Shelley is a closed station located in the town of Shelley, on the Cudgewa railway line in Victoria, Australia. Today there is nothing left of the station. The station was the highest station in Victoria at 781 metres (2562 feet).
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Coordinates: 36°11′23″S 147°32′35″E / 36.18972°S 147.54306°E / -36.18972; 147.54306
Famous quotes containing the words shelley, railway and/or victoria:
“One word is too often profaned
For me to profane it,
One feeling too falsely disdained
For thee to disdain it;”
—Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822)
“Her personality had an architectonic quality; I think of her when I see some of the great London railway termini, especially St. Pancras, with its soot and turrets, and she overshadowed her own daughters, whom she did not understand—my mother, who liked things to be nice; my dotty aunt. But my mother had not the strength to put even some physical distance between them, let alone keep the old monster at emotional arm’s length.”
—Angela Carter (1940–1992)
“The men who are grandfathers should be the fathers. Grandpas get to do it right with their grandchildren.”
—Anonymous Grandparent. As quoted in Women and Their Fathers, by Victoria Secunda, ch. 2 (1992)