Hi Shelley Cudgewa, Victoria, Australia
By Tassie Trekkers on 08-Apr-19. Waypoint GA13737

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Hi Shelley

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Once solved it will bring you to Shelley Railway station

Shelley was once Victoria's highest railway station, located 781 metres above sea level. The Shelley Railway Station was opened in 1916 and closed in 1979x. The railway was used early in its life to transport farmer’s livestock from the Upper Murray to Wodonga. From the 1950s the railway was used heavily to transport equipment and machinery from Wodonga to the Upper Murray to help build the Snowy Mountains Hydro Electric Scheme. The Snowy Hydro Scheme was completed in nineteen seventy four  and after several years of low level use, the railway was closed.

Some remnants of the Shelley Station passenger platform can still be seen here today, along with some information boards. The Shelley Railway Station forms part of the High Country rail Trail. The locomotives were steam driven, and these held sway over the diesel-electric motor until the late 1960s. Whilst the railway only ever carried small numbers of people (the biggest numbers were migrants to, and from, the Bonegilla Camp) it carried an enormous amount of freight when the Snowy Mountains Hydro-electric Scheme got under way after World War II. However, like many other railway systems in Australia, the Wodonga - Cudgewa Line fell victim to Australia’s rising prosperity and improved road building techniques. Passenger services ceased in the early 1960s, and the freight service was withdrawn in 1978. 

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