Nobelius Siding
Nobelius Siding | |||||||||||
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| Puffing Billy Railway station | |||||||||||
Nobelius Siding station and platform, January 2022 | |||||||||||
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| Coordinates | 37°55′54.5″S 145°26′58″E / 37.931806°S 145.44944°E | ||||||||||
| Line(s) | Gembrook | ||||||||||
| Distance | 52.44 km (32.58 mi) from Flinders Street | ||||||||||
| Platforms | 1 | ||||||||||
| Tracks | 2 | ||||||||||
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| Status | Unstaffed | ||||||||||
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Nobelius Siding is situated on the Puffing Billy Railway in Emerald. The siding was built in 1904 to serve the adjacent packing shed, built in the same year, from which nursery seedlings and plants were shipped throughout Australia by C.A. Nobelius' Gembrook Nurseries. The Nobelius nursery was once the largest plant nursery in the Southern Hemisphere with 200,000 trees grown on 180 hectares.
The Packing Shed has been restored by Puffing Billy volunteers and is now used by the Railway as a function centre, particularly as a venue for Puffing Billy’s various evening dining experiences, such as "Murder on the Puffing Billy Express".