch from the main Geelong line, serving the Williamstown Racecourse across the creek. The railway line was extended by a private company in 1888 to Altona, leaving the station yard on the western side. The station consisted of an island platform, signal box, run around roads, and a number of sidings. Overhead wiring was commissioned in 1920 as part of the suburban electrification project. The racecourse was closed after World War II but the overhead equipment remained until 1950. Today the remains of a few stanchion bases can be seen beside the current line to Altona.

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