Clyde is a suburb of
Melbourne
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,
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, 48 km south-east of Melbourne's
Central Business District
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, located within the
City of Casey
The City of Casey is a local government area in Victoria, Australia in the outer south-eastern suburbs of Melbourne. Casey is Victoria's most populous municipality, with a 2021 population of 365,239. It has an area of .
The city is named afte ...
local government area
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. Clyde recorded a population of 11,177 at the
2021 census.
History
Clyde Post Office on the Berwick-Cranbourne Road opened on 25 January 1864. In 1915 it was renamed Clyde North, and Clyde Railway Station office (open since 1888) was renamed Clyde.
Description
The town centre is located in a small triangle between Twyford Road, Clyde-Five Ways Road and Ballarto Road and contains
primary school CFA fire station, general store and community hall. Nearby are the Inghams poultry feed mill, built in 1979, and Lineham Oval, a sports oval which is home to the Clyde club in the West Gippsland Cricket Association.
Transport
Clyde railway station was formerly situated on the
South Gippsland railway
The South Gippsland Railway was a Heritage railway, tourist railway located in South Gippsland, Victoria (Australia), Victoria, Australia. It controlled a section of the former South Gippsland railway line between Nyora, Victoria, Nyora and Le ...
corridor that operated to its terminus at Yarram in the early 1980s and Leongatha in the mid-1990s. A V/Line road coach service replaced the rail service to Leongatha on 24 July 1993, running between Melbourne and Yarram. However, since the closure of the South Gippsland rail line—with the exception of the locally run tourist railway between Nyora and Leongatha—by the Kennett Victorian government on 14 December 1994, the South and West Gippsland Transport Group represented by the local council are campaigning for the rail services to be reinstated beyond the current terminus at Cranbourne by the 2020s,
which was promised by the Bracks government in 1999.
On 31 January 2018, a council in Melbourne's booming South-east says it needs almost $3 Billion worth of rail and road infrastructure to bring its transport services including the electrification to Clyde from Cranbourne.
See also
*
City of Cranbourne
The City of Cranbourne was a local government area about southeast of Melbourne, the state capital of Victoria, Australia. The city covered an area of , and existed from 1860 until 1994. It was notable for being the last local government area ...
– Clyde was previously within this former local government area.
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Suburbs of the City of Casey