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and requests to the shire engineer were submitted to independently survey the route and take it through the cheaper hills where the land was worth only £5 per acre (rather than flatlands worth up to £40 per acre). The use of these flatlands greatly contributed to the line's retention five years after
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The station's construction site had earlier been surveyed and acquired without objection under the
Railway Lands Acquisition Act of 1893 by the authority of the Nyora and Woolamai Railway Construction Act, with the proviso that the line run inland from Nyora and not along the coast from
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The station closed at the same time as the line in 1978. The retaining wall of the platform is still in fairly good condition and the level crossing on the nearby main road is still visible. The Kernot
Railway Station site is Crown Allotment 2058 in the parish of
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The station was finally renamed Kernot by the railway commissioners as the original Kernot
Station had been named after the chief engineer of the Victorian Railways. It also honored the engineer's recently deceased brother, Professor William Charles Kernot.
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on the 9 May 1910. McKenzie was the surname of an officer of the mines department and had been prominently identified with the
Powlett Coalfield. As expected, passenger service lasted only a few years, losing £900 per year due to poor patronage.
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from Nyora crashed into a coal train waiting on the siding at the station. Both engines were derailed and severely damaged, although both crews escaped injury. Rescue teams worked throughout the night and into the next day to clear the debris.
285:(Victorian Railways Schedule 1639/10 in Feb 1910) when it serviced the coal line but was temporarily renamed McKenzie (Victorian Railways Schedule 2204/10 May 1910) when it opened for passenger and goods services on the
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151:Woodleigh
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355:. 1907
207:Kernot
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