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Maddingley Mine

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Maddingley Mine is a mine near Bacchus Marsh Railway Station, Victoria, Australia, that contains a concentration of a particular brown coal (lignite) formation called Leonardite. A relatively high altitude formation, Maddingley brown coal is distinguished as having 60% moisture content and a rich fulvic acid and humic acid content. A declared strategic State mining reserve, the estimated 400 million tonne deposit at Maddingley is the largest of three known deposits of high value Leonardite in the world, the others occurring in Mexico and Germany.

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Maddingley Mine
East Maddingley Road, Shire of Moorabool

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N -37.705277777778 ° E 144.43944444444 °
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East Maddingley Road

East Maddingley Road
3340 Shire of Moorabool, Maddingley
Victoria, Australia
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Parwan railway station
Parwan railway station

Parwan is a closed station located in the town of Parwan, near Bacchus Marsh, on the Ararat railway line in Victoria, Australia. The station platform was on the southern side of the line. Today, Parwan is a crossing loop, permitting trains up to 969 metres long to cross. The station opened to unofficial traffic on 18 March 1886, with the line extended to Bacchus Marsh on 16 February 1887. By 1890, Parwan had a platform, goods shed, a 20-lever interlocked signal box and a three road yard. In 1920, the crossing loop at the up end of the station was extended, and became known as Works Siding. The Ballast Siding became the new main running line in September 1922, and the old main line became a siding, which closed in early 1923. Automatic staff exchangers were provided around May 1927. A new station building was erected on in 1948, along with a new signal frame. During 1983, the dead-end siding at the up end of No.2 track was shortened to 110m, and work commenced on extending the loop, as part of the CTC signalling system, which was being introduced on the Serviceton line. The former Works Siding was also discontinued in the same year, after a derailment involving passenger train The Overland. In 1984, the station was closed as a crossing point, with all points and signals removed, and the signal box abolished. It was replaced by the extended Parwan Loop, but was not closed for passengers until some time later. In 1987, the crossing loop was altered to be remotely controlled from Bacchus Marsh. By March of the same year, all facilities, including the platform, had been removed. As part of re-signalling with the Regional Fast Rail project, control was relocated to the Ballarat signal panel in 2005.

Pioneer Women's Memorial Avenue

The Pioneer Women's Memorial Avenue, located in Bacchus Marsh, Victoria, Australia commemorates the contributions of women to the development of the area. The Avenue was originally planted in 1936, the centenary of the settlement of Bacchus Marsh, by the local branch of the Country Women's Association. An avenue of Claret Ash trees was planted on the Western Highway, each tree honouring an individual woman settler. The CWA provided the trees, and the local council provided the tree-planting labour. Name plaques for each tree were paid for by public donations. A total of 276 trees were planted - a tree for every woman who was born or lived in the area prior to 1890. Indigenous Kulin women were named and recognised alongside white women. In 1995, a report by the Victorian Heritage Register showed that only 15-17 of the original trees had survived. In 2008, the Bacchus Marsh CWA applied for and received grants from the state government's Centenary of Women's Suffrage funds and the Shire of Moorabool council to re-develop the memorial. A rotunda, featuring information boards on the women commemorated in the avenue, and a monument, were added at Stamford Hill. These were unveiled in a ceremony on 2 August 2008. In December 2009, the Moorabool council nominated the Bacchus Marsh CWA's work on erecting the rotunda for the Community Event of the Year. In 2015, the Bacchus Marsh CWA published a book of biographies of the women commemorated in the avenue.