Belgrave
Quick facts
- Population approximately 7,500
- 40 kilometres east of Melbourne
- Home of Puffing Billy Ssteam Railway
- Shops and galleries.
Activities and attractions
- Take a trip on the antique steam train Puffing Billy, from Belgrave to Emerald and Gembrook
- Eat at fine restaurants, the Queen of Tarts café serving eighteenth century sweet treats, traditional country pubs and taverns
- Browse the diverse range of local shops – from wholefood shops to second-hand bookshops. Don’t miss the Belgrave Art Stockade on Monbulk Road, with its decorative wrought iron works, crystals, woodwork, pottery and paintings
- Visit the George Tindale and Alfred Nicholas gardens
- Take the Sherbrooke Falls Walk in the Dandenong Ranges National Park
- Explore Horatio’s home, a rural cottage built in 1917 of flattened four gallon kerosene tins fixed to a frame of eucalyptus trees.
How to get there
By car: From Melbourne travel along the Burwood Highway (Route 26), past Ferntree Gully and Tecoma.
By train: Take the Belgrave line. For train timetable information phone 13 1638. By local bus: US Bus Lines ph +61 3 9765 8111, Invicta Bus Lines ph +61 3 9735 3400, Mt Dandenong +61 3 9723 3529.
