Barry Beach railway line

Barry Beach was a railway branch line, it opened on 2 April 1969 to service the oil fields in Bass Strait.^[1] Barry Beach operated until the closure of the South Gippsland line in 1992. The line was then later dismantled in 1994. The oil fields in Bass Strait are still active and ships have taken over the oil train. If the Leongatha Railway is ever reopened, there remains the possibility of restoring the line to Foster, Yarram and Barry Beach in the future.

The terminus was the southern-most mainland section of any of Australia's linked railway tracks. The branch line to Lavers Hill and Crowes, at the Melba Gully Road, went slightly further south, but did not link to the mainline Victorian network as it was a narrower gauge.

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