Beaufort Rail Disaster Beaufort, Victoria, Australia
By chooknchunk on 15-Jun-19. Waypoint GC89H51

Nice to avenge a DNF. Big cache. Big station. Found on the 2024 epic Norfolk Island jaunt.Thanks chooknchunk and clear skies from TeamAstro. Cache the planet! I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I Are you ready for Victorias next big event? Join in Victorias first ever Block Party to celebrate 25 years of geocaching on March 22 - 23, 2025, at Hume Global Learning Centre, Sunbury - See GCAP417: The Sunbury Event

Nice easy find. Maybe too easy and a bit exposed. Pushed it on a bit. Tftc

Tftc. Nice size cache for swaps

25 September 2024 3:00pmFind # 729Revisiting Beaufort and collecting some nice quick finds along the way.TFTC

Cache back in play.

Nearly there. In the painting phase (waiting for suitable weather on a day we are home). Should be back out in the next week or so.

We are still collecting the components to re-make this cache. We hope to have it up and running again in about a month (after chook returns from overseas).

Checked this morning and sadly it has gone missing. Disabled until it can be replaced.

You pwned us n00bs.A terrible disaster. Rail crashes tend to be like that. We will return.Look look look. You are only as good as your next find.Nothing. Even with a previous finder who confirmed Id had a good look where the hint suggests. Thanks and clear skies from TeamAstro. [^] Cache the planet!

Tftc

What a sad tale, but fortunately, some good came about as a result.Everyone deserves to live to go home at the end of their working day. Thanks for the cache. No muggles about, just myself, +Wife and EveTheStaffy. It was great to catch up with you all this morning.

On my way up to Beaufort for ChooknChuncks event today. Id carpooled with Sol De Lune and arrived early for the event so had some time to get a few caches. I was able to visit this cache this morning and with the hint, I was able to walk right up to it. Having a look at the description. I learnt a lot about this awful disaster. The photos really show how damaging the accident was.Thanks for this cache and the historical knowledge.

17:07A train trip to Beaufort to celebrate a massive milestone (and Blue Switch Day), a couple of bonus caches in Ararat courtesy of our gracious hosts, and a tasty pie for lunch.That's a pretty good start to today's shenanigans.And now for a walk (mostly) around town.A walk which, after eleven klicks, finished right by where I need to be, with about half an hour to spare.Finding this cache didn't use up much of that time.I love a cheeky hide, especially one of those proportions.Thanks, chooknchunk, for the cache, today's fun and the information. Of course, maybe it's not that smart to think too hard about rail disasters just before getting on the train home. I'm sure my modern passenger train will get me home safely.It'll definitely be a quieter trip than this morning's...#8843

Working backwards in the order we found caches this arvo. Had a chat to the guy manning the station museum, saw the V line bus and the train pull in to the station, photographed the mural, then went round tothe goods shed to grab this cache. All good here too. TFTC.

Just put a trackable in the geocache! Thanks for the lovely stop!

A quick stop for snacks on our way home from Halls Gap and I made the slight detour to pick up this cache. A nice quick find at gz with nobody around. An interesting, if not happy, piece of local history highlighted here and the pictures included give an idea of how serious it was. Thanks for the cache chooknchunk.

Utilising the hint, the two kids went in search of the cache. Miss tween monster completely missed what I said and the youngest monster made the quick find! TFTC!!

TFTC great adventure in Beaufort today

Nice easy find! Thank you

Found on a short stay in Beaufort.Found / signed / replacedTFTC

A quick find here. TFTN. Interesting description.

The fire threat to Beaufort has now reduced, this area was not impacted, and it is now safe to re-enable the cache.

Here's one to find today.Thank you for placing the cache chooknchunk.

This cache is an an area subject to fire fighting operations (22-23 Feb) and may have been impacted by the fire. It has been disabled until it is safe for the CO is able to check the current condition of the cache.

Great hide!

Peppa had a plan! Beardman75, Peppa and I have come to Ballarat to cache until we drop, its day 3 and its far from over. We have completed the Ballarat Geotour, which was our main target for the trip, so have the rest of the day to go where the wind (or BM75) takes us. We are enroute to a special oldie out west and after refuelling we stopped in here to make a quick find. Tftc chooknchunkFind #5284

Thankfully no one was watching from the platform. Found with Peppa and Davinells. Thanks for the cache chooknchunk

Day 3 in the Pulsating Peugeot Party Prowler Having watched Davinells take an early morning dip in the delightfully chilly Lake Wendouree, then gotten our GeoTour souvenir, were now on a grand excursion to collect some select oldies in far flung LGAs and anything else I request as this was a Peppa had a plan weekendA quick parkngrab to rescue the TB and learn a little of the disasterThanks chooknchunk

Great hide

I was heading to Beaufort for the Goodbye 2023 celebration event and arrived with enough time to do some caching first. Luckily there was no-one on the platform, nor anywhere around either, so it became a quick find.Thanks to chooknchunk for the cache.

