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	Belgrave railway station, Melbourne - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Belgrave is the terminus of the Belgrave railway line in Melbourne, Australia.
		The Belgrave suburban station is right next to the Puffing Billy Belgrave station.
		The station is a Premium Station, meaning that it is staffed from first to last train.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Belgrave_railway_station,_Melbourne (96 words)

	Belgrave - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Charles Belgrave, a British adviser to the rulers of Bahrain from 1926 to 1957
		This is a disambiguation page: a list of articles associated with the same title.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Belgrave (87 words)

	Puffing Billy Railway, Melbourne
		Belgrave (Puffing Billy station), adjacent to the Belgrave suburban station
		It originally ran from Upper Ferntree Gully station (now a suburban station on the broad gauge Belgrave line); it now begins at the Belgrave narrow gauge station, adjacent to the Belgrave broad gauge station.
		Puffing Billy is a narrow gauge (2'6") steam railway in the Dandenong Ranges near Melbourne, Australia.
	www.bidprobe.com /en/wikipedia/p/pu/puffing_billy_railway__melbourne.html (122 words)

	Articles - Narrow gauge
		Separate metre-gauge railways are operated by the FGC (Ferrocarrils de la Generalitat de Catalunya, Catalan regional government railways) from Barcelona to Manresa and Igualada, the FGV (Ferrocarrils de la Generalitat Valenciana, Valencian regional government railways) around the city of Valencia, and the SFM (Serveis Ferroviaris de Mallorca) on the island of Majorca.
		Narrow-gauge railways are railroads (railways) where the distance between the two parallel rails constituting the railway track (the track gauge) is less than the 1435 mm (4 ft 8.5 in) of standard-gauge railroads.
		The Isle of Man Steam Railway to the southwest is operated largely as a tourist attraction but the Manx Electric Railway to the northeast is a commercially operated railway system though its operation is closer to that of a tramway than a railway and includes street running sections at each end.
	www.workze.com /articles/Narrow_gauge (6472 words)

	City Loop, Melbourne - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Parliament station was opened on January 22 1983, the Northern tunnel on January 7 or January 14, 1985 (with limited services) and Flagstaff station on May 27 1985.
		Melbourne's 16 radial suburban railway lines feed into the Loop at its northwestern and southeastern corners.
		During the excavation of Museum station, La Trobe Street and its tram tracks were temporarily relocated to the south onto what is now the Melbourne Central shopping centre.
	www.objectsspace.com /encyclopedia/index.php/City_Loop,_Melbourne (1094 words)

	Melbourne
		Melbourne is unique in having five winegrowing regions within an hour and a half of the city, and there are numerous tours to visit one of the many vineyards in the Yarra Valley, Mornington Peninsula or the burgeoning winegrowing region of Geelong, where world-class Chardonnay, Pinot Noir and Cabernet Sauvignon are produced.
		Melbourne is a multicultural city with a vibrant cultural life and is regarded as one of the culinary, sporting and shopping capitals of Australia, with a wide selection of museums, art galleries, theatres and festivals.
		Melbourne, the gateway to Victoria, is an eclectic city of casual elegance, characterised by an interesting blend of modern and Victorian architecture, attractive parks and lush ornamental gardens.
	www.pco.com.au /boys2005/melbourne.htm (671 words)

	Home - Heathmont railway station, Melbourne
		Stations are often sited where a road crosses the railway: unless the crossing is a level crossing, the road and railway will be at different levels.
		Many train stations — unsurprisingly — date from the 19th century and reflect the architecture of the time, grand in scale and size, lending prestige to the city as well as to railway operations.
		The first railway stations in the modern sense were on the Liverpool and Manchester Railway, opened in 1830.
	heathmont.railway.station.melbourne.en.infoax.org (2780 words)

	Belgrave railway line, Melbourne
		The line was electrified & converted to broad gauge between Upper Ferntree Gully and Belgrave, with the track duplicated to Upwey, and then single from Upwey to Belgrave - Upwey and Belgrave both have an island double-platform, while Tecoma between them has a single platform.
		Belgrave station is next to Puffing Billy station from where the narrow gauge trains depart.
		The Belgrave railway line is a broad gauge electric suburban railway in Melbourne, Australia.
	en.mcfly.org /Belgrave_railway_line,_Melbourne (170 words)

	Flinders Street Railway Station - Local Trivia - Reference - Melbourne Online - Only Melbourne
		Eleven through platforms were provided at the station on its completion in 1910 and were vastly different from the original platforms which sported semi-circular verandahs terminated by timber valances and at the west end 'train sheds', embracing both platforms and tracks.
		The clocks at the main entrance of the station were part of the original design plans, and remain in almost the same place as they did in the early years of construction.
		Flinders Street Station has emerged as a symbol of Victoria's capital city and is an institution in the daily routine of nearly a quarter of a million people.
	www.onlymelbourne.com.au /melbourne_details.php?id=5371 (1677 words)

	wikien.info: Main_Page : B/BE/BEL
		Belgrave railway station is situated in Belgrave, a suburb of Melbourne in the Australian state of Victoria.
		Belgrave (Puffing Billy) railway station is situated in Belgrave, a suburb of Melbourne in the Australian state of Victoria.
		Belgrave may be: Belgrave, England a suburb of Leicester.Belgrave, Victoria a suburb of Melbourne, Australia.Belgrave railway line, MelbourneBelgrave railway station, Melbourne This is a [disambiguationdisambiguation] page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might othe..
	www.wikien.info /browse.php?title=B/BE/BEL (10713 words)

