| Yarra Junction Victoria |
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| Population: | 1740 (2006)[1] | ||||||||||||
| Postcode: | 3797 | ||||||||||||
| Elevation: | 152 m (499 ft) | ||||||||||||
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| LGA: | Shire of Yarra Ranges | ||||||||||||
| State District: | Gembrook | ||||||||||||
| Federal Division: | McEwen | ||||||||||||
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Yarra Junction is a town in Victoria, Australia, 55 km (34 mi) east from Melbourne's central business district. It sits at the junction of the Yarra and Little Yarra Rivers. Its Local Government Area is the Shire of Yarra Ranges. At the 2006 Census, Yarra Junction had a population of 1740.
The Post Office opened on 20 November 1901, a week after the railway arrived.[2]
Yarra Junction was the junction station for the Powelltown Tramway, a three foot gauge line, between 1913 and 1945.
It has four schools, Upper Yarra Secondary College, Yarra Junction Primary School, St Joseph's Primary School and the Little Yarra Steiner School.
In addition to these schools, there is also a bush campus for Caulfield Grammar School. The Yarra Junction Campus was established in 1949 and it was the first of its kind in Australia.
The town has an Australian Rules football team competing in the Yarra Valley Mountain District Football League. Its most famous product was former Richmond premiership ruckman Jack Dyer, also known as Captain Blood, who grew up in the town before moving to Melbourne in his late teens for school.
Yarra Junction railway station