Quick findthanks for the cache

It was all quiet near GZ. The cache was nicely hidden but it was found quite quickly. Thanks to chooknchunk for the cache.

Stopped by here for a nice quick find at 14:25 after a bit of late lunch in town. Hmm, it looks like Alsume *is* going on tomorrow's walk. A nice large cache, well hidden but not too difficult with an interesting back story. Sounds worthy of a fave point to me. TNLNSL. Thanks chooknchunk.

Quick find at 12:15pm on the way to Halls Gap.Thanks chooknchunk

Passing through and thought it was te for some smilesThank you

After attending an event nearby this morning as part of the 2023 Cache Crawl roadtrip I decided to look for a trad or two.
This was pretty close so I made my way to GZ where the cache was easily found using the good hint. While I was signing the log BackPAQer and FMH1977 arrived. Can we count this as an additional event ?!
Thanks for sharing the story and the cache, chooknchunk.

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Today I managed to attend all 10 Cache Crawl events; stopped for a parkrun at Beaufort, found all the relevant lab caches, found a few other caches along the way, drank many coffees, ate many pastries, chatted with many good friends, and had a very enjoyable time.
Covered 350km from Ararat to Ferntree Gully, for a roundtrip total of 600km which was very similar to the 2022 Cache Crawl distance.

Got it update shortly took some TB’s

A true park and grab straight out of the hands of Mr Pac-Man

TB drop x 2

Merry Cachemas!!!

It was a weekend of Cachemas celebrations and lots of traveling. After stopping in Ballarat overnight it was off to Beaufort for lunch before heading south to the Bellarine for a CITO and dinner, with a few caches inbetween.

A quick stop here on the way to the event. A stray cat was interested in what we were up to.

Such a tragedy here.

Thanks chooknchunk for adding this cache to the worldwide collection for us all to enjoy.

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It’s cachemas time! A weekend full of events, citos, catching up with friends and turning caches into smileys.

As we were searching for the cache, I turned on the tap to see if it was real. Yep, it's real!
Next minute, a small tortoiseshell cat appeared. I figured she must've been thirsty, so added a little more water to the puddle for her to enjoy after we'd left.
Discovered two TBs.

Thanks for bringing us here by placing this cache, chooknchunk
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a flying visit to Beaufort, and a good straightforward find before the rain came. GrahamT

TFTC a very interesting hide
Thanks for the muggle tip
Found it with nannynomad

Took a bit of wiggling to get it out of hiding place but finally got it. Found with joybell53

Great day no one around, great hide....
TFTC

Last find for the day, but will be back to head further afield sometime soon.

The photo's certainly show the damage an accident like this can cause. Surprised only 3 were killed. Thanks for the history of this, must say I didn't know anything about it.

Cache was found without and with no-one around. Thanks chooknchunk....cache all good.

What a lovely station, love old railway buildings,so thank you for bringing me here

Found it out and about with Annabella02,tftc

Day out caching , so sad to hear of these tragedies,thanks for bringing us here to reflect on what happened here. TFTC

Sad story but cool cache!

But of sad history here, but good things happened because of it I guess! Well hidden cache!

Sad story thanks for being us here you learn a lot while geoing

while wandering through the area on our way to somewhere else for a photo session we grabbed this cache

A good day was had while grabbing these caches with lots of miles covered and with good friend,
Thanks for placing them

*Found with [Geooh GO](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mobiltal.geoohGO)*

Whoah - that’s some buckle! Passing by so seemed an interesting one to wander to. All quiet on the platform over yonder. TFTC and the info!

Fascinating little history story.

Nice hide, beautiful old station.

TFTC

A sad part of history...
A quick find.
TNLNSL
Thanks

TFTC

Making the long trip from Melbourne to Adelaide and breaking up the trip with rest stops (and some caching). After grabbing lunch in the shade in Beaufort, I make the small journey to the train station and parked next to the posted coordinates. With no-one around to bother me, it was a nice quick find here. TFTC chooknchunk

Found with Alansee before the day gets too warm. Happy New Year!

Found with Moonb1 today. This was the first cache for us both after leaving the motel this morning.

TFTC

Another interesting piece of history learnt while walking the dog around town this morning.
It seems my morning lessons are history and PE!

TFTC chooknchunk
Keep smiling

Quite a smash. Quick find here.

November 2022. Time for the second Victorian Mega of the year. This time in Whittlesea. What is it with W's? Time for another epic road trip. Who will join our merry crew? We traveled from South Australia and camped in the pig pen. It rained. It blew. It was sunny. It was not sunny. All four seasons. Beautiful location and some awesome caches.

Warning, this hobby can be addictive. It can lead to exercise, meeting new people and finding interesting places you might not have known existed otherwise. Beware: you may have fun.

