VGR
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Gaze-grabber! Retro carriage now ready to roll
With it’s bold retro livery and carefully crafted timbers, VGR’s newly restored heritage refrigerator car is certain to turn heads as it gets rolling on the Castlemaine-Maldon tourist railway line for the first of many outings. Restoring the extremely rare early 1900s railway car has been a labour of love for the Victorian Goldfields Railways’…
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Now that’s a shed! Rail precinct steams ahead
Measuring a whopping 160 metres long by 15.5 metres wide, the freshly completed carriage stabling shed at Castlemaine Heritage Rail Precinct is one of the town’s largest buildings. “It’s a bl…. big shed,” VGR’s Castlemaine Heritage Rail Precinct caretaker Andrew Reynolds said on site on Friday. “It’s the biggest open shed in Castlemaine and it’s…
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Castlemaine base for Glenrowan film shoot
Castlemaine has been chosen as the base for next year’s anticipated filming of Glenrowan, the latest ambitious film project of established filmmaker Matthew Holmes. Holmes is the filmmaker behind 2016 bushranger film The Legend of Ben Hall and with Glenrowan turns his attention to portraying the final 48 hours of Ned Kelly’s life as a…