Pic Nic railway station, alternatively Pic-Nic, Pic-nic or Picnic, was a railway station in

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. It was on the Hawthorn line (now the

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and Lilydale line), on the Melbourne side of the

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over the

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, between Church Street (now East Richmond) and Hawthorn stations, and provided access to the adjacent Burnley Park. The line to the station was opened by the

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on 24 September 1860, and was extended to Hawthorn seven months later, following the completion of the Hawthorn Railway Bridge. The station was included in the sale of the line to the

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in 1878, and the duplication of the track to Hawthorn in 1882. The station was the scene of a serious accident on 2 December 1882, when two trains collided head-on. One person was killed and 178 injured when a special train, returning from a land sale at Box Hill, collided with a scheduled train from Melbourne to

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. On 6 October 1895, Pic Nic was closed as a block point, and the station closed to all traffic on 18 July 1898. There is now an

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near the site, almost certainly a coincidence. Today, there is still remnants of Pic Nic, with bluestone bricks used in the stations platform still visible today near the Glen Waverley lines crossover.

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