Explore Albion
The district Albion of in Brimbank (Victoria) with it's 4,337 inhabitants Albion is located in Australia about 294 mi south-west of Canberra, the country's capital.
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Local weather forecast
Todays Local Weather Conditions & Forecast: 30°C / 85 °F
Morning Temperature | 11°C / 52 °F |
Evening Temperature | 22°C / 72 °F |
Night Temperature | 19°C / 66 °F |
Chance of rainfall | 0% |
Air Humidity | 22% |
Air Pressure | 1019 hPa |
Wind Speed | Gentle Breeze with 7 km/h (4 mph) from North |
Cloud Conditions | Scattered clouds, covering 38% of sky |
General Conditions | Scattered clouds |
Friday, 22nd of November 2024
35°C (94 °F)
21°C (70 °F)
Broken clouds, gentle breeze.
Saturday, 23rd of November 2024
36°C (96 °F)
20°C (67 °F)
Overcast clouds, moderate breeze.
Sunday, 24th of November 2024
23°C (74 °F)
17°C (63 °F)
Light rain, gentle breeze, overcast clouds.
Hotels and Places to Stay
Summer Inn Holiday Apartments
MANTRA TULLAMARINE HOTEL
PUNTHILL ESSENDON
Sunshine Motor Inn
Westside Hotel
Ciloms Airport Lodge
Essendon Apartments
Skyways Taverner
Inn Essendon
Quality Hotel Melbourne Airport
Videos from this area
These are videos related to the place based on their proximity to this place.
18/12/10 - Ginifer to Southern Cross Part I
Part II: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H204q-GznLk The weekend before Christmas (as noted in the video by some woman :P). Travelling to the city on the 11:36 Flinders Street in an EDI Comeng.
Bendy Blades
You can get interesting effects by using crap cameras. The wiper blades look like they are made of flexible materials due to the slow update of the camera phone.
Pets Stores Melbourne | Pet Works Sunshine
http://www.petworkssunshine.com.au Pet Works Sunshine is one of Melbourne's largest pet stores conviently located near the Western Ring Road. We have puppies for adoption, orphaned rabbits...
Australian trains : EMU, freight, and passenger trains
This clip has Comeng EMU's, CFCLA VL class locos on 5MS8 to Sydney and a V/Line passenger train.
Australian trains : V/Line passenger and Comeng EMU
A Bendigo bound V/Line service followed by a Comeng EMU set running to Watergardens/Sydenham.
Merpati Putih Roadshow at Polish Club Albion
A special thanks to MP KJRI Melbourne, Polish Club Albion, Erlangga Dilisuta for the photos and video recording, and to Mukti Wibowo for special lunch before the event ... http://merpatiputih.com.au/
Railpage Albion RailCam Test Footage
Railpabe Albion Railcam Test Footage. 3 x CM's and an EL pass the camera site.
El Zorro Light Locos at Albion Junction
On a cold Saturday afternoon G535-S300-C501 pass Albion Junction heading to Somerton to pick up grain wagons before continuing on to Oaklands. © Henry Owen 2012 Captured on the iPhone 4G.
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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.
Braybrook, Victoria
Braybrook is a suburb 9 km west of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Its Local Government Area is the City of Maribyrnong. At the 2011 Census, Braybrook had a population of 8,180. Braybrook is bounded in the west by Duke Street, in the north by the Maribyrnong River, in the east by Ashley Street, and in the south by the Sunbury railway line and Sunshine Road.
Kealba, Victoria
Kealba is a suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 16 km north-west from Melbourne's central business district. Its local government area is the City of Brimbank. At the 2011 Census, Kealba had a population of 3,164. The name of the suburb is derived from the letters of two of its neighbouring suburbs, namely Keilor and St Albans.
Sunshine, Victoria
Sunshine is a suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, lying 11 to 13 km west of the CBD. Its local government area is the City of Brimbank. At the 2011 Census, Sunshine had a population of 8,838.
Albion railway station, Melbourne
Albion is a railway station in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, located on the border of the suburbs of Sunshine and Albion, Victoria, on the Sunbury railway line. Classed as a Host Station, Albion is in the Myki zones 1+2 overlap.
Sunshine railway station, Melbourne
Sunshine is a railway station in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, located in the suburb of Sunshine, on the Sunbury railway line. It is the junction for the line west to Ballarat. The Melbourne - Sydney standard gauge line is also adjacent to the station. Classed as a Premium Station, Sunshine is in Myki zones 1+2 overlap.
Ginifer railway station
Ginifer is a railway station in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, located in the suburb of St Albans, on the Sunbury railway line. Ginifer is unmanned and is in Myki Zone 2.
Sunshine rail disaster
The Sunshine rail disaster happened at the Sunshine railway station, which is the junction for the Ballarat and Bendigo railway lines, 13.5 km from Melbourne, the state capital of Victoria, Australia. On the night of Easter Monday, 20 April 1908, 44 people were killed and over 400 injured when a Melbourne-bound train from Bendigo collided with the rear of a mail train from Ballarat, which was just leaving the station. Around 1,100 people were aboard the two trains.
