Benetook, Victoria

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{{Use Australian English|date=August 2012}}

{{Infobox Australian place

| type = town

| name = Benetook

| state = vic

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| postcode = 3496

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| elevation= 70

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| lga = Rural City of Mildura

| region = Sunraysia

| stategov = Mildura

| fedgov = Mallee

| dist1 = 545

| dir1 = northwest

| location1= Melbourne

| dist2 = 25| dir2=southwest

| location2= Mildura

| dist3 = 9

| dir3=west

| location3= Thurla

| dist4 = 8

| dir4=east

| location4= Pirlta[http://www.travelmate.com.au/MapMaker/MapMaker.asp Travelmate] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070324192800/http://www.travelmate.com.au/MapMaker/Mapmaker.asp |date=24 March 2007 }} }}

Benetook is a locality in the Sunraysia region about 9 kilometres west of Thurla and 8 kilometres east of Pirlta.

The Post Office opened around 1925. The building was destroyed by fire in 1929,{{cite news |title=Post Office and Store Burnt |url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/3991596 |accessdate=10 March 2019 |work=The Argus |date=25 January 1929}} and the office was closed in 1946.{{Citation | last = Phoenix Auctions History | title = Post Office List | url = http://www.phoenixauctions.com.au/cgi-bin/wsPhoenix.sh/Viewpocdwrapper.p?SortBy=VIC&filter=*Benetook* | access-date = 9 February 2021}} Benetook was on the Morkalla railway line. The station opened with the first section of the line in 1924, with facilities for passengers, goods and grain. It closed in 1970.{{cite web |url=http://www.vrhistory.com/Locations/Redcliffs-Meringur.pdf |page=2 |title=Redcliffs - Meringur |author=Andrew Waugh |work=Victorian Signalling Histories No 58, Version 1.0 |date=March 2003 |accessdate=24 June 2014}}