Serviceton, Victoria

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Serviceton
Victoria

Platform side of Serviceton railway station

Established:

1887

Postcode:

3420

Elevation:

119 m

Location:

437 km from Melbourne
294 km from Adelaide (SA)
139 km from Horsham

LGA:

West Wimmera Shire

State District:

Lowan

Federal Division:

Mallee

Mean Max Temp	Mean Min Temp	Rainfall
21.2 °C ^{70 °F}	8.1 °C ^{47 °F}	490 mm ^{19.3 in}

Serviceton is a small town in Victoria, Australia, located near the Victorian-South Australian border, 437 kilometres north-west of Melbourne. The town was named after Sir James Service, Premier of Victoria in 1880 and from 1883-86.

When the Victorian and South Australian railways were joined at the old border in 1887, a station was built on the border. The border was intended to be on the 141 degrees east meridian but, owing to a surveying error, border markers were placed 3.6 km west of the meridian. Victoria finally succeeded in having the erroneously surveyed border declared to be the legal border in 1913, and therefore Serviceton is now fully in Victoria.^[1] Nevertheless, the old South Australian Railways, and its successors, the Australian National Railways Commission, the National Rail Corporation and the Australian Rail Track Corporation have continued to own the railway to Serviceton outright.

Town side of the Serviceton railway station

The town is the subject of a Tom Waits song entitled Town With No Cheer from his album Swordfishtrombones.^[2]

[edit] Notes

^ Serviceton. Travel. The Sydney Morning Herald (February 8, 2004). Retrieved on 2007-02-05.
^ Swordfishtrombones. ANTI-. Retrieved on 2007-03-25.

Coordinates: 36°22′S 140°59′E

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Serviceton, Victoria

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