User:Cnwb/melway

I've been cross-referencing the Melway first edition (1966) with the current edition. Of course, Melbourne has grown a lot since 1966, but I'm more interested in the things that have disappeared; railway lines and stations, drive-ins, schools, government facilities etc. I'm interested in the streets which have disappeared to make room for freeways or shopping centres - ghost-streets, I've decided to call them.

Suburb	Melway ref.	1966	2005
Altona	55 D7	Altona Migrant Hostel[1]	Williamstown Techno Park
Williamstown	55 J9	Williamstown Rifle Range	suburban streets
Williamstown	56 F10	Williamstown Pier Railway Station	gone
Newport	55 G3	Quarry	Soccer complex
Williamstown	55 C6	Mobiltown Railway Station	gone
Altona	55 A5	Paisley Railway Station	gone
Altona	55 A5	Altona Railway Station terminus	Line now continues
Altona	54 C7	Galvin Railway Station terminus	gone
Derrimut	53 F4	Village Drive-in	Go-Kart track
Deer Park	25 A12	Dept of Supply Ravenhall Explosives Railway Siding[2]	gone
Deer Park	25 A12	ICIANZ Factories & Explosives Reserve [3]	Orica
Broadmeadows	6 J8	Broadstore Sidings [4]	Gone
Wantirna South	73 A1	Riddell Road	Gone
Macleod West	19 K5	Mont Park Railway Station	Gone
Preston	19 C11	Olympic Twin Drive-in theatre	Gone
Kensington	42 G3	Railway siding into MCC Abattoirs [5]	Housing
Kensington	42 G3	MCC Abattoirs	Housing
Kensington	42 H3	Army Ordnance Depot	Housing

I've also been cross-referencing the 8th edition of Gregory's Street Directory (1973) with the current Melway. This generally covers things not in the 1966 Melway. As the Melway is generally more comprehensive than the Gregory's, I'm presuming these are things built between 1966 and 1973, but now gone or changed.

Suburb	Gregorys ref.	Melway ref.	1966	2005
Altona North	154 A11	54 H6	C. O. R. railway station [6]	gone
Altona North	153 H4	54 E1	Hoyts Drive-in	gone
Ardeer	152	26 C7	Sunshine Tip	Carrington Drive Reserve

Other curios

• A thread on the aus.rail newsgroup regarding Hoffman's Sidings, a railway siding that ran from Jewell Station, into the Hoffman Brickworks [7]. Includes link to aerial photo of sidings [8]. Although dismantled in 1972, it does not appear in the 1966 Melway.
• Campbellfield Station is listed in the 1966 Melway, even though it was closed in 1956.
• A post on Railpage states that more copies of the Melbourne UBD are sold outside Victoria than inside [9].

Footnotes

1. ^ In the 8th edition of Gregory's Street Directory (1973), this is listed as Wiltona Migrant Hostel, presumedly a mix of Altona & Williamstown.
2. ^ According to the first issue of Somersault [10], the journal of the Signalling Record Society of Victoria, the Ravenhall Siding opened on 9 December 1943 for defence purposes. It was little used, and dismantled in 1977 or 1978.
3. ^ ICIANZ was the Australian and New Zealand arm of Imperial Chemical Industries
4. ^ The Broadstore Siding was perhaps dismantled in 1985. It left the Broadmeadows Line just north of Broadmeadows Station and headed east into Broadmeadows Military Camp and Broadmeadows Migrant Hostel. A thread about the line on Railpage [11] and a photo from 1987 [12].
5. ^ A thread on Railpage discussing this line [13].
6. ^ The Commonwealth Oil Refinery (COR) began operations in Altona in 1924.