Rail Geelong - hopefully everything you ever wanted to know about the history of the railways of Geelong and District, and then some.
Currently detailed histories are in place for the Melbourne - Geelong - Warrnambool, Geelong - Ballarat, Maribyrnong River Line, Newport Power Station, Altona, Fyansford, Cunningham Pier, Queenscliff, Geelong Racecourse, and Mortlake railway lines. Histories of the locations on the lines themselves have also been completed in various levels of detail.
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Recent Updates
| February 10, 2010 | I have now created a RSS feed of recent changes to the site - it is available right here, the computer gurus among you can subscribe to it, and be informed when changes are made. I have also made available feeds for the image gallery:
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| December 21, 2009 | After another round of issues with the site that I found over the weekend, I have now got it back online. This time I have updated the code to the latest version, instead of just restoring from clean backups. |
| December 10, 2009 | I noticed this evening that some Malware had been inserted into my site's code, which then attempted to exploit holes in visitors web browsers to install nasties onto their computers. I took the site offline for a few hours to restore from backups, and now it is all clean again. Firefox or Google may still flag the site as a 'suspected attack site' but the issue has been fixed. |
| November 10, 2009 | I think this is the first round of updates I have done to the site since April 2008 (about 18 months ago!)
Changes include:
The Geelong-Ballarat line is very close to being complete.
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| February 23, 2009 | On February 22, 2009 Winchelsea was decommissioned as a block point, the crossing loop having been removed some months earlier. The up and down semaphore home signals were removed, and the up and down departure colour light signals were converted to LED automatic signals. Photos of the work are here. |
Complete List...
Updated content
| November 10, 2009 |
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North Melbourne Junction |
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Franklin Street Signal Box |
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Lineguide |
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Maribyrnong River Line |
| November 9, 2009 |
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Phosphate Works |
| November 9, 2009 |
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Phosphate Sidings |
| November 7, 2009 |
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Apex Quarries |
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Midway Siding |
| November 6, 2009 |
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Geelong Station |
| September 11, 2009 |
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Barwon River / Breakwater Road |
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Waurn Ponds Creek |
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Updated galleries
December 21, 2009 13:09 PM |
November 24, 2009 08:32 AM |
January 10, 2009 08:04 AM |
January 10, 2009 07:31 AM |
January 09, 2009 11:12 AM |
January 09, 2009 13:38 PM |
Complete List...
Coming Soon...
Melbourne to Geelong and on to Warrnambool has now been covered, along with as well the various branches around Melbourne and Geelong. Geelong to Ballarat is currently in the works, with the Gheringhap to Maroona and Moriac to Wensleydale lines also partly researched.