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Thurs.18.3.21 Metro Twitter
From Thursday morning, the new platform will be opened [location not mentioned]. Access to the station is now via Endeavour Drive, requiring extra minutes when walking from the car park.
Werribee Street, Werribee closes at the new rail bridge from 8pm Friday 19 to 5am Saturday 27 March, for levelcrossing work. Please plan ahead and allow extrat time for the detour using the new Cherry Street bridge, or the crossing on Galvan Road to the west. #victraffic
11.42 Cranbourne line: Major delays (a motor vehicle damaging level-crossing equipment at Greens Road, Dandenong South). Trains may terminate/originate at Dandenong.
- 11.52 Clearing.
nothing else until Friday

MARCH 18 2021 Teen girl stabbed at Sydney station. Tiffanie Turnbull
Paramedics treated a teenage girl for multiple stab wounds at a train station in Sydney's northwest.
A teenage girl has been stabbed multiple times in front of horrified commuters at a Sydney train station.
Emergency services were called just after 4pm on Thursday on reports of a stabbing at the Rouse Hill station, where paramedics found the 16-year-old with stab wounds to her chest and arms.
"This was a challenging job, not only because of the patient's injuries, but also because it happened at a train station packed with commuters," NSW Ambulance Inspector Andrew McAlpine said in a statement.
"One of the main concerns paramedics have treating stab wounds is internal injuries, so getting her to hospital as quickly as possible was paramount."
The girl was rushed to Westmead Hospital in a serious condition.
Another girl, aged 15, is assisting police with their inquiries.
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Boronia history: Bung Siriboon, Nanette Ellis, Boronia Mall. Kimberley Seedy June 18, 2021 Knox Leader
From the Christmas parade and glory days of the mall, to the notorious level crossing and beloved pool, check out these amazing photos of Boronia.
video: Knox Council video: Boronia History.
Nestled at the bottom of the Dandenongs, the suburb of Boronia has a colourful history.
Part of the City of Knox, local councillor A.E. Chandler was asked to name the district in 1915. He chose Boronia, after the flower cultivated at the family nursery nearby at The Basin.
The area was home to orchards and flower farms, including Chandler’s daffodil farm.
The Boronia Daffodil Farm. Picture: The Rose Series, courtesy State Library Victoria
Kathy Trickey started the Facebook group Boronia “The good old days” on Facebook during last year’s Covid lockdown, and the group now has more than 5000 members, sharing photos and memories of the suburb’s history.
Ms Trickey, a 60s baby, said her mum and dad bought a house in Boronia in 1961.
“The main thing was the mall,” she said.
“The (Boronia) mall was such a stand out to us as kids, Knox City (shopping centre) wasn’t build back then, so in the 70s we all hung out at the mall.
Boronia Mall opened in 1973.
Ms Trickey said the mall was the most talked about topic in the Facebook group, with members upset at how run-down and empty it had become.
“It breaks out heart,” she said.
“People are definitely shopping locally a lot more and if they did (the mall up) and put better shops in there, people would shop there more.”
The mall used to be home to popular shops including Just Jeans and Venture, before they moved to Knox City.
The mall in 2011.
Ms Trickey said the Boronia Football Club was also a massive part of many lives, and remained so today.
“And the basketball stadium as we became teenagers; that’s where we hung out,” she said.
“And of course we were a dry suburb, there was no pubs, so that’s why we ventured out to Ferntree Gully and The Middle Hotel and places like that.”
Ms Trickey also has fond memories of The Marching Girls on Dorset Rd, who performed routines in purple uniforms.
She also remembers when the train line cut through Boronia, before the level crossing was removed.
The Boronia level crossing before it was removed in 1998.
“The crossing was such a major thing when we were young,” Ms Trickey said.
“If you got stuck at the crossing you could be there for 10 minutes because a train was coming.
“A lot of oldies would park in Safeway carpark and walk across and we used to walk through the arcades to get to mall.
“And those arcades were thriving in those days; it really was an amazing place to grow up.”
The then Boronia Shoppingtown in 1973.
The dangerous Boronia level crossing was the scene of many tragic deaths, with nine people killed in bus-train accident in 1952.
In 1990 a man in a wheelchair dressed as Santa Claus narrowly escaped being run over after he got caught in the level crossing.
Gary Willox, who was mowing his lawn nearby, ran to save the man, who was trying to cross at the intersection of Central Ave and Power Rd, Boronia, The Sunday Herald Sun reported.
Mr Willox said: “His front wheels were caught in the track because the ground has moved. He was stuck.” He lifted the man out of the way moments before a train went through.
Boronia also used to host a popular Christmas parade, with traffic stopped as local clubs marched down roads.
The Boronia Christmas parade in 1987. Photographer: Chris Rostron
Huge crowds gathered to watch the parade. Photographer: Tom Leigh
Many locals also loved visiting the Boronia Baths.
