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Windsor railway station, Melbourne
Windsor is a railway station (station code 'WIN') in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. It serves the Sandringham line and is located in the suburb of Windsor. It is near the intersection of Chapel Street and Dandenong Road , and is 6.2 km by rail from Flinders Street Station in the city centre.
It was due to local annoyance at a level crossing near the station (now long since removed), that trains won the legal right-of-way at road-rail intersections in Victoria. Indignant at the delays to horse-drawn traffic caused by trains, one morning in 1869, local councillors from Prahran marched to the level crossing in question with a group of workers who then began to rip up the tracks. The matter was later brought to court, but the railways won the case.
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