Ararat railway station, Victoria
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Ararat
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Westbound view from Platform 2 in March 2008
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| Location | Birdwood Avenue, Ararat | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 37°16′56″S 142°56′12″E / 37.2823°S 142.9367°ECoordinates: 37°16′56″S 142°56′12″E / 37.2823°S 142.9367°E | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Owned by | VicTrack | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Operated by | V/Line | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Serviceton Western standard gauge |
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| Distance | 210.82 kilometres from Southern Cross | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Platforms | 2 (1 side, 1 dock) | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Tracks | 2 | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| Structure type | Ground | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| Status | Staffed | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Station code | ART | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Fare zone | Myki Zone 17 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Website | Public Transport Victoria | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| Opened | 7 April 1875 | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Ararat railway station is located on the Serviceton and Western standard gauge lines, in Victoria, Australia. It serves the town of Ararat, and opened on 7 April 1875. It is also the junction for the closed Ararat – Maryborough line.
Ararat has two platform faces. The full length standard gauge platform is to the north, with broad gauge trains using a dock platform on the south face. A grade crossing exists at the Up end of the station, to allow the broad gauge to continue east towards Beaufort and Ballarat, while the standard gauge heads south, towards Geelong.
Control of signals is by the Australian Rail Track Corporation control centre at Mile End, South Australia, and Centrol, in Melbourne.
A dead end siding is located to the east, for broad gauge passenger trains, and across from the main platform are two loops and one dead end standard gauge sidings.
The railway first reached Ararat from Ballarat on 7 April 1875. The line south to Portland opened in December 1877, and the mainline was extended west, reaching the South Australian border at Serviceton, in January 1887. The line to Maryborough opened in 1890. Two signal boxes ('A' and 'B') opened in 1891, and in 1914, the goods sidings were extended, with the locomotive depot built soon after.
In the late 1930s, the locomotive depot was expanded, in conjunction with the arrival of the new H class 4-8-4 steam locomotives, intended for use on The Overland passenger train. An 85 feet (26 m) turntable was installed with 24 roads around it, the largest on the Victorian Railways network. Before this time, Stawell was the major servicing facility in the region.
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