Lyonville is a town located in the Shire of Hepburn, 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...

. East of Daylesford

Daylesford, Victoria

Daylesford is a town located in the Shire of Hepburn, Victoria, Australia. It is a former goldmining town about 115 kilometres north-west of Melbourne, in the foothills of the Great Dividing Range. At the 2006 census, Daylesford had a population of 3,073...

 on the Trentham

Trentham, Victoria

Trentham is a small town in the Shire of Hepburn and Shire of Moorabool Local government area, Victoria, Australia. At the 2006 census, Trentham had a population of 629.Located at an altitude of , the town is north-west of Melbourne.-History:...

 road, the town takes its name from James Lyon who had arrived in the Glenlyon

Glenlyon, Victoria

Glenlyon is a small town in the Shire of Hepburn Local Government Area, Victoria, Australia. The town is situated around 10 km from Daylesford along the Daylesford - Malmsbury Road, and around 100 km from the Melbourne CBD. The town sits next to the Loddon River.-History:In 1846, Richard Babington...

 district in the 1860's. At the 2006 census

Census in Australia

The Australian census is administered once every five years by the Australian Bureau of Statistics. The most recent census was conducted on 9 August 2011; the next will be conducted in 2016. Prior to the introduction of regular censuses in 1961, they had also been run in 1901, 1911, 1921, 1933,...

, Lyonville had a population of 156.

Lyonville Post Office opened on 15 May 1882 and closed in 1993.

The Lyonville railway station

Lyonville railway station, Victoria

Lyonville Railway Station is a railway station in Lyonville, Victoria, Australia. The station was opened on Wednesday, 17 March 1880, and closed on Monday, 3 July 1978....

 was a stage of the Carlsruhe

Carlsruhe, Victoria

Carlsruhe is a small rural town in the Shire of Macedon Ranges between Woodend and Kyneton, alongside the old Calder Highway, although now bypassed bypassed by the Calder Freeway. It is approximately 50 minutes from both Melbourne and Bendigo...

 to Daylesford line until it closed in 1978.
The Daylesford Spa Country Railway

Daylesford Spa Country Railway

The Daylesford Spa Country Railway is a volunteer-operated broad gauge tourist railway located in Victoria, Australia. It operates on a section of the formerly disused and dismantled Daylesford line...

tourist railway is planning extensions of the track to Lyonville in the future.