Wodonga railway station

Wodonga is a railway station located on the Albury-Wodonga line, serving the city of Wodonga, Victoria, Australia. Since November 2008 the station has been closed to V/Line rail services, the passenger service being provided by road coaches. In 2010 the original 1873 station and rail route through the city was decommissioned, with a new station being opened on a new alignment on the northern edge of Wodonga.Platforms and servicesAlbury-Wodonga line - Dual standard gauge line between Albury and Seymour, bypassing the town to the north. The broad gauge line closed to be converted to standard gauge in 2008.HistoryAs a terminusWodonga station was the original terminus of Victoria's North Eastern Railway which was built during the 1870s, reaching Wodonga in 1873. The connection through to the standard gauge system across the Murray River to Albury was not completed for a few years, partly because the New South Wales standard gauge system had not yet extended as far south as Albury.Eventually the NSW system was extended southwards from its originating terminus in Sydney to Albury, but the terminals of the broad and standard gauge systems remained separated by the Murray River and a few miles of its surrounding swampy flatlands and billabongs. Intercolonial rivalries were settled by the building of lines and bridges of both gauges across the border river flats with both Albury and Wodonga being transfer stations, this connection being completed in 1883. Albury later became the passenger interchange station and the major freight transshipment point.