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Loch | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| South Gippsland Railway station | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
.jpg) Station platform and building, March 2013 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| General information | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Location | 100.41 km (62.39 mi) from Flinders Street | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Line(s) | South Gippsland Railway | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Platforms | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Tracks | 1, (3 until 1981), (2 until 1994, Loch Loop) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Status | Closed 16 January 2016 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| History | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Opened | 11 November 1890 1997 (reopened) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Closed | 24 July 1993 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Loch is a railway station on the former South Gippsland line in South Gippsland, Victoria, Australia. The station was then part of the South Gippsland Tourist railway, after passenger operations on the line ceased after Cranbourne station in 1993, until 2016, when the railway shut down. It is located on the Great Southern Rail Trail.
The station is maintained by volunteers of the South Gippsland Railway, and by a growing number of people within the Loch township.
The station presently features a small station building that was formerly located at Welshpool station. It was relocated to the Loch platform in 2003 following the construction of the Loch bypass road. The former station structure when operating as a V/Line service was of the pebble coated concrete Bus Shelter type, on a grass platform, featuring a large tree on the southern end of the platform—typical of many small township railway stations. It is understood a more substantial building was at Loch, prior to its sidings and goods facilities being dismantled in the 1970s.