Discover Sherbrook
The district Sherbrook of in Victoria is a district in Australia about 276 mi south-west of Canberra, the country's capital city.
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Local weather forecast
Todays Local Weather Conditions & Forecast: 12°C / 53 °F
Morning Temperature | 11°C / 52 °F |
Evening Temperature | 11°C / 51 °F |
Night Temperature | 10°C / 50 °F |
Chance of rainfall | 2% |
Air Humidity | 90% |
Air Pressure | 1025 hPa |
Wind Speed | Light breeze with 4 km/h (2 mph) from South |
Cloud Conditions | Overcast clouds, covering 100% of sky |
General Conditions | Light rain |
Tuesday, 30th of April 2024
14°C (57 °F)
6°C (43 °F)
Broken clouds, gentle breeze.
Wednesday, 1st of May 2024
15°C (59 °F)
8°C (46 °F)
Sky is clear, light breeze, clear sky.
Thursday, 2nd of May 2024
17°C (63 °F)
8°C (47 °F)
Sky is clear, light breeze, clear sky.
Hotels and Places to Stay
Candlelight Cottage
Gracehill
Holly Lodge
Mountain Element Retreats
Lifestyle Apartments at Ferntree
Rocky Creek Art Garden B&B
The Loft In The Mill Boutique Accommodation
Arnica Views
Credo Cottages
Lochiel Luxury Accommodation
Videos from this area
These are videos related to the place based on their proximity to this place.
HAIL STORM 6th March 2010
Less than 10mins after sweating in the sun walking around Olinda, the temperature dropped rapidly and we were being hit by tennis ball sized (yes, tennis ball!) hailstones in Ferny Creek!
Melbourne Hailstorm March 6th 2010
Hailstorm in the Dandenong Ranges near Melbourne. 6th March 2010. Noisy and violent!
A trip on Puffing Billy.
On a cold, wet, Thursday in May 2005 I took a ride on the 'Puffing Billy' train from Belgrave to Lakeside, just on the outskirts of Melbourne. Heritage carriages hauled by a NA class, steam...
1711 & 861 Transfer to Emerald 5-2-13
On 5/2/13 1711 & 861 ran a transfer train early morning to Emerald setting down and collecting wagons along the journey. please enjoy. Please note that this is my first attempt at editing and...
Puffing Billy Highlights - Belgrave near Melbourne to Lakeside.
Highlights of a trip on the steam train Puffing Billy from Melbourne Belgrave to Lakeside and back. This century-old steam train is still running on its original mountain track from Belgrave...
A very old petrol dispenser being used by Sassafras Cafe in Mount Dandenong Melbourne
We spotted these fuel pumps on our journey through Sassafras at Mount Dandenong in Melbourne. Both of these fuel dispensers work and they dispense both petrol and diesel fuel. Payments have...
100 Years of Garratt Locomotives: G42 - Puffing Billy 16/8/09
To celebrate 100 years of the Garratt type of locomotive, Puffing Billy used G42 on a special excursion to Cockatoo on August 16, 2009. G42 was the only operational Garratt in Australia at...
Puffing Billy Leaving Belgrave Station
This is the first five minutes of Puffing Billy when it pulls out of Belgrave Station. The journey to Lakeside takes a little over a hour, however that depends on the other trains as well,...
Puffing Billy, Victoria, Australia - Dec 2005
Puffing Billy is Australia's favourite steam train and one of the finest preserved steam railways in the world. This century-old steam train continues to run on its original mountain track...
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Attractions and noteworthy things
Distances are based on the centre of the city/town and sightseeing location. This list contains brief abstracts about monuments, holiday activities, national parcs, museums, organisations and more from the area as well as interesting facts about the region itself. Where available, you'll find the corresponding homepage. Otherwise the related wikipedia article.
Puffing Billy Railway
The Puffing Billy Railway is a narrow gauge 30 gauge heritage railway in the Dandenong Ranges near Melbourne, Australia. The primary starting point, operations and administration centre, main refreshment room (also selling souvenirs) and ticket purchasing are located at Belgrave station. Journeys may also be commenced at out-stations of which some have limited facilities for the purchase of tickets, refreshments and souvenirs.
