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Newsrail notes that a contract had existed between the Victorian Railways and the Australian Paper Mill factory at Ovens; and that although this contract had expired in December 1973, an occasional wagon of pulp was still being moved, with two wagon-loads sighted on 16 January and another three on 8
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on 13 April 1987, the Yackandandah line from Everton having closed in December 1976.
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The line carried a variety of traffic, including many tourists to
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Benalla
Bright
Murray to the Mountains Rail Trail
V/Line
Bowser
Bright
Yackandandah line
Bowser
Myrtleford
Bright
Track gauge
Legend
North East line
Bowser
Londrigan
Tarrawingee
Everton
Yackandandah line
Brookfield
Bowman
Gapsted
Myrtleford
Ovens
Eurobin
Porepunkah
Bright
broad gauge
standard gauge
view

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