Yallourn Railway Line - Facilities at Yallourn

Facilities At Yallourn

The sidings at Yallourn crossed the SECV operated Yallourn 900mm Railway in a number of places. By 1953 broad gauge facilities in Yallourn included:

• Main line from Moe (new line)
• Main line from Hernes Oak (old line)
• Passenger platform, goods shed and 5 road yard serving the town of Yallourn, all facing a dead end and accessed via the old line
• Sidings to move machinery and other equipment to the briquette factory
• Marshalling yard and sidings to handle the outbound traffic from the briquette factory.
• A reversing triangle
• Coal stage and basic repair facilities
• Sidings serving the SECV workshops for the open cut mine
• Sidings serving the SECV main stores
• Sidings serving the SECV power station
• A line running across the Latrobe River to the Yallourn North open cut mine

At the time of the opening of the new line from Moe, a new railway station and goods shed to serve to town of Yallourn was opened, the responsibility taken by the SECV. The railway station closed to passengers in the 1960s.