The Basin, Victoria
The Basin is a suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 31 km east from Melbourne's central business district. Its Local Government Area is the City of Knox. At the 2006 Census, The Basin had a population of 4108.
Belgrave, Victoria
Belgrave is a suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 35 km east from Melbourne's central business district. Its local government area is the Shire of Yarra Ranges. At the 2006 Census, Belgrave had a population of 4094. Belgrave is only 16 years younger than Melbourne CBD.
Belgrave Heights, Victoria
Belgrave Heights is a suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 38 km south-east from Melbourne's central business district. Its Local Government Area is the Shire of Yarra Ranges. At the 2006 Census, Belgrave Heights had a population of 1441. Belgrave Heights Post Office opened on 1 August 1938 as settlement began in the area, and closed in 1977. In February 1983, the Ash Wednesday fires swept through the area, destroying many houses.
Ferny Creek, Victoria
Ferny Creek is a suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 33 km south-east of Melbourne's central business district. Its Local Government Area is the Shire of Yarra Ranges. At the 2006 Census, Ferny Creek had a population of 1536. The suburb is built around and to the south of Dunns Hill (height 561m) with most of Ferny Creek lying between 400 and 500 metres above sea level.
Olinda, Victoria
Olinda is a suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 36 km east of Melbourne's central business district. Its local government area is the Shire of Yarra Ranges. At the 2006 Census, Olinda had a population of 1568.
Kallista, Victoria
Kallista is a locality within Greater Melbourne beyond the Melbourne metropolitan area Urban Growth Boundary, 36 km south-east from Melbourne's central business district. Its local government area is the Shire of Yarra Ranges. At the 2006 Census, Kallista had a population of 1032.
Selby, Victoria
Selby is a suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 37 km south-east from Melbourne's central business district. Its local government area is the Shire of Yarra Ranges. At the 2006 Census, Selby had a population of 1396. The town hosts the second station on the narrow-gauge railway to Gembrook.
Sassafras, Victoria
Sassafras is a locality and township within Greater Melbourne beyond the Melbourne metropolitan area Urban Growth Boundary, 43 km east of Melbourne's central business district. Its local government area is the Shire of Yarra Ranges. At the 2006 Census, Sassafras had a population of 968. It is located at an altitude of approximately 500 metres, near the top of the ridgeline of the Dandenong Ranges, a few kilometres south of the highest peak of Mount Dandenong.
Sherbrooke, Victoria
Sherbrooke is a settlement in Victoria, Australia, 35 km east of Melbourne. Its local government area is the Shire of Yarra Ranges. At the 2006 census, Sherbrooke had a population of 196. Permanent European settlement began with the building by a retired sea-captain, Robert W. Graham, of a log hut,, hand-cut from the forest, using horizontal-slab wall construction, an adobe floor, weatherboards and a sapling/shingle roof.
Tecoma, Victoria
Tecoma is a town in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 34 km east from Melbourne's central business district. Its local government area is the Shire of Yarra Ranges. At the 2006 Census, Tecoma had a population of 2,189. The town is named after the shrub that grew in the area when the need was identified for a railway station for the timber mill that occupied the site where Tecoma Primary School now stands. The Post Office opened on 7 January 1929, closing in 1976.
Tremont, Victoria
Tremont is a suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 31 km south-east of Melbourne's central business district. Its local government area is the Shire of Yarra Ranges. At the 2006 Census, Tremont had a population of 4094. Almost the entire suburban area is within the Dandenong Ranges National Park. The Post Office opened on 16 July 1913, was known as Dunstan's until 1919, and closed in 1977. Tremont was affected by the Dandenong Ranges fire of 22 January 1997.
Upwey, Victoria
Upwey is a suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 32 kilometres east from Melbourne's central business district. Its local government area is the Shire of Yarra Ranges and City of Knox. At the 2006 Census, Upwey had a population of 6,760. Upwey South is a colloquial term for the area directly south of the township, but is not an official suburb.
