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About this blog: random thoughts, discoveries, ramblings. Much of this was originally composed as email to a local history mailing list, rather than being written specifically for publishing, so it's a little disjointed. I figured it was better to get it out to everyone else in rough form rather than not at all.
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I saw a historical image on PROV earlier today, probably from around the mid 1920s to 1930s. Since I was heading into that area I took a current photo from a similar position. The train line, boom gates and overhead wiring are long gone, but the commercial buildings in the background are apparently older than their current facade would suggest...
![](/openquestions/i/th_nthcarltoncrossing.jpg)
There is also another image of this location from a different year available at http://www.prov.vic.gov.au/images/12800/12800-p0003-000012-100.asp
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I noticed today that the signal box at Somerton (just south of Roxburgh Park station) has disappeared. I knew some time ago that it was going to be demolished - even though it is heritage listed - but because the Somerton Road railway overpass is pretty much complete I thought they'd found a way to preserve it. I guess I was wrong.
It's not the prettiest bit of infrastructure around, but it was working there for nearly 50 years. This photo was taken in early June 2007:
![](/openquestions/i/th_somertonbox.jpg)
UPDATE:Thankfully it wasn't demolished; it has been moved to Moorooduc to become part of a railway museum.
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I found some more images of Somerton station and the surrounding area on PROV. They have a very strange search system where if you do a main search you may not get back every result, or you only get partial listings. I asked them for assistance and was directed to another database:
http://proarchives.imagineering.com.au/index_search.asp?searchid=41
This one from 1899 clearly shows several buildings including the station, and possibly Somerton Road itself? If I've got my bearings right this would have been taken from the south-west corner of the crossing.
![](/openquestions/i/th12800-00001-000095-010.jpg) Click for full sized image: http://www.prov.vic.gov.au/images/12800/12800-00001-000095-010.asp
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This one looks like it's taken high up (from a signal arm?), probably just south of Somerton Road with Campbellfield and Fawkner visible in the distance. Going on the loco I think it would be dated 1950 or later:
![](/openquestions/i/th12800-P0004-000111-280.jpg) Click for full sized image: http://www.prov.vic.gov.au/images/12800/12800-P0004-000111-280.asp
There are 11 results in total, I won't link them all here.
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