Thanks for the cache. Merci la cache. Danke für den Cache. Gracias por el caché. Bedankt voor de cache. Kiitos kätköstä. Zikomo posungira. Terima kasih untuk cache. Hvala cache. Köszönöm a cache. Nga mihi mo te keteroki. Dankie vir die kas.

My knees my knees. What’s the hint? Oh. Ok. Over there. That’s better. Thanks for the cache.

Once again, behind schedule, and minimal time for caching on the Melbourne to Adelaide drive. I picked two caches in Beaufort to coincide with a pause in the rain.

I wasn’t aware of this sad story before, and I had never strayed far enough from the highway to get to the railway line before either. A quick find at GZ without anyone else around.

Thanks for the hide chooknchunk.

*The SueHut Birthday Long Weekend Adventure #48*
It's day 4 of our long weekend, and we're meandering our way back home.
It's sad to think that something so terrible could happen in such a pretty place.
Thanks heaps, chooknchunk!

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Ttfc

Found on an overcast muggle free morning. Cache is in good condition.
TFTC

Found it on my back form my grandmothers for the week it was a cool place thanks for the found

Found it cool place

Found TFTC

Good find whilst out and about with Divcommm tftc

Accurate coordinates made this a quick find , all's good at gz TFTC chooknchunk

This town is always a n interesting place to stop in and check out, so today stopped and checked out this railway station and learnt something new, cache was an easy find thanks to the hint.

This weekend we headed to Melbourne for a 3 day road trip to watch the lions take on the demons at the MCG in the semi finals plus catch up with family for the weekend, couldn't resist but add some caches to the tally for the trip as well.

Thanks for the cache

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Found with O319. TFTC

Found with SJG66 as we toured Western Victoria. TFTC

A quick find with frmen1 and managed to replace before a V-Line train approached from the Horsham end of the line. Thanks for the description. Added some swag. TFTC

Found with tassie expat. Thanks for placing it.

Today we had a leisurely start in Beaufort getting ready for our trip back to SA. The Junior colts were well into their game before we left the lake side caravan park.
Off to Waterloo for a few caches and AL. Then off to do the musical wherigos which we had so much fun solving last night whilst drinking a lot of wine and singing along to Jimmy Barnes.
Quick lunch at the footy oval before heading onwards to Taylor’s Lake for our last night camping, the serenity here is lovely.
Plenty of caches found during today what a bonus and still no rain to spoil our trio how lucky are we?
Thanks to all the CO for the great hides and the Victorian cachers foe looking after the hides my SA counterparts could taje a leaf out of their book.
We liked this one very audacious TFTC

Today was a family trip to Ararat, a quick dash up, and a leisurely caching drive back. Seven caches in all! We have just about got our systems firmed up for a "seamless caching experience!" This was a fun cache, we almost drove into it. (One only should look at the GPS, the other should drive!) Left a geonickel, one of the last red ones. TFTC

Found and signed with dalerious in-between 2 events being held here. This is my first visit to this town, and there was one mystery in particular that I was longing to find and sign . Can't wait to get back here with locus cache and sign the logs for the wherigo's . Hoping the CO's are free for a catch up on that day.
TFTC chooknchunk .

Found with catnap777 while on our flyby visit to Beaufort to attend a couple of events. [^]
Spot on coords took us straight to this well kept cache retrieved quickly with no muggles in sight.

Thanks for the well researched cache chooknchunk. They are some pretty amazing period photos in the gallery.

TFTC

Nice an quiet today, thank you

A quick drive-by grab on a rainy evening.
On a road trip from Perth to Canberra with a few side trips for LGAs. TFTC

Quick find today thanks.

Aha good one.
My geo partner was way off, but found it after getting low!
Thanks for sharing the history and great pics!
Tftc

Staying with friends in Beaufort for Easter, perfect geocaching weather!!
Good to keep the kids and adults entertained for a bit.
TFTC

Nice easy find!

TFTC. No mugglers today. A quick find.

To chooknchunk
This is my 76 cache to day a great cache to find
From Tippsy17

Heading over to Melbourne for the Grand Prix grabbing caches along the way TFTC

Simple and nice quality tftc #123

Good find ️ swapped the lizard for some marbles

**Find #3664**

A quick Find in a great location. Always enjoy a cache near an old Station.

Thanks **chooknchunk**

TFTC.

This was one of a few caches we diverted from our focus to look for.

Our last hurrah in the Ballarat area was a trip out to Beaufort to look for the music based wherigo series. We particularly enjoyed solving these as the music was from our time and many answers came easily and had us singing as we completed the cartridges. We have to admit to using google quite a bit on the more recent featured however. The 60s, 70s and 80s certainly were a golden time for music.

All logs signed as SKI Pair or RASP.

Thank you for your efforts in creating and maintaining the cache chooknchunk.
**SKI Pair****