Upwey railway station, Melbourne
Upwey is a railway station in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, located in the suburb of Upwey, on the Belgrave railway line. Upwey is unstaffed and is in Metlink Zone 2.
Tecoma railway station
Tecoma is a railway station in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, located in the suburb of Tecoma, on the Belgrave railway line. Tecoma is unmanned and is in Metlink Zone 2. In 2009 it was the fourth least used metropolitan railway station in Melbourne, with an average of 310 passenger boardings per day.
Belgrave railway station
This article is about the suburban railway station. For the Puffing Billy Railway station, see Belgrave (Puffing Billy) railway station Belgrave {{#invoke:InfoboxImage|InfoboxImage|image=BelgraveStation1.
Belgrave (Puffing Billy) railway station
Belgrave (Puffing Billy) railway station is situated in Belgrave, a suburb of Melbourne in the Australian state of Victoria. It is the inner terminal of the famous Puffing Billy heritage steam railway. It is adjacent to, and forms an interchange with, Belgrave suburban railway station which is the outer terminal of the Belgrave line of Melbourne's broad gauge (5 ft 3in) electric suburban network.
Selby railway station, Melbourne
Selby Station was opened in May 1904, and named after the local landowner and Shire President W. Selby. The station consists of a short platform and corrugated iron waiting shelter. Trains do not normally stop here, but will stop if required.
Burnham Beeches (Australia)
Burnham Beeches is a 1930s streamline-moderne mansion built for Aspro-brand sales magnate Alfred Nicholas on Sherbrooke Road, Sherbrooke, Victoria in the Dandenong Ranges, 40 kilometres from Melbourne, Australia.
Mater Christi College
Mater Christi is a Catholic girls' secondary college located in the eastern Melbourne suburb of Belgrave, Victoria, Australia. The school was founded by the Sisters of the Good Samaritan religious order in 1963 outside Belgrave, overlooking the Dandenong Ranges of Victoria. A rapidly growing population in the Eastern suburbs of Melbourne saw Mater Christi College grow, and today there are more than 1000 girls enrolled at the college, including students from several Asia-Pacific countries.
Sherbrooke Forest
Sherbrooke Forest lies at an altitude of 300 m within the Dandenong Ranges, 40 km east of Melbourne, in Victoria, Australia, close to the suburb of Belgrave. The vegetation is classified as wet sclerophyll forest with the dominant tree species the Mountain Ash, Eucalyptus regnans, the tallest flowering plant in the world. From the mid 19th century until 1930 it was logged.
The Basin Music Festival
The Basin Music Festival is held in March each year in the small fringe suburb/village of The Basin at the foot of Mount Dandenong, on the eastern outskirts of Melbourne, Australia. Growing out of the music found in the community, the festival presents a very eclectic blend of musical styles from jazz and blues to rock, folk, country and Celtic with some world music and a cappella and a touch of orchestral and specialised bands/acts.
Shire of Sherbrooke
The Shire of Sherbrooke was a local government area about 40 kilometres east of Melbourne, the state capital of Victoria, Australia. The shire covered an area of 191.66 square kilometres, and existed from 1963 until 1994. Its largest population centre was the town of Belgrave.
National Rhododendron Gardens
The National Rhododendron Gardens are situated in the township of Olinda, Victoria, Australia, less than 5 minutes from the centre of town. In 1960, members of the then Ferny Creek Horticultural Society, started another group known as the Australian Rhododendron Society. This new group got permission from the Forest Commission to establish a rhododendron garden on a 20 ha site, in 1975 a further 20 ha was given.
Belgrave Heights Christian School
Belgrave Heights Christian School is a small primary and secondary school in Belgrave Heights near Belgrave in the Dandenong Ranges 36 km east of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. It is located at the end of Wattle Valley Road which is off Mount Morton Road (a continuation of McNicol Road which intersects with Burwood Highway in Tecoma). There are around 250 secondary students and 200 primary students.