Traralgon is a major station on the Gippsland line and opened in 1877. It was a junction station for the Maffra line and also boasted a locomotive depot until it was abolished in 1997. A new station was built opposite the original building in 1995, however the original station was retained and remains in use a privately operated community arts centre.
The line to Traralgon was electrified in March 1956 for the briquette traffic from the brown coal mines in the Latrobe Valley. In 1987, the branch line from Traralgon to Cowwarr was closed in January, and in July the overhead was decommissioned. Traralgon in July 1987. In 2005, the line between Dandenong and Traralgon was upgraded as a part of the regional fast rail project.
Other information about Traralgon can be found at:
- Vicrail Stations, for more recent images of the station
- Line Diagrams and history at Andrew Waugh’s VRhistory site
- Current Information about Traralgon at VicSig
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Nice set of prints of Traralgon. Could I suggest a few changes – in the captions of the signal box I would say it was moved not demolished. The park is the home of the Traralgon & District Model Engineers who have a large miniature railway layout and it runs regularly. The codes are not morse but are Station Service (SS) telephone codes. Stations were contacted by the ringing on the party line of the code for the location you wanted. In the photo taken from the car sidings, the arm on the post at the right took railmotors (mostly) from the dead end siding to the main platform after they had backed out of the Maffra dock, the disc was for moves to the dock. The Maffra motor waited in the dock for the down pass to arrive and then after van goods were transferred, it backed out and ran into the platform to pick up passengers.although most passengers joined the motor in the dock hance the sidings were fitted with point locks and signalled for passenger moves.
Hi David – yes, I realised that box was moved after I saw an image on vicsig. I then remembered I had taken one of the box myself in 2009, and was included in the gallery a bit later after publishing. I’ll make those corrections shortly. With regards to the SS codes, were they just standard morse codes by another name?
No they were actually long and short rings rather than dots and dashes. In my part of the world Avenel station (where I live) was four short rings. On the little cards that was shown as four short dashes not dots.
Just looked at Morwell – it wasn’t really the interface to the SEC railway, the two railways were quite independant of each other and even at the Morwell Briquette siding the Interconnecting Railway was not part of the yard. Oh and Thorpdale has no “e”.