Tuesday 21 April 2015

TRAIN STATION

This is our local train station at Fairfield. Fairfield railway station is located on the Hurstbridge line in Victoria, Australia, and serves the north-eastern Melbourne suburb of Fairfield. The station was called "Fairfield Park" when it opened on 8 May 1888, and was renamed "Fairfield" on 14 November 1943.

From 1891 to 1893, Fairfield was the junction station for the northern end of the former Outer Circle railway line, and was later the junction of the APM Siding, which operated from 1919 to the 1990s, and served the Australian Paper Manufacturers paper mill. Boom barriers replaced interlocked gates at the Station Street level crossing in 1969. Fairfield Industrial Dog Object (FIDO), a 6-metre-tall wooden sculpture of a dog, is located adjacent to the level crossing, at the eastern end of Platform 2.

This post is part of the Our World Tuesday meme,
and also part of the Ruby Tuesday meme,
and also part of the Wordless Wednesday meme.






9 comments:

  1. Great looking train station. Very nice.

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  2. I have never been to Fairfield Railway Station, but it looks typically Australian to me :) Love it.

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  3. Wonderful train station and great shots!

    Happy Week to you,
    artmusedog and carol

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  4. I love discovering places like this, thank you for sharing it :-)

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  5. Cool train station - very nice!
    Thanks for sharing at http://image-in-ing.blogspot.com/2015/04/at-keyboard.html

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  6. Gosh ... the train station almost makes Fairfield look like a country town. Very quaint.

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  7. Your pictures reveal interesting take on our lives !

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  8. A quaint little station for such a modern looking train. - Margy

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