New Updates!
- The Geelong line details and history is now completed from Newport all the way into the city, as are all the stations on the way.
- The Altona branch is now covered, including the Williamstown Racecourse station.
- Suburban freight lines have also been added - the Maribyrnong River, and Power Station and Oil Lines (and need to be expanded)
- Back at the Geelong end, the Geelong Racecourse branch has been added, including the sewer and farm tramways built on the alignment of the line after closure.
- The Fyansford line has been expanded, with more details on the narrow gauge Australian Portland Cement Railway and the Cement Works themselves.
- The backend code has been altered so the URLs to everything are much cleaner http://www.railgeelong.com/lineguide/geelong/diagram instead of http://www.railgeelong.com/lineguide.php?line=geelong§ion=diagram - but the old ones still work.
- You can now look up the recently updated locations, and browse the recently uploaded photos.
Busted URLs
Photo Gallery
Aerial Explorer Fixed
Site Live
It is one more week until the Geelong Line turns 150 years old, and this site is now live to the public.
It is a history of the railways of the Geelong Region - the Geelong, Queensclliff, Fyansford, and Cunningham Pier lines, as well as every location on them.
Each rail line has a writeup, tables of important events, as well as track and safeworking system diagrams for each and every year. As well as that, each location has a writeup, important events listed, and track diagrams. Finally, there is a Google Map mashup that overlays all locations against satellite and map imagery.
I hope you all find something interesting - there are months of coding and research behind it. :)
And on a side note, I would like to thank Andrew Waugh for allowing me to use his station histories data, and Paul and Kathleen Kenny for the Queenscliff line data.