Gembrook


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Upper Ferntree Gully to Gembrook line

Location: Heritage (Original) Station    Melways 189 G9

Location: New Station    Melways 189 G10

Gembrook was the original terminus of the line. Puffing Billy re-opened to Gembrook on the 18th of October 1998.

Current yard diagram

The VR Weekly Notices only have one specific reference to Gembrook. The most glaring omission in over 100 years of Weekly Notices is that they omitted the opening of the Gembrook Line.

15/3/1927
#1 rd. extended 200' at down end a/c Mr. Russell. (As far as I can tell the Gembrook Russell family is not related to me.

Click this graphic for yard details. yard diagram

Gembrook station has been rebuilt as part of the Lakeside-Gembrook restoration. Puffing Billy wanted to have a station closer to the center of the town, hence the new station built beside the site of the original "Siberia" siding. The historic platform is the original.

This portion of a map shows Russell's tramway.


ImperialMetric
Distance from Upper Ferntree Gully18 m 17.7 ch29.32 km
Distance from Belgrave (PB)14 m 69 ch23.91 km
Altitude (above Sea Level).1020'310.90 m

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Created: 3/01/1997 Last update: 23/12/2009
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