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March 2021 a Journal of Transport Timetable History and Analysis The Times March 2021 A journal of transport timetable history and analysis Maddingley 1967 Maddingley 2020 RRP $4.95 Inside: Maddingley rises again Incl. GST Destination Chiswick Vancouver Reflections The Times A journal of the Australian Timetable Association Inc. (A0043673H) Print Publication No: 349069/00070, ISSN 0813-6327 March 2021 Vol 38 No. 03 Issue No. 446 The Times welcomes all contributions. Our Authors’ Guide is available on our web-site at https://www.timetable.org.au/ Reproduction Provided a Creative Commons acknowledgement is made, material appearing in The Times may be reproduced anywhere. Disclaimer Opinions expressed in our magazines are not necessarily those of the Association or its members. Editor Geoff Lambert 179 Sydney Rd FAIRLIGHT 2094 NSW email: [email protected] The Times is posted in full colour to our website https://www.timetable.org.au/times.html, two months after publication in paper and to the National Library website 6 months after publication. Colour PDF versions of previous issues of our magazines are at https://www.timetable.org.au/ —Contents— Geoff Lambert MADDINGLEY RISES AGAIN 3 Richard Peck DESTINATION CHISWICK 10 Hilaire Fraser VANCOUVER REFECTIONS 13 Aaah! “Maddingley”! … for former residents, the name rings bells. Now, at Kerr’s Road (red arrow), the bells ring 71 times every weekday. The story starts on page 3. Letter from Ian Manning Mildura-Broken Hill James Wells was indeed correct in assuming that the current Transport for NSW bus service between Mildura and Broken Hill revived a previous service. On Monday 13.11.2006 I was one of four passengers on the run which left Mildura at 0900, connecting with the overnight V/Line bus from Melbourne, successor to the Vinelander. Presumably the service had originally been introduced as a Vinelander connection. I did not avail myself of the overnight bus, but rather travelled from Melbourne via Swan Hill the previous evening. The motel opposite the station provided for after-midnight arrivals by leaving pre-booked room keys under the doormat. I was one of four passengers on the 0900 mini-bus driven by Tom Evans, proprietor of Junction Tours. We arrived at the Broken Hill bus station at 1230. The only other user of this substantial facility was Buses R Us, with their three weekly trips to Adelaide - NSW CountryLink buses left from the Crystal St railway station, as did the train which I caught to Sydney on Tues 14th to attend a seminar at the UNSW on the 15th. It was an interesting route from Melbourne to Sydney and, thinking I might repeat the trip, every so often I looked it up on the web. Junction Tours was replaced by Buses R Us, who after a while made the service conditional on sufficient bookings, then eventually marked it as suspended, but not for ever: there came the day when their website announced 'We're Back!'. James Wells is therefore correct in suspecting continuity between the Transport for NSW service and the previous operator. It is noticeable that the timetables emphasise hospital connections and I suspect that the Broken Hill Health Service is a major if informal stakeholder in the service. 2 The Times March 2021 Maddingley Rises Again Geoff Lambert, who watched Maddingley trains come and go from 1950 COME FROM MADDINGLEY – were so rare. Street Cricket would be Marsh was to be a stub-end branch. somebody has to. suspended while all the players, boys “Bacchus Marsh Junction” appears on I Maddingley was first gazetted as and girls alike, stopped to count the a Parish map of Parwan of 1888. trucks on No.77 Fast Goods. a “township” in 1853 and appeared on The Second Schedule to the Act a mineralogical map of 1868 (below, For most of the time I lived there, the contained 3 pages of fine print giving to which I have added the location of locals considered that the southern what was essentially a written the eventual railway and stations). border of Maddingley was the railway description of a construction plan. It is not clear where the name comes line, at the point it began to curve Maddingley is frequently mentioned in from, but it seems to have either been south towards Rowsley. It was these paragraphs (see extract on Page named after a person or is, perhaps, a something of a surprise to me to 5 which describes the line from