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Serviceton railway line

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The Serviceton railway line (also known as the Western line) is a railway serving the west of Victoria, Australia that links the state capital of Melbourne to the cities of Ballarat and Ararat, and once extended to the South Australian border as part of the Melbourne–Adelaide railway. [1]

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Adelaide

Adelaide is the capital city of the state of South Australia, and the fifth-most populous city of Australia.

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Adelaide railway station

Adelaide railway station is the central terminus of the Adelaide Metro railway system.

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Ararat railway station

Ararat railway station is located on the Serviceton and Western standard gauge lines, in Victoria, Australia.

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Ararat, Victoria

Ararat is a city in south-west Victoria, Australia, about west of Melbourne, on the Western Highway on the eastern slopes of the Ararat Hills and Cemetery Creek valley between Victoria's Western District and the Wimmera.

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Australia

Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a sovereign country comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania and numerous smaller islands.

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Bacchus Marsh railway station

Bacchus Marsh railway station is located on the Serviceton line, in Victoria, Australia.

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Ballan, Victoria

Ballan is a small town in the state of Victoria, Australia located on the Werribee River, northwest of Melbourne.

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Ballarat

Ballarat is a city located on the Yarrowee River in the Central Highlands of Victoria, Australia.

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Ballarat railway station

Ballarat railway station is located on the Serviceton line in Victoria, Australia.

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Ballarat V/Line rail service

The Ballarat V/Line rail service is a regional passenger rail service operated by V/Line in Victoria, Australia.

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Balmoral, Victoria

Balmoral is a township in the Shire of Southern Grampians in the Western District of Victoria, Australia.

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Beaufort, Victoria

Beaufort is a town in Victoria, Australia.

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Beulah, Victoria

Beulah is a town in the southern Mallee region of Victoria, Australia.

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Broad-gauge railway

A broad-gauge railway is a railway with a track gauge broader than the standard-gauge railways.

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Caroline Springs railway station

Caroline Springs railway station is a railway station on the Serviceton line in Victoria, Australia.

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Cavendish, Victoria

Cavendish is a township in the Shire of Southern Grampians in the Western District of Victoria, Australia on the Wannon River.

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Concrete sleeper

A concrete sleeper is a type of railway sleeper made out of steel reinforced concrete.

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Cressy, Victoria

Cressy is a country town in Victoria, Australia, about 38 km north of Colac on the Ballarat road.

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Dimboola railway station

Dimboola railway station is located on the Western standard gauge line in Victoria, Australia.

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Firewood

Firewood is any wooden material that is gathered and used for fuel.

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Geelong

Geelong is a port city located on Corio Bay and the Barwon River, in the state of Victoria, Australia.Geelong is south-west of the state capital, Melbourne.

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Geelong–Ballarat railway line

The Geelong–Ballarat railway line is a broad-gauge railway in western Victoria, Australia between the cities of Geelong and Ballarat.

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Gheringhap, Victoria

Gheringhap is a rural township near Geelong, Victoria, Australia, located approximately 83 km southwest of Melbourne, between Geelong and Meredith on the Midland Highway.

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GrainCorp

GrainCorp Limited is a public company listed on the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) in Australia.

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Grampians National Park

The Grampians National Park (also Gariwerd), commonly referred to as The Grampians, is a national park located in the Grampians region of Victoria, Australia.

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Hamilton railway station, Victoria

Hamilton is a railway station located on the Ararat - Portland railway in the town of Hamilton, Victoria, Australia.

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Heywood railway station, Victoria

Heywood railway station is a disused station on the Portland railway line in the town of Heywood, in the state of Victoria, Australia.

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Hopetoun, Victoria

Hopetoun is a town which serves as the major service centre for the Southern Mallee area of Victoria, Australia.

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Horsham railway station, Victoria

Horsham railway station is located on the Western standard gauge line in Victoria, Australia.

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Jeff Kennett

Jeffrey Gibb Kennett AC (born 2 March 1948) is a former Australian politician who was the 43rd Premier of Victoria between 1992 and 1999 and a current media commentator.

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Jeparit

Jeparit is situated on the Wimmera River in Western Victoria, Australia, north west of Melbourne.

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Keswick railway station

Keswick railway station was situated on the Cockermouth, Keswick and Penrith Railway between Penrith and Cockermouth in Cumbria, England.

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Linton, Victoria

Linton is a town in Victoria, Australia, off Glenelg Highway.

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Marnoo, Victoria

Marnoo is a town in the Wimmera region of Victoria, Australia.

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Maroona railway station

Maroona is the junction station between what is the main western railway line and the branch line to Portland, Victoria, Australia.

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Melbourne

Melbourne is the state capital of Victoria and the second-most populous city in Australia and Oceania.

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Melbourne–Adelaide rail corridor

| The Melbourne–Adelaide rail corridor is a standard gauge railway corridor that runs between the cities of Melbourne, Victoria and Adelaide, South Australia.

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Melton railway line

The Melton railway line is the greater-metropolitan section of the Ballarat line in Victoria, Australia.

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Melton railway station

Melton railway station is on the East Suffolk Line in the east of England, serving the village of Melton, Suffolk.

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Metro Trains Melbourne

Metro Trains Melbourne, known colloquially as simply Metro, is the franchised operator of the suburban railway network in Melbourne, Australia.

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Mildura railway line

The Mildura railway line is a railway line in Victoria, Australia.

