Bandiana | ||||||||||||||||
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| Location | Australia | |||||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 36°08′56″S 146°56′08″E / 36.1490°S 146.9356°E | |||||||||||||||
| Operated by | Victorian Railways | |||||||||||||||
| Line(s) | Cudgewa | |||||||||||||||
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| Status | Closed | |||||||||||||||
| History | ||||||||||||||||
| Opened | 10 September 1889 | |||||||||||||||
| Closed | 1 September 2009 | |||||||||||||||
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Bandiana was a closed station located in the town of Bandiana, on the Cudgewa railway line in Victoria, Australia. Originally opening on the 10 September 1889 the station saw passenger service until September 1961.[1] Part of the Cudgewa railway line was converted to dual gauge in 1944 to serve freight depots around Bandiana. From 1995, the broad gauge track was removed making Bandiana yard standard gauge track only.[2] The Wodonga-Bandiana section closed on 1 September 2009 as part of the Wodonga Rail Bypass project.[3]
Bandiana railway station was previously used to bogie exchange railway equipment from standard gauge to broad gauge or vice versa. Victoria's first Mainline diesel, B class No.60, was gauge converted at Bandiana during its delivery from Clyde Engineering to the Victorian Railways in 1952.[4] When through running between Victoria and New South Wales commenced, the need for bogie exchange Facilities at Bandiana ceased.
Today a portion of Bandiana railway yard is still intact with signaling infrastructure and railway track. There is nothing left of the station building or platform.