Bacchus Marsh railway station is located on the Serviceton line in Victoria, Australia. It serves the town of Maddingley, and it opened on 10 February 1887. A number of sidings once existed opposite the station and were used to stable trains. It also has an operational turntable, that is mainly used for turning steam locomotives on special trains. History Bacchus Marsh opened on 10 February 1887 as a temporary terminus of the line from Melbourne. On 4 December 1889, the line was extended to Ballan, which completed the direct Melbourne to Ballarat line. Like the town itself, the station was named after an early settler, Captain Bacchus. The contract for the construction of the station building was awarded in 1889, for £1809/8/11. A 45 lever interlocking frame, in a signal box, was brought into use in 1890. By this time, the station had a main platform, with a dock platform at the eastern end, a main line and crossing loop, turntable, and a number of sidings. The station was originally provided with a turntable. In 1957, it was replaced by a 70-foot unit. In the late 1940s, brown coal, mined at nearby Maddingley, began to be transported in large quantities by rail, with dedicated trains operating between Bacchus Marsh and the APM Siding, in the Melbourne suburb of Fairfield. The coal was used to fire the boilers at the Australian Paper Manufacturers paper mill, with 400 tonnes of coal per day transferred in two trains per day. This traffic continued until the late 1970s, when the boilers were converted to natural gas firing. Control of trains on the single track railway was controlled with the Electric Staff system until 1967, when the Automatic and Track Control (ATC) system was provided. At the same time, boom barriers replaced hand gates at the Parwan Road level crossing, located nearby in the Down direction, and remote control of the signals at Bank Box Loop was provided, with the same being done to the track towards Parwan Loop in 1987. Also during 1987, a number of changes to the station layout occurred, including the removal of a number of points, signals and their relevant posts, and the sleeving of a number of levers. In 1990, control of the signals at Rockbank were moved into the signal box. In 1993, No. 3 road was abolished, and in 1994, No. 3A road was abolished. As part