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Carpolac
Carpolac
Overview
Status	Closed, track removed
Termini	Horsham; Carpolac;
Stations	11
History
Opened	August 1887
Closed	8 December 1986

The Carpolac Railway Line was a railway line located in the Wimmera region of Victoria that branched off of the Serviceton railway line at Horsham railway station, Victoria. It was opened from Horsham to East Natimuk in August 1887, East Natimuk to Goroke in July 1894 and then from Goroke to Carpolac in May 1927 and closed on 8 December 1986.^[1]

Line Guide

Branched from the Serviceton railway line at Horsham station

Remlaw Siding

Vectis

Quantong

East Natimuk junction with the Balmoral railway line

Natimuk

Arapiles

Mitre (formerly St Mary's/Mitre Lake)

History

The line was opened in stages from Horsham to East Natimuk in August 1887, East Natimuk to Goroke in July 1894 and Goroke to Carpolac in 1927. It closed from East Natimuk to Carpolac on 8 December 1986 however the last train on the line ran in February 1986.^[1]

In 1910, the railway line in Mitre (formerly St Mary's then known as Mitre Lake) was flooded due to it running at a low elevation through the Mitre Swamp, this resulted in the line being suspended beyond Mitre. A deviation around the swamp was constructed a short time later and the original line was dismantled and formed the main road to Goroke.^[1]

Beginning in 1937 and lasting until April 1965, there was a daily mail/passenger train between Horsham/Carpolac. Sometime during the line's life, there was also a daily goods train.^[1]^[2]

During the 1968–69 grain harvest, the line saw a record number of trains with up to 10 trains a day in operation. Over the period of the grain harvest, 17,325 wagons of grain were transported along the line as it was transported entirely by rail.^[3]

References

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Bibliophile (30 November 2012). "Wimmera...way back when: Railways - Carpolac line". Wimmera...way back when. Retrieved 8 January 2021.
^ "Carpolac Line". Retrieved 8 January 2021.
^ LOCKWOOD, KEITH (3 January 2008). "When grain went by train". The Wimmera Mail-Times. Retrieved 8 January 2021.