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Geelong Racecourse Station

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Geelong Racecourse is a station where normal services do not stop, only race specials for the place of the same name. It has a single earthen platform to the east of the main line, located on a loop siding with hand operated points.

The present Geelong Racecourse and Showgrounds were opened in 1907, with the Showgrounds relocated from East Geelong, and the Racecourse from Marshaltown, where the Geelong Racecourse branch line ran from Marshall station.

The railway platform was opened on January 1, 1911 and was initially took the name Geelong Showgrounds, after the platform on the Queenscliff line. The platform was extended by 250 ft shortly after 1913, and was renamed Geelong Racecourse on May 3, 1915. From 1918 the station could switch in to the South Geelong - Moriac Electric Staff section. The 1929 track chart of the line showed the platform on a loop siding off the main line, as well as two dead end sidings at the down end, these were removed by 1942. The electric staff facilities were removed in 1956, the up and down home signals were abolished in June 1962.

In recently years it was only used for the Geelong Cup, but has not been used since the 2005 event. There was once a V/Line orange station sign and a small safeworking hut, but they have been stolen and burnt down respectively. The points were spiked for the mainline in 2005.

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Safeworking

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Diagrams

NOTE: Diagrams are not to scale.

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Photos

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Station 'building'	Up end points	The shed and V/line orange station sign
Down end points	Overview of the station	The shed yet again
Overview of the station

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Sources

• http://www.vrhistory.com/ - Andrew Waugh
• Investigator - September 1978
• Weekly Notice Extracts - Alan Jungwirth and Keith Lambert