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Moorabool Street

Level Crossing
Line: Geelong
Distance from Melbourne: 74.080km
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The first crossing of Moorabool Street was on the level, and was provided on the opening of the line to Winchelsea in 1876.

In 1913 the Melbourne Electric Supply Company (operator of the Geelong Tramways) begun to extend their tram line south along Moorabool Street. A level crossing of road, railway and tramway was unacceptable to the Victorian Railways, so the M.E.S.C. paid 1500 pounds towards the construction of a railway overbridge.

The railway was slewed to a temporary alignment to the north in April 1912, while the railway was raised on a new embankment and the road was lowered. The railway was then reinstated on the former alignment but over the new bridge in February 1913. The bridge remains in use today.

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