{"id":98161,"date":"2024-07-31T13:58:42","date_gmt":"2024-07-31T03:58:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=98161"},"modified":"2024-07-31T13:58:44","modified_gmt":"2024-07-31T03:58:44","slug":"bridgewater-railway-station-in-march-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=98161","title":{"rendered":"Bridgewater Railway Station in March 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Bridgewater Railway Station on the disused Eaglehawk- Inglewood Vic Line, Opened 1876 closed 2007 due to flood and bridge damage. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Another flood in 2011 caused more damage to track and ballast photo’s March 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Despite repeated approaches to the government to reopen this railway line for freight those requests have been ignored. Most recently V\/Line disconnected access to the line at Eaglehawk making it impossible to trains to access the line and grain storage silos along its length.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Photos are from Facebook and Ray Jackson<\/p>\n\n\n\n

More on Victoria’s poor track record on rail freight projects can be read at: Why does Vicroads permit road trains to use suburban streets in Melbourne?<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Another flood in 2011 caused more damage to track and ballast photo’s March 2021.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":98171,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5643,47,186],"tags":[8,8574],"class_list":["post-98161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-abandoned","category-rail-news","category-v-line","tag-victoria","tag-victrack"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t