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UPPER FERNTREE GULLY
UPPER FERNTREE GULLY
UPPER FERNTREE GULLY
UPPER FERNTREE GULLY
22 3/4 miles, 414 ft.
Station Opened: 4 Dec 1889
Dec 1889
Upper Ferntree Gully is opened as a broad gauge terminus station.
By the time of the official opening on Weds, 04th December 1889 the town had received the official name of Upper Ferntree Gully.
The name is descriptive of the place
Dec 1900
Tuesday 18th December 1900 Upper Ferntree Gully to Gembrook narrow gauge railway officially opened
Photo - Upper Ferntree Gully Railway Station from the Hotel showing the narrow gauge trucks in the yard prior to the line opening on 26 Aug 1900.
Photographer, Mark James Daniel.
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1922 VR Diagram
Photo courtesy of Victorian Railways. Net
STAFF AT UPPER FERNTREE GULLY STATION.
PROVic photo : H1369.
Other People associated with Upper Ferntree Gully Station
Other People associated with Upper Ferntree Gully Station
James Thomas Hermon & Sons and Hermon's Quarry
James Thomas Hermon & Sons and Hermon's Quarry
James Thomas Hermon and his son’s had two major connections with the Upper Ferntree Gully - Gembrook Railway Line
1. At Upper Ferntree Gully his quarry which had a private siding “Hermon’s Siding “ that connected into the line just before the Upper Ferntree Gully Station.
Rock from this quarry was used as ballast for the line.
2. And at Menzies creek / Aura - And some part in the construction of station which was built on his land. Both the Menzies Creek station and the Museum are built on parts of his land selection.
James Thomas Hermon
Date of Birth: born 1829 Liverpool, Lancashire, England
Date of Death: 8th March 1918 James Thomas Hermon dies aged 89
Emigrated : from London on the ship “Lidford” - arrival year in Victoria - not known circa 1846 - 1848
Worked as a sailor for some years in the colony, working mostly on vessels carrying cattle and merchandise between Melbourne and Tasmania.
He then join the crew of a vessel called the Garland Grove "which went around the world in search of cargo. Jumped ship at Cape Town and hung about Cape Town until a vessel from London, bound for Port Phillip with a cargo of steel and other merchandise, turned up
Lived at Sunbury worked as a 30b as cook for twenty-five sheep washers on John Aicken's run, and stayed there till 'Black Thursday
(6 February 1851) ,' when the bush fires swept the country clean.
And He then took up land at Ferntree Gully, lived thirty-five years on his Dairy farm property at Menzies Creek / Aura above Ferntree Gully. His son William lived next door to him.
He also owned the Quarry at Upper Ferntree Gully that supplied ballast rock for railway & local roads construction.
The quarry was latter managed by his son Henry ( Harry ) and his Dairy farm at Menzies Creek and bullock carting and road making business by his son William.
The Stone from Hermon’s quarry was used as Ballast in the lines construction
The Stone from Hermon’s quarry was used as Ballast in the lines construction
and it was also used by Local Shire Councils to make roads
The Ferntree Gully Shire Stone Crusher, at Ferny Creek in January 1916.
Photos courtesy of Old Ferntree Gully Shire History Facebook Page
Road making at Sassafras in January 1916.
Parish Map of Scoresby County of Mornington 1907
showing Hermon’s Quarry Location on the Railway line.
http://handle.slv.vic.gov.au/10381/103514
The Quarry was located as the “see Margin” in the top image.
Timeline of the Railway , Hermon’s Quarry & Siding and James Thomas Hermon
Timeline of the Railway , Hermon’s Quarry & Siding and James Thomas Hermon
1846 - 1848 Lidford / Lydford (barque), 260 tons, sailing between Manilla and Australia with cargo - James Thomas Hermon working as crew
1848 - 1850 Garland Grove (barque) - James Thomas Hermon working as crew
1851 James Thomas Hermon working as a 30b as cook for twenty-five sheep washers on John Aicken's run at Sunbury , and stayed there till 'Black Thursday (6 February 1851)
Oct 1878 Menzies Creek was opened for selection on 25th October 1878. James Hermon takes up Land selection at Menzies Creek
Dec 1884 The broad gauge railway from Ringwood to Upper Ferntree Gully was authorised by an Act of Parliament on Friday, 12th December 1884, at a cost of £79,715-00-00 ($159,430.00).
