Hillside is a closed station located in the town of Hillside

Hillside, Victoria

Hillside is a suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 23 km north-west from Melbourne's central business district. Its Local Government Area is the Shire of Melton and City of Brimbank. At the 2006 Census, Hillside had a population of 14,416...

, on the Bairnsdale railway line in Victoria

Victoria (Australia)

Victoria is the second most populous state in Australia. Geographically the smallest mainland state, Victoria is bordered by New South Wales, South Australia, and Tasmania on Boundary Islet to the north, west and south respectively....

, Australia

Australia

Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...

. It was 262 km from Southern Cross

Southern Cross railway station, Melbourne

Southern Cross is a major railway station and transport hub in Melbourne Docklands, Victoria, Australia. It is located on Spencer Street between Collins and La Trobe Streets at the western edge of the central business district...

 station. Although the station has been demolished, a siding is located at the station, which was last used by Freight Australia

Freight Australia

Freight Australia was a railway company in Australia. Initially known as Freight Victoria, it operated rail freight services and controlled non-urban rail track in the state of Victoria, later expanding into freight haulage in other states. Freight Australia was taken over by Pacific National in...

 for log trains prior to the complete line to Bairnsdale reopening. It also served for many years, with most of this infrastructure remaining, as a siding where bitumen was transported via rail for storage and on-distribution for road surfacing works in eastern Victoria.