Hughesdale Interchange Time-Table
The Hughesdale Interchange (a term that I made up), is where the Cranboune / Packenham train line connects with the 767 Bus.
Every time I venture past this spot, I wonder at the logic of placing the structure at GZ. It certainly seems superflious to requirements, until now. I've put a geocache here to highlight the spot and make others marvel at the logic that placed this structure at the indicated location.
Hughesdale railway station
Hughesdale is a railway station in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, located in the suburb of Hughesdale, on the Pakenham railway line and Cranbourne railway line. Hughesdale station is unmanned and is in Metcard Zones 1+2.
Hughesdale station is located at the eastern end of the Poath Road level crossing, which provides station access.
The station consists of two platforms, in an island format, with a large brick building at the Flinders Street end of the station. Myki machines, replacing the earlier Metcard machines removed during 2012, are located at the entrance to the platforms. A public telephone is located on Platform 2, and sheltered seating is available. Five bike racks and six lockers are located behind the main building, and fifty car parking places are available on the opposite side of Poath Road.
Hughesdale station opened on 28 February 1925. The station and suburb were named in honour of James Vincent Hughes, mayor of Oakleigh from 1924 to 1925 who, with the Poath Road Railway Station League, lobbied heavily for a new station for the area. In 1924 the League suggested the station be called "Hugheston", but in February 1925, shortly before the station opened, Victorian Railways decided its name would be "Hughesdale". Hughesdale was once the junction for the Outer Circle and Rosstown railway lines.
The train time-table for the Cranbourne Line can be found here
The train time-table for the Pakenham Line can be found here
767 - Southland - Box Hill via Chadstone, Jordanville, Deakin University
The 767 bus route is run by the Ventura Bus Line and departs from Southland Shopping Centre terminus and travels via Nepean Hwy, Chesterville Rd, Highview Rd, Brady Rd, Normanby Rd, Bignell Rd, Centre Rd, Mackie Rd, North Rd and Poath Rd to Hughesdale Railway Station. From Hughesdale Railway Station bus runs via Poath Rd and Dandenong Rd to Chadstone Shopping Centre then via Middle Rd, Warrigal Rd, Waverley Rd and Huntingdale Rd to Jordanville Railway Station. From Jordanville Railway Station bus runs via Huntingdale Rd, Highbury Rd, Station St, Burwood Hwy, Elgar Rd, Carrington Rd and Station St to Box Hill terminus.
The reverse direction is almost the same path
The Bus time-table to Southland can be found here
The Bus time-table to Box-Hill can be found here
The Container
The container is a 200ml sistema with the following initial contents;
- Stash note
- Log book
- Writing tool (thanks to the "assemble-it-yourself" store)
- 1m retractable tape measure
- Lego-like substitute girl figurine (slightly damaged) - donated by eldest geocachelette
- and my signature "circular collectable tag indicating that in some way, our paths have crossed" for a FTF prize
FTF honours goes to spiffy-, just barely beating Spladem to it, that is an achievement in itself.
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