Emerald railway station

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Emerald railway station is situated on the Puffing Billy Railway in Victoria, Australia. It was opened with the Railway on 18 December 1900 and comprised a platform track and a loop siding. When the line was reopened from Menzies Creek by the Puffing Billy Preservation Society the intent had been to

have Lakeside, not Emerald, as the terminus and so water tanks had been provided at the former. However, trains only ran as far as Emerald between 1965 and 1975, and engines needed to refill their water tanks before returning to Belgrave. The short-term solution was to make use of wagon 149NQ, which had been fitted with a 2,000 imp gal (9,100 L) water tank and could be refilled by the Emerald Rural Fire Brigade as required. Later, a well was bored out and connected to a 5,000 imp gal (23,000 L) water tank, which refilled at a rate of about 100 imp gal (450 L) per hour. In 1967 a new carriage workshop was opened behind the former goods yard. In preservation the station building has been judged "the most intact on the line, with at least part of the original building surviving in its original location". The current station building incorporates the original timber structure with gabled corrugated...

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