O'Shea and Bennett's Siding
Template:Short description Template:Use dmy dates Template:Use Australian English Script error: No such module "Infobox".Template:Template otherScript error: No such module "Parameter validation".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".Script error: No such module "check for deprecated parameters". O'Shea and Bennett's Siding was a railway siding on the Walhalla narrow gauge line in Gippsland, Victoria, Australia, named for the local sawmill company of William O'Shea and David Bennett. The siding opened in 1921. Located at the down end in a dead end was the White Rock Lime Company's original siding, later moved to Platina. It closed in 1941 under the name Ezard's Siding,[1] the name having been changed after the purchase of O'Shea and Bennett's sawmills by James Ezard in 1931.[2]
The station was situated at the down end of a deep cutting under Boola Rd (Walhalla-Tyers Rd), adjacent to the intersection with the main Walhalla Rd. After the closure of the railway in 1954, the cutting was used as a landfill for the local town's garbage dump.[3]
The Walhalla Goldfields Railway are planning in the long term to rebuild from Thomson to Erica, but as the cutting would need to be re-excavated, the current plan is for an intermediate station to be built at the site of O'Shea and Bennett's Siding.[4]
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- ↑ Photos from the Walhalla railway
- ↑ Walhalla Golfields Railway - History, accessed 15 January 2012
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