“My mum and dad caught me smoking there; I was 15 I am now 60,” Diane wrote on Knox Leader’s Facebook page.
“Spent so many summers right there,” Mark said.
The old Boronia pool. Picture: Knox Historical Society
On the Boronia: The Good Old Days page, residents also had fond memories of Boronia’s old police station on Chandler Rd, where you could go in on Wednesdays for scones and a cup of tea.
Others remembered going to dances at the Uniting Church Hall on Friday nights.
Another beloved part of Boronia is Metro Cinemas.
Owner Tom Schouten said Metro Boronia started life as an old-fashioned single-screen cinema in the early 1900s.
It had several different operators over the years until the Schouten family bought the business and opened it as Metro Cinemas in 2005.
The then-Century Cinemas in 1994.
Boronia has also been home to tragedy.
Nanette Ellis, 41, was stabbed to death in her Manuka Drive home on Friday, February 10, 1984.
Ms Ellis went to work as normal that day and made plans to go out to dinner that evening with a number of work colleagues.
At about 5.15pm, Ms Ellis was seen by a passer-by pulling into the driveway of her house in her yellow 1982 Toyota Corolla sedan.
Nanette Ellis was murdered in her Boronia home in 1984.
Sometime after entering the house, Ms Ellis was attacked by an unknown offender and stabbed a number of times.
It was just after 6pm when Ms Ellis’ youngest son Greg, then 16, discovered her fatally stabbed to death.
In 2014, Homicide Squad Detective Senior Sergeant Stuart Bailey said 30 years on, the motive for Nanette’s murder was still unknown and appealed for anyone with information to come forward and help provide some answers for her family.
“Ms Ellis was a friendly, 41-year-old single mother working as an advertising manager for the Free Press local newspaper when she was killed,” he said.
There is a $500,000 reward on offer for anyone with information on her death.
And this year marked the 10th anniversary of Siriyakorn “Bung’’ Siriboon’s disappearance from the streets of Boronia.
Bung, then 13, disappeared on June 2, 2011, after setting off from her home in Elsie St, Boronia to make the 10-minute walk to school.
Bung went missing on June 2, 2011.
Detective leading Senior Constable Justin Tippett of the homicide squad said police still held out hope of solving the case and urged anyone with information to come forward.
He said information continued to surface on a weekly basis, via phone calls and emails.
Bung’s stepfather Fred Pattison told the Sunday Herald Sun: “We’ve got to believe that she’s alive, we can’t believe otherwise.”
There is a $1 million reward for information on Bung’s disappearance.
The suburb has also not been without controversy, especially when it comes to development.
Many residents have protested the rising number of new units, after Boronia was identified as a Major Activity Centre.
The property development on Woodvale Rd attracted lots of attention for its strange design. Picture: Andrew Henshaw
Six two-storey dwellings being built in Woodvale Rd back in 2016 looked more like Federation Square, a local development protest group said.
And police targeted Boronia Junction shopping centre in 2017 after traders raised concerns about the area becoming “progressively worse” with people taking and dealing drugs, indecent exposure, graffiti, property damage and attempted thefts.
More Coverage
Knox: Then and now
Ferntree Gully: History of postcode 3156
How you know you’re from Ringwood
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* The train v bus crash in the early 50s that killed around 13 people was at a level crossing in Boronia.
* It was a nice place. Now it’s a dive with no spirit and too much graffiti

Demolition underway to rebuild Chadstone carpark Kim Wilson March 18, 2021
Some 1200 spaces have been temporarily removed from Chadstone as the car park is redesigned. Here’s where you can park and where to avoid.
Work is underway at Chadstone to add 850 new car park spaces. Picture: Supplied

Frederick Turner: Callous act that ensured a young bushranger hanged Jamie Duncan March 18, 2021
A 22-year-old on death row believed he would be spared the death sentence — but found himself on the end of the hangman’s noose.
Mains Bridge at Flemington, looking northwest up Flemington Rd, in 1870. Picture: City of Moonee Valley
Frederick Turner was a young man with a plan to rob his way through life.
Sadly for him, life as a bushranger led him to the gallows at the tender age of about 22.
And it didn’t matter at all that he admitted giving a false name to protect his family following his arrest, or that his true identity was never known.
Turner is the subject of the latest episode of the In Black and White podcast on Australia’s forgotten characters, available today.
Turner told the court that he arrived in Melbourne with his parents and brother aboard the William Jardine in 1849. But he told them little else about his past.
Turner shot one of two men he and two accomplices bailed up on Flemington Rd on Saturday, March 21, 1857.
Just over a month later, he was executed at the Old Melbourne Gaol.
Thomas Moore and James Taggart were returning from a big day at Flemington Racecourse and were near the toll gate at Mains Bridge, where Flemington Rd meets the Moonee Ponds Creek, when the three bushrangers pounced about 8.30pm.
