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A suburban railway station, within the 10kms radius of the city, Yarraville has the platform flanking a pair of tracks. One of the platforms has a painted brick station building constructed in 1893, while the opposite platform has a wooden shelter. An old site on the eastern side of this station, which still exists, was a goods yard that was demolished in 1990s.
Railway Geelong
The station opened on the line on February 2, 1861 as a stopping place but was not until November 20, 1871 that a proper platform was provided. The brick signal box was rebuilt in 1927 and has been retained after closure, though closed off. The level crossing at Anderson Street has a set of interlocked gates preserved in the open position, that were originally commissioned in 1890. One set of four gates protected the double main line, while another set of two gates protected the siding
As per Wikipedia,
Yarraville railway station is located on the Werribee and Williamstown lines in Victoria, Australia. It serves the inner-western Melbourne suburb of the same name, and opened on 20 November 1871 as South Footscray.
Yarraville station opened twelve years after the line from Footscray was extended to Newport. Like the suburb itself, the station was named after the Yarraville real estate development, which was promoted by Biers, Henningham & Co. Land sales began in 1859.
In 1892, the present station buildings were provided, replacing timber buildings that had been destroyed by fire in 1890.
The station opened to goods traffic in 1883 and, in 1893, a goods shed that had been at South Morang was relocated to Yarraville. In 1912, an extension of the yard was provided at the up end.
By July 1969, the station had been closed to goods traffic, with the goods shed demolished shortly after. In 1970, an overpass replaced a level crossing at nearby Somerville Road and, in 1991, the goods yard was removed. Interlocked crossing gates, controlled from a signal box at the down end of Platform 1, protected the Anderson Street level crossing until 1995, when the gates were fixed in the open position and replaced by boom barriers, leading to the closure of the signal box the next year. In 1997, a pedestrian subway under the line in Anderson Street was filled in and replaced by pedestrian gates.
The cache:
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I would recommend that you park away from gz and walk back to find this cache.
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