Mar 1888 Friday 9th March 1888 Contract let for the construction of the Ringwood to Upper Ferntree Gully broad gauge line of 7.5 miles at � The Australian 6th July, 1889 issue.
Dec 1889 Upper Ferntree Gully is opened as a broad gauge terminus station.
By the time of the official opening on Weds, 04th December 1889 the town had received the official name of Upper Ferntree Gully.
July 1896 Nunawading & Ferntree Gully Shire Councils call on Railway Commissioners for Quarry Siding to be constructed - reported in Argus Newspaper 3 July 1896
Jun 1898 Tuesday 28th June 1898 Parliamentary Standing Committee recommend construction of the Upper Ferntree Gully to Gembrook narrow gauge railway.
Aug 1898 Monday 15th August 1898 Construction of the Upper Ferntree Gully to Gembrook line authorised by the Colonial Parliament.
Dec 1900 Tuesday 18th December 1900 Upper Ferntree Gully to Gembrook narrow gauge railway officially opened, with stations at Monbulk (2 tracks), Menzies Creek (2 tracks), Emerald (2 tracks), Devon (2 tracks) and Gembrook (3 tracks). Stops also at Water Tanks, and Cockatoo Creek for water.
Oct 1906 Oct 1906 - Hermon paid £ 2 10s for work done at Aura Station by the Ferntree Gully Shire Council - reported in the Reporter page 2 - 12th Oct 1906
Nov 1915 Wed 3rd Nov 1915 Henry Herman and A. Gillis were fined 10/, and 5/ costs for failing to register their quarrying works at Upper Gully as a factory within the meaning of the factories acts at the Fern Tree Gully Court.
Reported in Fern Tree Gully Court. (1915, November 12). Reporter , p. 6. http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article75164175
April 1916 Fri 14th April 1916 Quarry Accident. - Two Men Severely Injured.
A serious accident occurred al Messrs. Hermon and Gillis's stone-crushing quarry, Ferntree Gully, yesterday. Two employees, Roy Hermon, aged 21 years, and John Begh, aged 22 years, a foreigner, fell to the bottom of the quarry, a distance of between 50ft. and 60ft sustaining dreadful injuries. Roy Hermon dies of his injuries in hospital.
1917 Hermon and Gillis fined £ 1 for Occupying unregistered factory at Ferntree Gully https://www.parliament.vic.gov.au/papers/govpub/VPARL1917NoC1.pdf
Mar 1918 8th March 1918 James Thomas Hermon dies aged 89
1919 Circa 1919 - Quarry is now owned by Mr. A. Gillies
Oct 1920 Malvern Municipal Quarry. Malvern Council on Monday evening negotiations for the purchase from Mr. A. Gillies of his quarry at Fern Tree Gully, for the sum of £6000, were completed 1st inst. The' Mayor (Cr. R. H. Francis) slated that the terms of purchase were ,£1000 down and £1000 per year until the purchase was completed, with 6 per cent, interest.
Reported in Malvern Municipal Quarry. (1920, October 9).
The Prahran Telegraph p. 5. http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article165156155
Jun 1921 21st June 1921 - Hermons Siding renamed to Gillis Quarry Siding
Jan 1923 Sunday 14th January 1923 Collision at Hermons Siding, Upper Ferntree Gully with empty carriages. 10.45am down shunted onto Empty Carriages.
Feb 1924 26th Feb 1924 Gillis Quarry Siding renamed Malvern City Council Siding
Malvern City Council purchases Quarry ( note: in article the date given of purchase as 1919 ) - reported in City Of Malvern. (1924, February 1).
The Argus , p. 18. http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article1927546
Oct 1925 The line to Upper Ferntree Gully was electrified during 1925 and electric trains commenced operation from Monday, 30th November 1925, although the first electric train is believed to have arrived on Monday, 12th October 1925.
April 1941 1st April 1941 Quarry Siding discontinued
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