Nobelius Siding | |||||||||||
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 The railway siding and former packing shed, in 2023 | |||||||||||
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| Coordinates | 37°55′54.5″S 145°26′58″E / 37.931806°S 145.44944°E | ||||||||||
| System | Puffing Billy Railway station | ||||||||||
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| Distance | 52.44 km (32.58 mi) from Flinders Street | ||||||||||
| Platforms | 1 | ||||||||||
| Tracks | 2 | ||||||||||
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| Status | Unstaffed | ||||||||||
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The Nobelius Siding is a heritage-listed railway siding, 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 (440 acres). Subsequently subdivided, a remnant four-hectare (ten-acre) portion has been retained as part of the heritage-listed Nobelius Heritage Park complex.
The former packing shed was restored by volunteers from the Puffing Billy Railway and is 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".