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This cache belongs to the SideTracked series. It is not designed to take you to a magical place with a breath taking view. It's a distraction for the weary traveller, but anyone else can go and find it too. More Information can be found at the SideTracked Website
As this is now a Heritage station rather then a regular passenger train line, it is a REALLY Sidetracked cache
Darnum Station
Darnum railway station was a railway station on the Orbost railway line. It was opened in 1880 and closed sometime in the mid-late 1900s The station was provided with a saleyard in 1910. Milk was also loaded and shipped from the station to Flinders Street railway station every day.
Darnum Station was opened on Wednesday, 4th February 1880 and it was closed to passengers on the 5th of October 1982 and closed completely on the 13th September 1983, it is 106 Kilometres from Melbourne, The Up station is warragul (Nilma when it was open), and the down station is Yarragon.
It was destroyed by fire on the 25th of September 1913, but I cannot find a record of when it was rebuilt.
A railway station was built at Darnum on the Gippsland railway line, and the station opened on 4 February 1880 . The township of Darnum also contained a store, a school, and post office and hotel within a couple of years of the railway being established. By the early 1900s, a series of tramways extended from Darnum station north and south to several sawmills in the area. The trams travelled seven miles to transport timber to the railway station. Once timber was cleared in the area, the land was utilised for dairying. Milk was railed to Melbourne on a daily basis from milk depots at Darnum, which had opened in 1912 and 1915. A saleyard was located at the railway station in 1910. Despite land clearing, sawmills continued to operate in the area until 1980 . The station was closed on 13 September 1983. The Gippsland railway line between Warragul and Yarragon was duplicated in 1952 and electrified in 1955 . A Gippsland Railway plan indicates that a small part of the railway station reserve to the south of the railway line was purchased by the Country Road Board for construction of the Princes Freeway which occurred in the early 1980s . A Victorian Railways plan of Darnum railway station shows the passenger platform and station to the north of the railway line and the goods platform to the south of the railway line. The passenger platform was approached via a ramp from Railway Avenue to the north, along gravel paths. The passenger platform had several station buildings. To the north, adjacent to Railway Avenue, there was the Ganger's House, and to the northwest there was the Station Master's Residence. To the far west, there was a building called House Ward located close to the level crossing. It may have been where the level crossing operator was located. Directly opposite the station, on the corner of Railway Avenue and Wellings Street the Commercial Hotel was situated.
The station has being completely demolished to allow for the duplication and upgrading of the line.
Cache information
This is a 200ml sistema, The satelite photo shows the location of the old station, there are no remains. If you look East from GZ towards the large gumtree you can see the previous location of the station.