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ABOVE: Golden Square station, as viewed looking south from from the cockpit of Charles Daniel Pratt, renowned aerial photographer, c1934. (Courtesy of SLV).
history...
ABOVE: O 47 shunting at the original Golden Square station, sometime between 1886 and 1898. Having been delivered new as number 58 in October, 1863, the 'odds and evens' system of numbering adopted by the VR, had this altered to 47. It was assigned a class letter of 'O' in 1886 when the letter designations were introduced, and was the first of it's class to be scrapped, on August 13, 1904.
(Photograph courtesy of PROV).
ABOVE: J 538 shunting at Golden Square. February 2, 1971.
(Photograph courtesy of ?)
ABOVE: S 312 shortly after leaving Bendigo, draws into Golden Square on its way back to Melbourne with the Satuday afternoon Passenger service. March 4, 1978.
(Photograph courtesy of Geoff Winkler)
ABOVE: An up pass has just left Golden Square and is passing under the Hunter St bridge. The signal on the extreme left was Golden Square's up starting signal, the signal on this side of the bridge was Golden Square's down home signal, Nov. 1982.
(photo courtesy Noel Bamford)
ABOVE: The up station building at Golden Square looking towards Melbourne. 1988 BELOW: The same view 20 years later in 2008. Golden Square was closed to passenger traffic on Oct 5 1982. (photo courtesy Chris Wurr.)
ABOVE: The down station building at Golden Square 1988 BELOW: The same view 20 years later in 2008, photo courtesy Chris Wurr.
BELOW, the same bridge as in the photo above but photographed from the north side showing Golden Square's up co-acting starting signal. (photo courtesy David Langley)
BELOW: The view of Golden Square's yard from the Hunter street overbridge, the down platform can be seen above the oil tanker on the right. (photo courtesy David Langley)
ABOVE: Extract from a 1904 VR Estate office plan.
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