Timboon railway line

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| type = V/Line passenger service

| name = Timboon

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| open = 5 April 1892[https://www.victorianrailways.net/vr%20history/history.html victorianrailways.net]

| yearcompleted =

| close = 8 December 1986

| linelength = 35.92 km

| stations = 6

| tracks = Single

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File:Melbourne-Timboon rail ticket 1978.jpg

The Timboon railway line is a closed railway line, in Victoria, Australia, which branched from the Port Fairy line, near Camperdown, and served the towns of Cobden and Timboon, along with the farming communities of the area.

The first sod was turned on 14 February 1889 by John Walls of Camperdown who stated that the Railway league had been lobbying for 22 years for rail into the district.{{cite news |url=https://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article198065821 |title=CAMPERDOWN TO CURDIE'S RIVER RAILWAY. |newspaper=Leader |issue=1727 |location=Victoria, Australia |date=16 February 1889 |accessdate=27 March 2023 |page=31 |via=National Library of Australia}} The contractors, Messrs. Buscombe, Chappel & Bell took three years to complete the line. The 1916 Government Railways Standing Committee rejected the submission to extend the line to Port Campbell.{{cite news | url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/65015758|date=13 January 1917 | title=Timboon Railway Extension | newspaper=Camperdown Chronicle |via=Trove}}

Much of the line was dismantled during 1987.{{cite magazine|date=July 1987|title=Works|magazine=Newsrail|publisher=Australian Railway Historical Society|page=219}} All signalling and safeworking equipment at Timboon Junction were abolished by September of the same year.{{cite magazine|date=January 1988|title=Works|magazine=Newsrail|publisher=Australian Railway Historical Society|page=29}}

The section of the line between Naroghid and Timboon has been converted into the Camperdown-Timboon Rail Trail.[http://www.railtrails.org.au/states/trails.php3?action=trail&trail=31 Crater to Coast Rail Trail – railtrails.org.au]