In 1857, this was the very outer edge of Melbourne and was the main route to the goldfields in Castlemaine and Bendigo.
After dark, on the fringe of Royal Park, a couple of blokes on their way home from a big day at Flemington were considered fair game by Turner, Laurence Hoey and another man, who police said was John Wheeler.
The Old Melbourne Gaol circa 1861. Picture: State Library of Victoria
The three men demanded money from the men.
Hoey told them to stand still, and discharged a shot from his revolver close to Taggart’s head to reinforce the point.
He then rifled through Taggart’s pockets, stealing 20 shillings, while Turner grabbed 30 shillings from Moore as the third man looked on.
Then, as the bushrangers went to leave, Moore asked the gang to return half a crown (two shillings and six pence) to him.
Reports vary as to why Moore asked for monetary mercy. It may have been cab fare back to Melbourne. One report suggested it was to feed his children.
Either way, Turner was in no mood to negotiate. Instead, he committed an unspeakably callous act.
The Herald reported that Turner turned to Moore, said, “I’ll give you half a crown”, raised his pistol and fired at Moore’s head.
Incredibly, the bullet glanced the side of Moore’s head. The wound bled profusely but caused only a graze.
This map shows Melbourne and Flemington in 1855 [no, ~1860-67]. The scene of Turner’s crime was near Mains Bridge. Picture: City of Moonee Valley
As the bushrangers melted into the night, Moore and Taggart made for the nearby Parkside Hotel in North Melbourne, where a doctor named Crook was summoned.
Turner, Hoey and Wheeler were arrested several days later.
Turner had been with two other men, one with a gun, who robbed and beat two men in the Carlton Gardens about 8.30pm the following Wednesday.
The bushrangers escaped but one of the victims returned to the gardens with friends and chased down Turner, who was not armed.
Detectives later searched Turner’s house in Little Bourke St, locating a revolver and a pistol. The pistol had been fired recently.
Turner was also associated along with Hoey to an earlier highway robbery on two men at Essendon.
At a court hearing on April 7, 1857, Turner and Hoey were committed to stand trial for the robbery. Wheeler was discharged but was arrested outside the court in connection with another robbery.
Hoey and Turner were tried in the Victorian Supreme Court.
Both men pleaded not guilty to the charges, but on April 16, a jury disagreed.
The interior of the Old Melbourne Gaol, where Turner was hanged.
If Turner had hoped the judge and jury would see that the minor injury Moore suffered showed he had no intent to kill, and that they would look more favourably upon his case because of his youth, he was sorely mistaken.
That same day, Justice Edward Eyre Williams pronounced a sentence of death on Turner.
Hoey was sentenced to 15 years’ jail, the first three to be spent in irons, but he was later acquitted of the Essendon robbery.
Turner had already admitted that the name he gave to police was false.
“He declined to divulge his real name, but stated that the name of Turner was assumed, that his father and mother were in service in the interior, and that his brother had been for three years in the mounted police force,” The Herald said on April 28.
“A love of idleness and dissolute society he admitted had been his curse.”
But he sought counsel from a man of the cloth, The Argus reported on April 28, and admitted to a criminal past.
“Since his conviction he at various times confided to the Rev Mr Studdert various passages of his career, from which it is evident that his life has been one of crime and recklessness from the first,” The Argus’s scribe said.
The Argus report of Frederick Turner’s execution, published on April 28, 1857. Picture: Trove Collection, National Library of Australia
“He appears to have been of an idle and vagrant turn of mind, never disposed to remain in any situation for any length of time, roving, and unsettled and following without difficulty in the broad and steep paths of vice and lawlessness, never hesitating to rob where he would not work.
“His first sentence was one of 12 months’ imprisonment for vagrancy at Blackwood, which, for a breach of prison discipline, was extended to four months longer.”
Turner had only been out of prison two months before the Flemington and Carlton robberies.
The Herald said even on death row, Turner believed he would be spared the noose.
“Unceasingly did the holy man impress upon the culprit the utter hopelessness of mercy in this world, but still a lingering hope of a mitigation of sentence evidently dwelt upon Turner’s mind, till the near approach of the period at which he had been doomed to suffer.”
At precisely 8am on Monday, April 27, Frederick Turner hanged for his crimes.
Turner, a stocky man of 158cm with dark brown hair and blue eyes, wore new attire to his execution, according to The Argus.
It reported that Turner was stoic, going to the gallows with “firmness”, but struggled at the end of the rope for several minutes until he died.
— Listen to the interview with journalist Jamie Duncan about the life of Frederick Turner in the In Black and White podcast on iTunes, Spotify or Web. See In Black & White in the Herald Sun newspaper Monday to Friday for more stories and photos from Victoria’s past.
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