Pic Nic railway station

Pic Nic railway station, alternatively Pic-Nic, Pic-nic[1] or Picnic, was a railway station in Melbourne, Australia. It was located on the Hawthorn line (now the Alamein, Belgrave and Lilydale lines), on the Melbourne side of the Hawthorn Railway Bridge,[2][3] between Church Street (now East Richmond) and Hawthorn stations.

The line to the station was opened by the Melbourne and Suburban Railway Company on 24 September 1860, and extended to Hawthorn in 1861 with the completion of the Hawthorn Railway Bridge across the Yarra River. The station closed on 19 July 1898.

The station was the scene of a serious accident on 2 December 1882, when two trains collided head-on. One person was killed and 178 injured when a special train, returning from land sales at Box Hill, collided with a scheduled train from Melbourne to Camberwell.[4]

References
  1. "PIC-NIC STATION". The Cornwall Chronicle. Launceston, Tas. 2 January 1861. p. 3. Retrieved 16 November 2011.
  2. Grieg, A. W. (14 September 1935). "Old Railway Stations Along the Hawthorn Line". The Argus. Melbourne, Vic. p. 7. Retrieved 15 November 2011.
  3. Map of Melbourne and Suburban Company Lines, 1857–1862, archived from the original on 8 August 2008, retrieved 15 November 2011
  4. "Disastrous Railway Accident". The Argus. 4 December 1882. Retrieved 19 July 2019.
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