COR Platform Station
Station
Line: Geelong and Warrnambool
Distance from Melbourne: 15.688 km
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Opened: May 16, 1927
Closed: October 22, 1967
Line: Geelong and Warrnambool
Distance from Melbourne: 15.688 km
Track Diagram: View
Google Maps: Satellite / Map
Opened: May 16, 1927
Closed: October 22, 1967
The platform was opened to serve workers at the adjacent Commonwealth Oil Refinery works on August 6, 1927. It was closed in October 1959, but another source says that the platform was not abolished until October 1967, this coincidentally being when the line through it was duplicated.
Events
May 16, 1927 | Opened |
January 26, 1958 | Renamed B.P. Platform |
October 22, 1967 | Closed |
Line Opened
June 25, 1857 | Line officially opened between Geelong and at temporary terminus at Greenwich. A ferry was used the complete the journey to Melbourne |
October 3, 1857 | Temporary Greenwich terminal and stub line closed. Geelong line now connected to the partially completed Williamstown line. A ferry complete the journey from Williamstown to Melbourne |
January 17, 1859 | Williamstown line finally completed to Melbourne. Geelong trains can now operate direct to Spencer Street Station |
Track Amplified
October 22, 1967 | Line duplicated Altona Junction to Laverton |
Diagrams
NOTE: Diagrams are not to scale.