Highett railway station
in Highett, AustraliaCategory: Attraction
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Highett, Train St & Railway Pde, Highett VIC 3190, Australia Print route »
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Highett railway station is located on the Frankston line, in Victoria, Australia, serving the south-eastern Melbourne suburb of Highett. It opened on 19 December 1881 as Highett Road, and was renamed Highett on 14 December 1885.The station was built under the endorsement of Thomas Bent, who ordered the railway line be redirected through Highett, but also demanded a higher standard of departmental residences than elsewhere. The current station building was erected in 1883-1884, and was refurbished in 1966, It was refurbished again in 1986, after it was damaged by fire during the previous year.In 1925, a parcel train hit a car at the nearby Wickham Road railway crossing, killing nine people inside the car. The gatekeeper was found not guilty to the charge of manslaughter, the jury finding the incident was due to the fault of the system, and not through human negligence. In 1932, there was a shootout between a policeman and a burglar, who was killed.A former lamp room and a wood yard were abolished in 1973.
