Historical information

Korong Vale was a speck of a town with a population of just 238 people in 1981 and most of them would have been railway employees. It was the junction for the Sea Lake and Robinvale lines, during wheat season it was common to send relieving crews there to cope with the heavy traffic. Loaded wheat could be dispatched to either Bendigo where it would travel on to Melbourne and Geelong or it could go to Dunnoly, a large inland wheat storage facility.

It had two signalboxes, (A box controlled 2 sets of interlocked gates), loco depot and 8 track marshalling yard as well as the usual goods shed, livestock loading facilities and weighbridge. Perusal of the signal diagrams (link above) will show the extent of the yard tracks. It all ended in 1983 when practically everything you see in the following photos was demolished. About the only structure now remaining is the water tank on the down side of the Vernon street level crossing.

Physical description

DVD. David Bernoth Rail photographs - Six Photos

This item contains the following photos:

6847.2a Colour photo of two diesels Nos. 883 and 882 at a station

6847.2b Black and white photo of a sign at Korong Vale railway station.

6847.c Colour photo of Korong Vale A Signal Box and the level crossing gates

6847.2d Black and white photo of a loco van at Korong Vale

6847.2e Black and white photo of Workman's Vehicle at Korong Vale

6847.2f Black and white photo of the top front view of Engine 761