misspelling of Madingley, near discover in Andrew Waugh’s track Maddingly [sic] township to Rowsley Cambridge in England. Wikipedia maps that there was a Maddingley Station with black stars). Maddingley/ says: It is a suburb of Bacchus Marsh, Siding at the top of the hill; also Bacchus Marsh Racecourse Platform a peri-urban town in central Victoria, known as Bacchus Marsh Racecourse. lies at the very start of the 1M52C section. There was a gatehouse at Australia. The locality consists of the The official name of the railway was Kerr’s Road, a fact that could be portion of the Bacchus Marsh urban the “Bacchus Marsh and Gordons gleaned from close examination of the area south of the Werribee River. At Railway”, authorised under the ground just to the north of the level the 2016 census, Maddingley had a Railway Construction Act 1884, crossing. population of 3,453. otherwise known as the “Octopus Well—when I came to Maddingley in Act”. The original notion for the main Plans for the line exist and Jack late 1949, it had a population of about line was that it would not dip down McLean (ATA Founder) obtained a 300. Many of my earliest memories of into Bacchus Marsh, but continue in a photocopy of them, but they are not Maddingley involve the trains that straight line from “Bacchus Marsh otherwise in the public domain. passed to and fro next to Gaynor’s Junction”, a place that later became However, it just so happens I had an Gully at the end of McCrae Street (our Parwan station; thence more or less extract of Jack’s copy and it shows house is the yellow dot). Trains were a along the line of Kerr’s Rd. Under this (barely) the Kerr’s Road crossing (see fascination for we kids because they plan, quickly abandoned, Bacchus page 2). According to the Level The Times March 2021 3 Timetables for Special Trains to Bacchus Marsh Racecourse First # of Last Racing date Down trains Race Events Race Up Trains Other trains/ Notes Horse- 1st 2nd 3rd 1st 2nd 3rd Horse- box Pass. Pass. Pass. Pass. Pass. Pass. box 16-Jun-1888 9:50 11:40 17:00 17:40 1-Dec-1888 10:56 11:40 12:05 17:07 17:17 17:50 Trains return when races are over 23-Nov-1889 10:55 11:30 11:50 12:35 ?? ?? ?? ?? Through line not yet open 11:00 AM Up to call at 13:00'; Express to Ballarat to call at 8-Apr-1890 10:30 11:15 11:30 ?? ?? ?? 17:45; 19:45 Bacchus Marsh to Ballarat to stop. 6-Sep-1890 10:30 11:00 11:30 13:30 7 16:45 17:15 17:30 17:50 Morning and forenoon (Up) Ballarat 4-Dec-1890 10:30 11:15 11:30 6 17:15 17:30 17:50 3-Sep-1891 10:00 11:20 11:40 6 17:00 17:15 18:00 28-Nov-1891 11:00 11:20 12:00 13:45 16:45 17:00 17:15 18:25 5-May-1892 10:30 11:15 11:35 13:45 16:30 16:55 17:15 17:40 0735 and 1110 Up Ballarat will stop 7-Sep-1892 10:30 11:15 11:42 16:55 17:15 17:40 Preceded by a Hunt at "a quarter to twelve a.m. 22-Feb-1893 11:00 11:42 4-May-1893 11:00 11:45 6 17:00 17:30 7-Sep-1893 11:00 11:55 17:00 7-Dec-1893 11:00 13:45 16:40 17:00 6-Sep-1894 11:00 11:55 17:00 17:30 6-Dec-1894 11:00 11:55 11:10 Up Ballarat to stop 15-May-1895 11:00 11:45 17:00 17:30 Crossing Book of the early 20th Rd, was some 15 metres wider than The Race Train Timetables Century, Kerr’s Rd was 33M60C85L that of the section of line to either side. The Table above gives some details from Melbourne and 35M69C00lL Within that space, my eye of faith saw of the timetables of known Race from Warrenheip. three tracks and at least one earth Specials between June 1888 (which mound that might have been a The Times of December 2010 gives was about 20 months before the full platform. This is pretty much some details of the sidings at line was opened) to May 1895. For supported by entries in the 1898 and Maddingley and the timetables of the the first three racing days listed, the 1902 General Appendices which Special Trains that used them nature of any safeworking mention “Racecourse platform and between 1889 and 1895. arrangements is not at all clear sidings situated 1¾ miles on Down because construction was still The Sidings side of Bacchus Marsh ”. Possibly, it underway further up the line. A resembled the mock-up above. I had long noticed that about 500 Graphical timetable chart of the metres of the railway reserve at specials for November 1891, Maddingley commencing at Kerr’s interspersed between the regular 4 The Times March 2021 passenger and good trains, is shown below the Table.
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