Maffra railway line

Maffra railway
Overview
StatusClosed
History
Opened1883–1887
Closed1986: Traralgon to Cowwarr
1994: Cowwarr to Maffra
Route map

kms from Melbourne
Gippsland line to Melbourne
160.07
Traralgon
167.60
Glengarry
176.00
Toongabbie
184.15
Cowwarr
189.54
Dawson
195.05
Heyfield
204.85
Tinamba
212.57
Maffra
Briagolong line
Powerscourt siding
224.10
Stratford
Gippsland line to Bairnsdale
km

The Maffra railway line is a closed railway line in Victoria, Australia. The line provided an alternative route to East Gippsland than the current route to Sale. The line was closed in stages from Traralgon to Cowwarr in 1986, and from Cowwarr to Maffra in 1994. In its latter years, the main purpose of the line was to serve dairy industries at Maffra.

The last passenger service from Traralgon to Maffra was run by a 153hp Walker railmotor on 7 July 1977. A replacement bus service started two days later.[1] The last freight service on the line ran on 8 September 1994. It was an up goods to Sale, with locomotive N472 hauling a single container wagon and rail tractor RT49.[2]

  1. ^ Chris Banger (March 1997). "Rail Passenger Service Withdrawals Since 1960". Newsrail. Vol. 25, no. 3. Australian Railway Historical Society (Victorian Division). pp. 77–82.
  2. ^ "Operations". Newsrail. Australian Railway Historical Society (Victorian Division). January 1995. p. 23.