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Article #609Re: Beech Forest today
From: david
Date: Sat, 11 Sep 1999 00:00
Date: Sat, 11 Sep 1999 00:00
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Thankyou John, I'm thinking of going down there next Saturday, weather permitting, digital camera in hand ! Regards, David Head John Cleverdon wrote: > > We visited the site (along with other railways in the Otways) in 1993. > At that stage, there was not too much left of the station site (that I > remember). > The platform mound is still there in my photo, along with a little bit of the > edging (I don't have the time to look through all of Dad's photos :-). > > The tennis court in the centre of the balloon loop was disused (IIRC); a *rough* > guess of the radius would be perhaps 10-15m at most. > > A useful source of information would be the book "The Beechy" by Norm Houghton. > > We stayed at the hotel-motel which was adjacent to the station; the hotel (the > only one in town) burnt down a year or two back. > > John > -- > John Cleverdon, B.App.Sc. (Cartography), AMMSIA > Land Titles Automation Project - Beveridge & Williams, Melbourne > Amateur astronomer & Railway enthusiast | Bombers - 1999 AFL Premiers > E-mail: johnc@cdi.com.au | Phone: 03 5987 1535 (H) | Dromana, Victoria > The Locomotive Page: http://www.railpage.org.au/loco > Astronomical Society of Frankston: http://www.cdi.com.au/~johnc/asf.htm > Railway Map of Victoria: http://www.cdi.com.au/~johnc/railmap.htm
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