Serviceton, Victoria

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Serviceton
Victoria

Platform side of Serviceton railway station

Population:

377^[1]

Established:

1887

Postcode:

3420

Elevation:

119 m (390 ft)

Location:

437 km (272 mi) from Melbourne
294 km (183 mi) from Adelaide (SA)
139 km (86 mi) from Horsham

LGA:

Shire of West Wimmera

State District:

Lowan

Federal Division:

Mallee

Mean Max Temp	Mean Min Temp	Rainfall
21.2 °C ^{70 °F}	8.1 °C ^{47 °F}	490 mm ^{19.3 in}

Serviceton is a small town in Victoria, Australia, located near the Victorian-South Australian border, 437 kilometres north-west of Melbourne. The town was named after James Service, Premier of Victoria in 1880 and from 1883-86. At the 2006 census, Serviceton and the surrounding area had a population of 377.^[1]

When the Victorian and South Australian railways were joined at the old border in 1887, a station was built on the border. The border was intended to be on the 141 degrees east meridian but, owing to a surveying error, border markers were placed 3.6 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. The station is not used but The Overland passes through the town.^[2] 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.