Clunes railway station

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Clunes
Station statistics
Coordinates 37°18′11″S 143°46′53″E / 37.30306°S 143.78139°E / -37.30306; 143.78139Coordinates: 37°18′11″S 143°46′53″E / 37.30306°S 143.78139°E / -37.30306; 143.78139
Platforms 1
Tracks 1
Other information
Opened 1874
Station code CLU
Owned by VicTrack
Operator V/Line
Myki zone 11
Station status Unmanned
Melway map Link
Services
Preceding station   V/Line   Following station
Creswick
 Ballarat line
Talbot
toward Maryborough
Location
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Clunes is a railway station in the township of Clunes, Victoria, Australia. The station was opened in 1874, and was closed in 1993 when passenger services discontinued on the Mildura Line. Since that time the station has been left empty, with the station building and platform still in place. It re-opened, along with the restoration of passenger services to Maryborough, in November 2011.[1]

The station, along with parts of the main street, were famously used in the film Mad Max when the bikie crew pick up the Nightrider's coffin. Reg Evans who played the Station Master in this scene was killed in the Black Saturday bushfires of 2009.

The return of passenger services to Maryborough was announced in December 2008 as part of a $50 million project,[2] but as recently as October 2009 the State Government had stated there would be no station at Clunes, the only intermediate stop being at Creswick.[3][4]

Reopening

In June 2010 it was announced that Clunes would be included as a stop on the re-opened railway line, when V/Line services were extended from Ballarat to Maryborough. The works to reopen the station cost $7 million.[1] In March 2010 a new siding 140 metres in length was provided opposite the platform, to be used to stable track machines.[5][6] The refurbished station was reopened for passenger railway purposes in December 2011, by Transport Minister Terry Mulder.

  • Clunes station house

  • Station sign

Services

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 "READY FOR TOMORROW: $19 MILLION TO RETURN PASSENGER RAIL TO CLUNES AND IMPROVE NORTH-WEST FREIGHT RAIL LINKS". Media Release: Premier of Victoria. www.premier.vic.gov.au. June 2010. Retrieved 15 June 2010. 
  2. ↑ "PASSENGER RAIL SERVICES TO RETURN TO MARYBOROUGH". Media Release: Premier of Victoria. www.premier.vic.gov.au. 11 December 2008. Retrieved 15 June 2010. 
  3. ↑ KIM STEPHENS (7 October 2009). "Call to explain Clunes' omission from rail plan". The Courier. www.thecourier.com.au. Retrieved 15 June 2010. 
  4. ↑ EMMA BROWN (11 October 2009). "No plans for Clunes train". The Courier. www.thecourier.com.au. Retrieved 15 June 2010. 
  5. ↑ "Brand new set of points at Clunes - to create a new works siding". Wongm's Rail Gallery. railgallery.wongm.com. 20 February 2010. Retrieved 15 June 2010. 
  6. ↑ "Signalling and Infrastructure". Railway Digest (Australian Railway Historical Society (NSW Division)): page 56. May 2010. 

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