Serviceton, Victoria
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Serviceton () is a small town located near the Victorian-South Australian border, 437 kilometres north-west of Melbourne. When the Victorian and South Australian railways were joined at the old border in 1887, a station was built on the border. The station and town were named after Sir James Service, Premier of Victoria in 1880 and from 1883-86. The border was intended to be on the 141 degrees east meridian but, owing to a surveying error, border markers were placed 4.5 km west of the meridian. Victoria finally succeeded in having the erroneously surveyed border declared to be the legal border in 1913, and therefore Serviceton is now fully in Victoria. Nevertheless, the old South Australian Railways, and its successors, the Australian National Railways Commission, the National Rail Corporation and the Australian Rail Track Corporation have continued to own the railway to Serviceton outright.
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Partly adapted from the Sydney Morning Herald, February 8, 2004
