A bit of gardening--Further reminiscences of the closing days of the Beech Forest line

摘要

The third built of Victoria's quartet of narrow gauge railways was the last to close and seemingly brought an end to common carrier light lines within the State. Regarding the four locations as four lines, however, is not entirely accurate, as the further extention of the Beech Forest line to Crowes, built some nine years later on, was in reality a new line. Including the 5.2 kilometre Port Welshpool line (1905) brings the total of Victorian Railways narrow-gauge lines to six. The Beech Forest-Crowes line was most adequately reviewed in Ron Preston's December 2003 article, 'A Journey to Beech Forest', in LR 114 and in the much earlier winter edition (LR 9) of 1962.