Tourist Railways and Rail Trails
Many of the lines in Gippsland have closed because they had become uneconomic. Some of these have been turned into tourist railways including:
- the Walhalla Goldfields Railway between Moe and Walhalla; and
- the South Gippsland Railway between Leongatha, Korumburra and Nyora.
Other stretches of line have become rail trails for use by bicyclists. These include:
- the Noojee Trestle Bridge Trail in the upper reaches of the Latrobe River;
- a section between Erica and the Thomson River on the former Walhalla line (pending eventual reconstruction of the Walhalla Goldfields Railway's tourist line between Thomson and Erica stations).;
- Collins Siding to Tyers Valley Rail Trail near Moe;
- Moe to Yallourn Rail Trail;
- Mirboo North to Boolarra Rail Trail;
- Great Southern Rail Trail from Leongatha to Foster;
- Bass Coast Rail Trail Anderson to Wonthaggi;
- East Gippsland Rail Trail from Bairnsdale to Nowa Nowa, and in 2005 being extended to Orbost; and the
- Gippsland Plains Rail Trail from Stratford to Maffra.
Read more about this topic: Orbost Railway Line
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