Nobelius Siding Railway Station, Melbourne
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Nobelius Siding is situated on the Puffing Billy Railway in Emerald
. The siding was built in 1904 to service the adjacent packing shed built the same year. The siding was originally used to load rail trucks with Nursery
seedlings and plants for the C.A. Nobelius' Gembrook Nursery for shipment throughout Australia. The Nobelius nursery was once the largest plant nursery in the Southern Hemisphere with 200,000 trees grown on 180 hectares.
The Packing Shed has been restored by Puffing Billy Volunteers and is now used by the Railway as a function centre, mainly in association with the evening Dinner Trains which run on most Friday and Saturday evenings (plus other selected evenings) from Belgrave to Nobelius Siding, where passengers disembark and are served a 3-course meal inside the Packing Shed before returning on the train to Belgrave.
Emerald, Victoria
Emerald is a town and semi-rural locality in the Greater Melbourne area, Victoria, Australia, 44 km south-east from Melbourne's central business district, outside the urban area. Its Local Government Area are the Shires of Cardinia and Yarra Ranges...
. The siding was built in 1904 to service the adjacent packing shed built the same year. The siding was originally used to load rail trucks with Nursery
Nursery (horticulture)
A nursery is a place where plants are propagated and grown to usable size. They include retail nurseries which sell to the general public, wholesale nurseries which sell only to businesses such as other nurseries and to commercial gardeners, and private nurseries which supply the needs of...
seedlings and plants for the C.A. Nobelius' Gembrook Nursery for shipment throughout Australia. The Nobelius nursery was once the largest plant nursery in the Southern Hemisphere with 200,000 trees grown on 180 hectares.
The Packing Shed has been restored by Puffing Billy Volunteers and is now used by the Railway as a function centre, mainly in association with the evening Dinner Trains which run on most Friday and Saturday evenings (plus other selected evenings) from Belgrave to Nobelius Siding, where passengers disembark and are served a 3-course meal inside the Packing Shed before returning on the train to Belgrave.
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