	Boronia railway station, Melbourne
		Boronia railway station has two platforms: the first one going to Flinders Street, and the second going to Belgrave.
		Boronia railway station is in the city of Boronia.
		It is 32.4 kilometres east from Flinders Street Station, it has 470 parking spaces and 20 bicycle parking spaces.
	www.knowledgefun.com /book/b/bo/boronia_railway_station__melbourne.html (125 words)

	Selby, Victoria
		The provision of a station on the narrow-gauge railway in 1901 required the giving of a name.
		Selby's proximity to Belgrave ultimately attracted residential subdivisions, and a primary school was built in 1951.
		The land around Selby is particularly hilly, as evidenced by the curves in both the road and the railway.
	www.arts.monash.edu.au /ncas/multimedia/gazetteer/list/selby.html (247 words)

	Victoria Attractions Australia
		Puffing Billy Railway was opened in December 1900 to take travellers from Upper Ferntree gully to Gembrook.
		QV is located in Melbourne CBD and is contained in the block between the streets of Swanson, Russell, Lonsdale, and Little Lonsdale.
		Melbourne's population of 3.6 million people continues to climb each year.
	touring-australia.com /attractions/victoria/victoria.htm (1520 words)

	Belgrave railway station, Melbourne - TheBestLinks.com - TheBestLinks.com:Find or fix a stub, TheBestLinks.com:Perfect stub article, List of Melbourne railway stations, Tecoma railway station, ...
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	www.thebestlinks.com /Belgrave_railway_station__2C___Melbourne.html (77 words)

	Walkabout - Belgrave
		Located only 40 km east of Melbourne, Belgrave is a pleasant commuter township located in the Dandenong Ranges at an altitude of 227 m.
		To give you some idea, the cost of the longest trip (from Belgrave to Gembrook and return), on June 1, 2002, was $36.50 for adults, $16.50 for ages 4-16 inclusive, $29.50 for students and pensioners and under 4s are free if they do not occupy a seat.
		The Belgrave Art Stockade, at 64-68 Monbulk Rd, is the winner of a Merit Award from Dandenong Ranges Tourism.
	www.walkabout.com.au /locations/VICBelgrave.shtml (1634 words)

	Miscellaneous Tips - Melbourne Travel Guide - VirtualTourist.com
		Flinders Street Station is the main terminal for Melbourne's vast network of suburban rail services, daily transporting the heavy influx of commuters to and from the city.
		Melbourne is a funky little town, lots of cafes to languish in, excellent for shopping and you have to go to the huge Victoria markets which sells everything.
		Melbourne is an beautifull city with beautifull architecture, beautifull botanical gardens and a giant zoo.
	www.virtualtourist.com /travel/Australia_and_Oceania/Australia/State_of_Victoria/Melbourne-1873103/General_Tips-Melbourne-MISC-R-15.html (1131 words)

	Tourist Sites - World
		Welsh Highland Railway: 2ft gauge railway preserving the heritage of the Welsh Highland Railway and North Wales Narrow Gauge Railways.
		Mid Norfolk Railway: The Trust has undertaken a caretaking role on the southern part of the branch carrying out maintenance on the buildings and rail infrastructure, all of which had been neglected since the withdrawal of freight on the branch in 1989.
		The present Lynton and Barnstaple Railway Company was formed in 1993 by the members of the Lynton and Barnstaple Railway Association, now a Trust, with the aim of reconstructing as much as possible of this once famous narrow gauge railway.
	www.cwrr.com /nmra/Touristb-World.html (2265 words)

	Melbourne Tour and Excursions Guide - TravelPuppy.com
		The Dandenongs can be reached in an hour from Melbourne by car or by taking a train to Belgrave Station at the end of the Melbourne metropolitan line and then by Puffing Billy Steam Railway (telephone: (03) 9754 6800) through forests and fern gullies to Emerald Lake Park.
		Highlights include The Penguin Parade (telephone: (03) 5956 8300), which takes place nightly at sunset, when the world’s smallest penguins emerge from the sea and waddle up the beach to their burrows for the night.
		The hills of the Dandenong Ranges, east of Melbourne, are covered in vineyards, banks of flowers and particularly Australian gum trees.
	travelpuppy.com /australia/melbourne/tours-excursion.htm (797 words)

