Riddells Creek railway station

Riddells Creek is a station on the Melbourne-Bendigo railway in Victoria, Australia serving the township of Riddells Creek.

Services

In the morning, trains to Melbourne depart from Platform 1, while Bendigo trains depart from Platform 2, this reverses in the afternoon. Long distance services to Swan Hill do not stop at Riddells Creek.

• Bendigo line - V/Line services to Southern Cross
• Bendigo line - V/Line services to Kyneton and Bendigo (1 service per day extends to Echuca)

History

The station opened with the line and was a signal box and block post using the telegraph instruments by 1879, with Winter’s instruments provided by 1890. A six lever frame was provided in 1927 for control of signals, until closed as a block post in 1993. The station was renamed ‘Riddell’ in 1904 as part of a policy to adopt short station names but was renamed to the full version in 1976.^[1]

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