In the 1940s the small group of shops clustered around the Darebin Station on Heidelberg Road was a thriving shopping centre, in the days of one car and no car families. The trek to the Ivanhoe shops from the Fairy Hills-Darebin area was a major exercise up the hill and beyond – especially for people […]
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Duplication of Railway Line across Darebin Creek 1950-4
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 […]