Seymour (Victoria)

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Seymour
Seymour Station Street.jpg
Station Street in Seymour with the train station and Railway Club Hotel in the foreground.
State : AustraliaAustralia Australia
State : Flag of Victoria (Australia) .svg Victoria
Founded : 1839
Coordinates : 37 ° 2 ′  S , 145 ° 8 ′  E Coordinates: 37 ° 2 ′  S , 145 ° 8 ′  E
Height : 145  m
Area : 12.5  km²
Residents : 5,844 (2016)
Population density : 468 inhabitants per km²
Time zone : AEST (UTC + 10)
Postal code : 3660
LGA : Mitchell Shire
Seymour (Victoria)
Seymour
Seymour
Aerial photo: Seymour from the east: The Goulburn River can be seen on the left, the railway runs from left to right towards the center

Seymour is a city in the Australian state of Victoria 98 km north of Melbourne . It is located in the Mitchell Shire Local Government Area and has a population of 6,063 according to the last census in 2016. The city serves as a center for the surrounding agriculture (mainly horse , cattle and sheep breeding as well as viticulture ) and the nearby Puckapunyal military base (population: 1078), on which an important training center for the Australian armed forces is located. Other important industries are retail, light engineering, agriculture, medical services, and education.

history

Seymour was founded in 1839 at the point where the road from Melbourne to Sydney (today: Hume Highway ) crosses the Goulburn River . At this point an inn was built and on July 1, 1844 the first post office opened. The railroad came along with the necessary infrastructure in 1872 and made the city an important hub in the Goulburn Valley for the Melbourne-Sydney railway line and all of Northeast Victoria. It was one of the first examples in Victoria of a railroad town , in the prime of this mode of transportation 400 railway workers were employed, together with their families nearly a third of the total city population (1500 people).

Puckapunyal Army Base

During the First World War , the Australian armed forces set up a training camp 4 km east of the city. During the Second World War , this eastern camp lost its importance and a much larger military settlement was built about 10 km to the west in Puckapunyal. Since 2008, Puckapunyal has been the Land Warfare Development Center (LWDC) of the Australian Armed Forces and Headquarters Combined Arms Training Center (HQ CATC). The HQ CATC is the headquarters of the Australian Army School of Armor (Puckapunyal), the School of Artillery (Puckapunyal), the School of Engineers (Sydney) and the School of Infantry (Singleton). In addition, there are smaller training centers and facilities in Puckapunyal, as well as a road transport squadron.

Plans by the federal government (not confirmed) are to move the School of Engineers and School of Infantry to Puckapunyal as well, thus creating a Combined Training Center of Excellence for the Australian armed forces.

Puckapunyal has extensive support units for the garrison as well as maintenance and repair facilities for service to the army units in Puckapunyal and many field depots throughout Victoria and Tasmania . Much of the civilian population in Seymour and the surrounding cities is employed by the military base. There is the Australian Army's Tank Museum , which has an excellent collection of historic and modern tanks and armored vehicles from around the world.

Structure and facilities

Seymour is generally a beautifully designed city with many long, straight streets and many dead ends. There are designated shopping centers as well as many efficient local stores and large supermarket chains. The usual fast food chains such as McDonald's, Kentucky Fried Chicken and Subway as well as the department stores Safeway, Coles, IGA and Target are represented. An Aldi supermarket is also to be opened.

There are four state primary schools in town as well as one secondary school ( Seymour Technical High School (STHS), now Seymour P-12 College ). The Catholic Church operates St. Mary's Seymour College , a private school for students up to the 10th grade.

A former drive-in theater east of the Hume Highway closed a few years ago.

Private organizations

There are a number of private organizations in Seymour, e.g. B. The Freemasons (founded in 1883), the Lions Club , the Boy Scouts and the Apex Club of Australia .

Seymour has a sports center with an indoor swimming pool and covered facilities for athletics , cricket and football .

The Goulburn Ovens Institute of TAFE campus opened in 1998 and offers a variety of courses in adult education .

traffic

Seymour Station from the main road

Seymour is near the junction of the Hume Highway and Goulburn Valley Highway . The Hume Highway crossed the Goulburn River for over 100 years, routing all Melbourne to Sydney traffic through the city, but a bypass has been in place since 1982.

The station in Seymour is served by the V / Line every hour and there are connections to Melbourne, Albury / Wodonga and Shepparton . In the past, the station was a goods transfer point and had an important locomotive depot. This depot now houses the Seymour Railway Heritage Center . There are many historical locomotives and wagons (in varying degrees of preservation) and there are regular open days.

tourism

An Alternative Agriculture Show is held every February in Seymour, attracting thousands of visitors from all over Australia. There is the aforementioned Railway Museum and art galleries - the Old Courthouse and the Old Post Office . There are also various hotels and restaurants, e.g. B. The Prince of Wales Hotel , The Somerset Winery , Old Post Office Seymour , The Seymour Club , The Royal Hotel and The Railway Hotel .

There are several larger wineries around the city, which can be reached in 15 minutes by car. There is a racecourse with several events throughout the year. The Hume International Raceway , which hosts go-kart races every weekend , is 6 miles west of Seymour.

Seymour is the second city mentioned in the Australian version of the song I've Been Everywhere .

Sports

There are a number of sports clubs, the Seymour Turf Club , the Seymour Football Club (plays in the Goulbourn Valley Football League and won the championships in 2005, 2006 and 2007) and clubs each for boggia , kickboxing , basketball , soccer and netball .

Seymour has a horse racing club, the Seymour Racing Club , which organizes around 20 races a year, including the Seymour Cup .

Golfers play on the course of the Seymour Golf Club .

Newspapers

Seymour has two newspapers, Seymour Nagambie Advertiser and Seymour Telegraph .

Web links

Commons : Seymour, Victoria  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Australian Bureau of Statistics : Seymour ( English ) In: 2016 Census QuickStats . June 27, 2017. Retrieved April 19, 2020.
  2. ↑ Australian Bureau of Statistics : Puckapunyal ( English ) In: 2016 Census QuickStats . June 27, 2017. Retrieved April 19, 2020.
  3. ^ Post Office List . Premier Postal History
  4. ^ John C. Jennings & Robert K. Wjitehead: Seymour - A Railway Town . Seymour and District Historical Society. Seymour (July 2005). ISBN 0975165801
  5. ↑ Australian Armed Forces (English)
  6. ^ Australian Army's Tank Museum
  7. ↑ Freemason Seymour (English) ( Memento of the original from January 17, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.seymour-masons.com
  8. ↑ Alternative Farming Exposition
  9. ^ The Prince of Wales Hotel
  10. ↑ The Somerset Winery ( Memento of the original from August 29, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.seymour.org.au
  11. ↑ Old Post Office Seymour - Fine Art Gallery & Restaurant
  12. ^ Seymour Racing Club
  13. ↑ Seymour . Golf Select