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- Yarra_Track abstract "The Yarra Track is the former name of the gold fields road from Healesville to the Woods Point and Jordan Goldfields, in Victoria, Australia. A direct route via the Yarra River and the Great Divide, was discovered by Reick in September 1862. This became known as the `Yarra Track’. Early in 1863, the Government decided to construct a road along the route. Its original width varied between 12 and 20 feet, and was designed to accommodate horse-drawn vehicles. This Track involved the climbing of the Black Spur, descent into the Acheron Valley, and then through Marysville to the Cumberland where it followed the existing route. The old route through Paradise Plains subsequently dropped out of vogue. In 1865, the first drays and wagons reached Woods Point via the Yarra Track, but they could only get through during the summer months. The Yarra Track shortened the trip to Woods Point from Melbourne to a little over one hundred miles, compared with two hundred and twenty miles via Jamieson. Clement Wilks, an engineer with the Victorian Department of Roads and Bridges, was a member of the Yarra Track Committee responsible for building this coach and dray road, designing a number or small bridges and culverts including the Wilks Creek Bridge, on the Marysville Road, and Big Culvert.Two main construction camps were established in new localities on the Yarra Track at Healesville and Marysville. These were surveyed as towns to serve as base camps for construction teams and as staging towns when the coach route was completed. Marysville was founded and surveyed in August, 1864. Healesville was surveyed in September 1864, which resulted in the deviation of the settlement at New Chum. Healesville was at the furthest point coaches could travel along the route from Melbourne. From there, a packhorse track climbed through the mountains to the diggings. Shanties were built every five or six miles from New Chum to the diggings. Accommodation houses and stores were strung along the rest of the road. The Black Spur section became a popular tourist destination and sought after location for notable early photographers in Victoria, such as Nicholas Caire and J.W. Lindt. In 1916 a bus service was introduced, taking travellers over the route in two twelve-seater Buick charabancs. The journey from Melbourne took four and a half hours.".
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- Yarra_Track wikiPageOutDegree "17".
- Yarra_Track wikiPageRevisionID "567014279".
- Yarra_Track wikiPageWikiLink Acheron_River_(Victoria).
- Yarra_Track wikiPageWikiLink Black_Spur.
- Yarra_Track wikiPageWikiLink Category:History_of_Victoria_(Australia).
- Yarra_Track wikiPageWikiLink Charabanc.
- Yarra_Track wikiPageWikiLink Clement_Wilks.
- Yarra_Track wikiPageWikiLink Great_Dividing_Range.
- Yarra_Track wikiPageWikiLink Healesville,_Victoria.
- Yarra_Track wikiPageWikiLink J.W._Lindt.
- Yarra_Track wikiPageWikiLink Jamieson,_Victoria.
- Yarra_Track wikiPageWikiLink Jordan_River_(Victoria).
- Yarra_Track wikiPageWikiLink Marysville,_Victoria.
- Yarra_Track wikiPageWikiLink Nicholas_Caire.
- Yarra_Track wikiPageWikiLink The_Big_Culvert.
- Yarra_Track wikiPageWikiLink Wilks_Creek_Bridge.
- Yarra_Track wikiPageWikiLink Woods_Point,_Victoria.
- Yarra_Track wikiPageWikiLink Yarra_River.
- Yarra_Track wikiPageWikiLink File:Upper_Thomson_Monument_001.JPG.
- Yarra_Track wikiPageWikiLinkText "Yarra Track".
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- Yarra_Track subject Category:History_of_Victoria_(Australia).
- Yarra_Track hypernym Name.
- Yarra_Track comment "The Yarra Track is the former name of the gold fields road from Healesville to the Woods Point and Jordan Goldfields, in Victoria, Australia. A direct route via the Yarra River and the Great Divide, was discovered by Reick in September 1862. This became known as the `Yarra Track’. Early in 1863, the Government decided to construct a road along the route. Its original width varied between 12 and 20 feet, and was designed to accommodate horse-drawn vehicles.".
- Yarra_Track label "Yarra Track".
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- Yarra_Track wasDerivedFrom Yarra_Track?oldid=567014279.
- Yarra_Track depiction Upper_Thomson_Monument_001.JPG.
- Yarra_Track isPrimaryTopicOf Yarra_Track.