	The world's top flinders street station websites
		This first station was completed in 1854 and was officially opened on September 12 by the Lieutenant-Governor Sir Charles Hotham.
		One of the original platform verandahs from the Melbourne Terminus building was dismantled and re-erected at Hawthorn station, in the inner-eastern suburbs.
		In 1882 the decision was made by the government to build a new central passenger station to replace the existing ad-hoc construction.
	www.websbiggest.com /wiki-article-tab.cfm/flinders_street_station (543 words)

	Fanthology '87: Trains in the Distance
		The Melbourne suburb of Hawthorn, for instance, was built around its railway station.
		Whatever happens to those model railways, they already have given their special pleasure, not because of what they are, but because of the way they attached themselves to my imagination.
		Cars have made railways unprofitable in Victoria, and now politicians and bureaucrats spend their nights tossing and turning, trying to think up acceptable ways to kill the railway system.
	www.geocities.com /Athens/8720/trains.htm (2851 words)

	Awesome Australia: A Rail Traveler's Dream Australia Great Barrier Reef Melbourne trams Indian Pacific Ghan Sydney rail train rail museum puffing billy kakadu national park the sunlander ayers rock
		At Belgrave Station, you will be taken on a private tour of the workshops prior to boarding the Puffing Billy train to Gembrook.
		The railway station, the Sydney Harbor Bridge museum, a behind-the-scenes tour of the Opera House, the many regional trains and ferries——there’s plenty to explore on your own today.
		Puffing Billy is Australia’s oldest steam railway and one of the finest preserved steam railways in the world.
	www.infohub.com /travel/sit/sit_pages/15419.html (1021 words)

	Ultramaroon rises again - Saturday, April 22, 2006 Entries
		Toorak is THE snob suburb of Melbourne but that wasn't the source of my delight; nope, the source of the delight was that, even though I drove there, I had the opportunity to walk through a classic Melbourne Railway Station.
		From that point to Kensington South Station and then across Moonee Ponds Creek and through the railway yards to North Melbourne Station.
		It was then a pleasure, and still is when I'm in Melbourne, to travel from Footscray Station over the Maribyrnong River, high above the flood plain on the embankment, looking down on the old red brick buildings stained black from smog as we cross Kensington Road.
	blogs.wdevs.com /ultramaroon/archive/2006/04/22.aspx (476 words)

	Danedong Ranges
		The Puffing Billy Station is about five minutes walk from Belgrave Railway Station (suburban trains).
		Less than an hours drive from Melbourne the Dandenong Ranges is one of the major tourist areas in Victoria.
		The steam train has run more or less continuously since the early twentieth century, though its operation now depends on dedicated volunteers; on total fire ban days, diesel locomotives are used.
	www.pacificislandtravel.com /australia/victoria/danedongranges.asp (506 words)

	Puffing Billy Railway Melbourne Australia
		The railway was originally used as a tool to try and connect up some of the remote settlements in the area; however, after a landslide in 1953, the line was closed, as it had become un-economic to operate.
		If you look at the style of the two railways they are clearly similar, and of course the locos are of the same pattern.
		I visited the railway in November 2002 on Melbourne Cup day thinking that the railway would be fairly quiet.
	www.mullrail.co.uk /puffingbilly (469 words)

	Melbourne Bushwalkers Walk Preview
		We will be meeting at the Belgrave station at 9.30am ready to start cycling.
		Although longer than my usual rides, there are a number of railway stations on the Gardner’s Creek section that can reduce the distance.
		There is a lovely coffee spot on the ‘round-a-bout’ corner near the station.
	www.melbournebushwalkers.org.au /photogallery/Belgrave_City_Cycling_04-06-2005/Preview_Cycle_June-04-2005.htm (326 words)

	Emerald Lake Park - Where is Emerald Lake Park
		Emerald Lake Park is situated in the township of Emerald, Victoria.
		It is approximately a one hour drive East from Melbourne City.
		The park can be found by using the Melways directory with map 127 and reference J4.
	www.emeraldlakepark.com.au /Page/PagePrint.asp?Page_Id=2 (312 words)

	Steam train links by Steam Train Artist
		The 15 inch gauge Bush Mill tourist railway operated in Tasmania as part of a major tourist attraction from 1986 until its closure in 2004.
		An operating railway museum recreating various Victorian Railways branch line activities "just as they used to be".
		All three railway gauges used in Australia are represented.
	www.steamtrainartist.com /steam_train_links.html (425 words)

	The Melbourne Bushies - fifty years along the track (1940-90)
		So we walked alongside the railway line back to the unattended station at Macedon where we collected wood and in the waiting room lit a fire that warmed us while we waited for the train home.
		The leader, Barry Short, was waiting under the clocks at Hinders Street Station to catch an electric train to Belgrave for a lyrebird walk in Sherbrooke Forest.
		From here we walked through the Black Forest to Woodend Station.
	www.melbournebushwalkers.org.au /history/MBW_history_101.htm (368 words)

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