ROSSTOWN RAILWAY SERIES #2 Traditional Cache
jupiterpearl: The current cache has disappeared - time to archive some more of the RR series after 5-6 years
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ROSSTOWN RAILWAY SERIES #2
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This is now a old series of caches on the Rosstown Rail Trail traveling west from Oakleigh. There is also a multi-cache. Most of the caches in the series have been archived . Others are currently disabled. For this cache parking is difficult, muggle activity can vary from locals, pedestrians, cyclists and the occasional Kindergarten folk.
You can walk or ride a bike along this route. Destined never to be used but always a dream . William Murray Ross built the never to be used Rosstown Railway first in 1883 and then had to be redone in 1887-8 due to the shoddiness of the original build. It was to carry produce from his other failed venture in the area the sugar beet mill.( the Northern Queensland Sugar cane industry would have probably ended it time anyway. ) There was a lot of concern from the market gardeners in the area that his mill would use all the water supply available in the area- (Lehmann's Swamp Reserve - now Koornang Park and the current swimming pool!) The railway would have been useful in today's age as it would have linked the Dandenong Line /go under the Frankston Line and eventually meet Sandringham Line at Elsternwick. Ross bought and owned a lot of land in the area and had his home "the Grange"in the area . (Grange Road). Carnegie was known as Rosstown until the early 1900's but its namesake hotel still stands on Dandenong Road in Carnegie North. There are a few of the series left - other caches have been archived. Junction II , All Aboard Mr. Bent, Rosstown Railway cache -1 , Trainspotting cache , Rosstown Multicache - Take a Ticket. For this cache, it is a micro so bring your own pen and replace it as you found it. Joint FTF honours go to The Welder, n0w0rries and Archie B.
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Vg gbbx jbbq, Fgrry, naq teniry gb znxr gur envyjnl.
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