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Moorabool River

The Moorabool River is a river in Victoria, Australia that runs past several small towns and areas such as Meredith, Anakie, and Staughton Vale (north-west of Geelong).

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Murtoa, Victoria

Murtoa is a wheat district town in Victoria, Australia, situated around Lake Marma on the Wimmera Highway, north-west of the state capital, Melbourne.

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Myki

myki is a reloadable contactless smartcard ticketing system used on public transport in Victoria, Australia.

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Natimuk

Natimuk is a town in Western Victoria, Australia.

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Newtown, Victoria

Newtown is an inner western suburb of Geelong, Victoria, Australia.

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North Melbourne railway station

North Melbourne railway station is located on the northern edge of the central business district of Melbourne, Australia.

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North Shore railway station

North Shore railway station is located on the Port Fairy line, in Victoria, Australia, and serves the northern Geelong suburbs of North Shore and Norlane.

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One Nation (infrastructure)

One Nation was an Australian Government program of infrastructure development carried out under the Keating Government from 1991 to 1996.

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Pacific National

Pacific National is one of Australia's largest rail freight businesses.

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Patchewollock

Patchewollock is a town in north-west Victoria, Australia.

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Perth

Perth is the capital and largest city of the Australian state of Western Australia.

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Portland railway line

The Portland railway line is a railway line in south-western Victoria, Australia.

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Rail freight transport

Rail freight transport is the use of railroads and trains to transport cargo as opposed to human passengers.

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Railway signalling

Railway signalling is a system used to direct railway traffic and keep trains clear of each other at all times.

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Rainbow, Victoria

Rainbow is a town in north west Victoria, Australia, from Melbourne.

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Redan, Victoria

Redan is an inner suburb of Ballarat, Victoria, Australia immediately south of Ballarat Central.

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Regional Fast Rail project

The Regional Fast Rail project (or RFR project) was a rail transport project undertaken by the State Government of Victoria, Australia, between 2000 and 2006 aimed at improving rail services on the Victorian regional railway network (operated by V/Line), specifically to reduce travel times, enhance service frequency and safety.

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Regional Rail Link

The Regional Rail Link (RRL) was a project to build a 47.5 kilometre length of railway through the western suburbs of Melbourne, Victoria, the main aim of which was to separate regional V/Line Ballarat, Bendigo and Geelong services from the electrified Melbourne suburban services, thereby increasing rail capacity and reliability.

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Rupanyup

Rupanyup is a small town in rural Victoria, Australia.

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Serviceton railway station

Serviceton railway station is located on the Western standard gauge line in Victoria, Australia.

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Single-track railway

A single-track railway is a railway where trains traveling in both directions share the same track.

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Skipton, Victoria

Skipton is a town in the Western District of Victoria, Australia.

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South Australia–Victoria border dispute

The border between the Australian state of South Australia and what is today the State of Victoria was established in 1836 by imperial letters patent "as the 141st degree meridian of longitude east of Greenwich".

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South Australian Railways

South Australian Railways was the statutory corporation through which the Government of South Australia built and operated railways in South Australia from 1854 until March 1978, when its non-urban railways were incorporated into Australian National, and its Adelaide urban lines were transferred to the State Transport Authority.

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Standard-gauge railway

A standard-gauge railway is a railway with a track gauge of.

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Stawell, Victoria

Stawell (pronounced /stɔːl/, "Stawl"), is an Australian town in the Wimmera region of Victoria west-north-west of the state capital, Melbourne.

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Sunbury railway line

The Sunbury railway line is a suburban electric railway in Melbourne, Australia.

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Sunbury railway station, Melbourne

Sunbury railway station is located on the Bendigo line, in Victoria, Australia.

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Swordfishtrombones

Swordfishtrombones is the seventh studio album by American singer-songwriter Tom Waits, released in September 1983.

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The Overland

The Overland is an Australian passenger train service between Melbourne and Adelaide.

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Tim Fischer

Timothy Andrew Fischer, AC (born 3 May 1946), is a former Australian politician and diplomat who served as leader of the National Party from 1990 to 1999.

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Tom Waits

Thomas Alan Waits (born December 7, 1949) is an American singer-songwriter, musician, composer and actor.

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Track ballast

Track ballast forms the trackbed upon which railroad ties (sleepers) are laid.

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Train

A train is a form of transport consisting of a series of connected vehicles that generally runs along a rail track to transport cargo or passengers.

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V/Line

V/Line is a government-owned corporation that operates the regional passenger train and coach services in Victoria, Australia.

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V/Line VLocity

The V/Line VLocity, sometimes called the VLocity 160, is a diesel multiple unit train built by Bombardier Transportation, Dandenong for V/Line, the regional rail operator in Victoria.

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Victoria (Australia)

Victoria (abbreviated as Vic) is a state in south-eastern Australia.

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Warracknabeal

Warracknabeal is a wheatbelt town in the Australian state of Victoria.

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Wendouree, Victoria

Wendouree is a large suburb on the north western rural-urban fringe of the city of Ballarat, in Victoria, Australia.

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Western standard gauge line

The Western standard gauge is a railway line in western Victoria, Australia.

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Yaapeet

Yaapeet is a town in the Wimmera region of western Victoria, Australia.

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5 ft 3 in gauge railways

Railways with track gauge of are broad gauge railways, currently in use in Australia, Brazil, Ireland and Northern Ireland.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serviceton_railway_line

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