Menzies Creek

Worth seeing in and around Menzies Creek

3 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.

1. 01
   Puffing Billy Railway

   Puffing Billy Railway is a 2 ft 6 in narrow gauge heritage railway in the southern foothills of the Dandenong Ranges in Melbourne, Australia. The railway was one of the five narrow gauge lines of the Victorian Railways which opened around the beginning of the 20th century.

   4.5 km · heritage rail service in metropolitan Melbourne, Victoria, Australia · Wikipedia
2. 02
   Cardinia Reservoir

   The Cardinia Reservoir is a water supply reservoir formed as a result of the Cardinia Dam, a rock-filled embankment dam – and a series of seven supporting diversionary and saddle dams – across the Cardinia Creek and off-stream flows, located in Emerald–Clematis–Dewhurst in south-eastern suburbs of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Completed between 1970 and 1973 at a cost of more than A$11.4 million, the dam wall impounds 287 GL of water storage that is one of the principal sources of potable water for Greater Melbourne.

   3.8 km · reservoir in Emerald, Victoria, Australia · Wikipedia
3. 03
   Monbulk Creek Trestle Bridge

   The Monbulk Creek Rail Bridge, also known as the Monbulk Creek Trestle Bridge, the Puffing Billy Trestle Bridge, and the Horseshoe Bridge, is a railway trestle bridge that carries the Puffing Billy tourist train across the Monbulk Creek and over the Belgrave-Gembrook Road, located between Belgrave and Selby, in the Yarra Ranges, in the north eastern suburbs of Melbourne, in Victoria, Australia. Built in 1899 on the traditional lands of the Wurundjeri people, the bridge was added to the Victorian Heritage Register on 20 August 1982 in recognition of its historical, social, and architectural significance; and was also added to non-statutory lists by the Victorian branch of the National Trust on 18 September 1975 and the now defunct Register of the National Estate on 21 March 1978.

   3.8 km · heritage-listed railway bridge in the Yarra Ranges, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia · Wikipedia

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Getting to Menzies Creek

Airports

Melbourne (MEL), 57 km · Melbourne Avalon (AVV), 82 km

Stations

Belgrave (Puffing Billy) railway station, 4.5 km · Clematis railway station, 2.3 km · Emerald railway station, 3.7 km · Lakeside railway station, Melbourne, 5.4 km · Nobelius Siding, 4.5 km

• Melbourne → Menzies Creek

  40 km · quickest by road, 1h 14m · A$6–8
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• Geelong/Melbourne → Menzies Creek

  35 km · quickest by road, 1h 6m · A$5–7
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• Hobart (Cambridge) → Menzies Creek

  575 km · quickest by air, 6h 25m · A$270–400
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No local-transport research exists yet for Menzies Creek

Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Menzies Creek. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

If you know how people move in Menzies Creek – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.