The year was some time between 1950 and 1954 in the days when I was catching the train to Northcote High School from Darebin to Westgarth Stations. The then single line across the Darebin Creek, through Darebin Station to Ivanhoe Station, was to be duplicated over a single weekend. A miracle, we thought at the time. I think that was left over from earlier times when the line ended at Darebin Station on a single line. A second bridge had already been constructed across the creek and we all waited with great excitement until the time finally came to move the single like across to the new bridge and connect up the new line. Until then trains waiting to pass would be held up at Alphington Station at one end and Ivanhoe Station at the other. At Darebin there was only the single station building on what became the inward line. Finally the Monday came when, on the way to school early that exciting morning, we all marvelled with not a little fear as our train crawled its way across the bridge for the first time on the new tracks.
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