What was happening in the area 100 years ago this week? These are two railway related articles and are from the South Bourke & Mornington Journal of November 7, 1912. Available on Trove http://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper
South Bourke & Mornington Journal of November 7, 1912, page 2
Pakenham is a northern neighbour to the the Koo-Wee-Rup Swamp, however as this article is about both railways and place names - two of my favourite historical subjects - then I had to include it. The Gippsland line to Sale was opened in stages - Sale to Morwell June 1877, Oakleigh to Bunyip October 1877, Moe to Morwell December 1877, Moe to Bunyip March 1878 and the last stretch from South Yarra to Oakleigh in 1879. Originally the only Station open between Dandenong and Pakenham was at Berwick.
South Bourke & Mornington Journal of November 7, 1912, page 2
The article, above, lists all the revenue taken at the stations between Oakleigh and Bunyip, including the now defunct stop at the spur line that went to the Necropolis at Springvale and Jefferson's siding - a siding established for the Jefferson timber mill and later brick works at Garfield. It closed in May 1912. The Necropolis (or Springvale Botanical Cemetery as it is now blandly known as) opened for burials in March 1902 and the railway line from the Springvale Station opened in 1904 - February for visitors and March for mortuary trains. The Mortuary trains ceased in 1943 and the last visitor train was December 1950.
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