End of the Line – Everybody Out! Port Fairy, Victoria, Australia
By
Smergol on 17-Feb-13. Waypoint GA6239
Cache Details
| Difficulty: | |
| Terrain: | |
| Type: | Traditional |
| Container: | Small |
| Coordinates: | S38° 22.838' E142° 14.286' (WGS 84) |
| 54H 608139E 5751226N (UTM) | |
| Elevation: | 3 m |
| Local Government Area: | Moyne |
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Description
End of the Line – Everybody Out! - part of the "Bull Fart" series
End of the Line – Everybody Out!
This cache is situated at the end (or Start!) of the Warrnambool to Pt. Fairy Rail Trail (Bool PFRT) is part of the GCA “Bull Fart” (phonetics – Bool PFRT!).
This is the End of the Line – Everybody Out! Take your rubbish and deposit in the bin provided at the end of the carriage………whoops got a little carried away there!
“FTF” GCA Pathtag in cache.
History
The railway line from Warrnambool to Melbourne was opened in 1887. The construction of the line to Port Fairy, via Koroit, started in late 1888 and it was completed in 1890.
Between Warrnambool and Belfast (Port Fairy) there were 12 gate keepers’ cottages. Stations were situated at, Warrnambool, Illowa, Koroit, Crossley Kirkstall, Moyne, Rosebrook and Port Fairy where farmers shipped their produce directly to Geelong and Melbourne.
Koroit became an important hub with the line to the north (Hamilton Spur – “Spur of the Moment” GCA cache there) joining the Port Fairy to Warrnambool line some 300 yards to the west of the station. Remnants of the cattle loading yards can be seen near North Street. The goods shed, one of the largest in the area is opposite the station. Also, remnants of the sidings and goods sheds at Port Fairy, Koroit and Illowa can be seen along the trail.
Some thought the line so beneficial that they felt the farmers should not require compensation for it passing through their property. For a time, the soon to decline ports, handled large quantities of railway materials. J Wilson and Company supplied 5,100 tons of equipment to the project.
The line came to provide an important recreational aspect to the area. Special pleasure trains ran to the seaside towns for Sunday school picnics, school excursions and social gatherings.
The line closed in September 1977 by the Hamer government to save some money!! The Rail Trail was completed earlier this year.
GCA “First to Find” pathtag in cache and the prestige of 1st To Find goes to OzBob.
Hints
Obggbz Yrsg pbeare. |
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Logs
Had a DNF on this one back in 2014 so good to rectify that. Don't know how we missed it then.
The sign is quite wobbly now so hopefully the cache will be okay if they replace or fix it.
Thanks Smergol.
Thanks Smergol...cache all good.
The better half of Team Ladava came good on this one. Now I know why I married her 46 years ago.
Love the history in the cache notes.
TNLN.
Our thanks to Smergol for the cache and bringing us to this location.
Ian & Sandra
Team Ladava
Cache condition – fine.
While I was waiting for my wife to finish an appointment in Port Fairy, I thought I'd try my hand a few of the rail trail caches that have cropped up since I rode the trail and collected the lot some time ago.
A very short walk from the Rail Trail car park and scanned the munzee less than a metre away also.
Thanks
And the start of a rail-trail that I did not know about !!
With a string of caches strung along the trail I couldn't help meself, and set off for a bike ride amongst the farting bulls
And of course where you have lots of Bull Fart, you have lots of flies !!
So with a few flies for company, I quickly searched a likely, and informative, location for signs of a cache.
And found one !!
A good start to a good ride
Today we explored Port Fairy and surrounds using geocaching as our guide.
Made a quick find in between a steady stream of muggles. TFTC
but had the stash in hand quite quickly nevertheless at 19:00.Can't wait to do the rail trail on the tredley
.TNLNSL. Thanks Smergol.
YES THE KIDS AND I FOUND IT...GOOD LUCK WITH THE SCRATCHIE, ALSO AA GOOD LUCK GEM 
My very first FTF. With pride took the coin. TFTC.
A very hot and windy day to locate this find. Methinks just reward for riding the rail trail several times over the last week.
