Balaclava railway station, Melbourne
in Balaclava, AustraliaCategory: Attraction
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Balaclava railway station is located on the Sandringham line in Victoria, Australia. It serves the south-eastern Melbourne suburb of Balaclava opening on 19 December 1859.It is an elevated station located above the Carlisle Street rail overpass. In 1981 the station buildings were reconstructed and was reconstructed again in 2013/14 as part of an upgrade to the station.
In 1996 two men found $200,000 in a drum buried beneath one of the platforms. They handed it into the police and the find was reported in the media. In the same week another man found a second drum under the platform containing a similar quantity of money, which he also turned into the police. As no one claimed the money, both men were granted ownership of the money they found, despite being considered trespassers on land owned by the Public Transport Corporation.