Avondale Heights, Victoria
Avondale Heights is a suburb 12 km north-west of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Its Local Government Area is the City of Moonee Valley. At the 2011 Census, Avondale Heights had a population of 10,990. Avondale Heights is located on a plateau bounded by a large bend of the Maribyrnong River to the east, south, and west, and to the north by Buckley Street. The suburb derives its name from the Avondale Estate.
Brimbank Park
Brimbank Park is a State Park situated in the north-western Melbourne suburb of Keilor, Victoria, Australia. . Entry is via Keilor Park Drive which is off the Western Ring Road. In 1976 Brimbank Park was opened as part of the Maribyrnong Valley Park, combined with the adjacent Horseshoe Bend Children's farm and Greenvale Reservoir Park.
Division of Maribyrnong
The Division of Maribyrnong is an Australian Electoral Division in the state of Victoria. It is located in the north-western suburbs of Melbourne. It covers the suburbs of Moonee Ponds, Essendon, Niddrie, Keilor East, Avondale Heights, Tullamarine, Airport West, Sunshine and Brooklyn. Due to redistributions, the Division has been slowly moving west. It originally covered the suburbs of Footscray and North Melbourne.
Albion, Victoria
Albion is a suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 13 km west from Melbourne's central business district. Its Local Government Area is the City of Brimbank. At the 2011 Census Albion had a population of 4,337. Albion is bordered on the north by Ballarat Road, the south by Forrest Street, the west by Kororoit Creek and the east by Anderson Road. The suburb is completely surrounded by other parts of Sunshine except for Ardeer, which lies to Albion's due west across Kororoit Creek.
Sunshine North, Victoria
Sunshine North is a suburb 12 km west of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Its Local Government Area is the City of Brimbank. At the 2011 Census, Sunshine North had a population of 10,637.
St Albans Secondary College
St. Albans Secondary College is a 7-12 secondary school located at St Albans, Victoria, Australia, in Melbourne's western suburbs. It is recognised for its academic excellence, strong social and cultural values and high university admission rates.
Maribyrnong River Viaduct
The Maribyrnong River Viaduct (also known locally as the Quarter Mile Bridge) caries the Albion–Jacana railway line, Melbourne across the Maribyrnong River in the western suburbs of Melbourne, Australia. It is located near the E.J. Whitten Bridge, and almost 400 metres long (hence the quarter mile name). It was built in 1927–29 by the Victorian Railways Construction Branch, being the largest trestle bridge in Australia when completed in June, 1929.
City of Sunshine
The City of Sunshine was a local government area about 13 kilometres west of Melbourne, the state capital of Victoria, Australia. The city covered an area of 80.05 square kilometres, and existed from 1860 until 1994.
Caroline Chisholm Catholic College, Melbourne
Caroline Chisholm Catholic College is a Roman Catholic co-educational day school for years 7–12 located in the western suburb of Braybrook in Melbourne, Australia. The College was founded in 1997 by the amalgamation of three colleges, St Johns College for Boys, Christ the King College for Girls and Chisholm College, a senior co-educational secondary school, all three schools located in the suburb of Braybrook.
Sunshine Marketplace
Sunshine Marketplace (was to be called Market Towers) is a regional shopping centre in Sunshine, about 13 kilometres west of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. It has been built next to the existing Sunshine Plaza. Sunshine Marketplace has a variety of national, international and independent retailers, it has a Gross Lettable Area of 33,850 m, 1,743 parking spaces and approximately 74 stores. It is one of the few Centro shopping centres which had its own independent logo.
Ballarat Road, Melbourne
Ballarat Road (formerly known as the Western Highway) is a major urban arterial road in the western suburbs of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
Geography of the Yarra River
The Yarra River is a river in East-Central Victoria, Australia that flows through the city of Melbourne. This article contains explanations and lists of the river's tributaries and other geographic features. The river flows atop layers of silt that built up within an ancient river valley around 10,000-15,000 years ago. The river's major tributaries are the Plenty River, Merri Creek, Darebin Creek, Gardiners Creek, Mullum Mullum Creek and the Moonee Ponds Creek.
Knights Stadium (Melbourne)
Knights Stadium is an Australian association football stadium in Sunshine North, a suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. It is the largest venue in Victoria used only for soccer matches. Built in 1989, it is used by the Melbourne Knights as a home ground in the Victorian Premier League, and previously in the National Soccer League. The Knights were one of only a handful of clubs in the National Soccer League to actually own their home ground.
Chaplin Reserve
Chaplin Reserve is an Australian football (soccer) stadium in Sunshine, a suburb of Melbourne, Victoria. It is currently the home of Sunshine George Cross. The stadium has a capacity of 5,000. Chaplin Reserve is also home to the Sunshine George Cross Bocci Club.
Stony Creek (Melbourne)
Stony Creek is located in the western suburbs of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. It runs through the suburbs of St Albans, Albion, Sunshine, Braybrook, Tottenham, Brooklyn, Kingsville and Yarraville. As of 2011 in its upper reaches Stony Creek's environmental state is very poor; it is best characterised as a concrete stormwater drain for these sections of its course. Through most of Sunshine it has been directed underground coming out at Hill Reserve.
Braybrook College
Braybrook College is a state secondary college located in the suburb of Braybrook which is located in Melbourne's western suburbs.
Sunshine Harvester Works
The Sunshine Harvester works, was an Australia factory operated by industrialist H. V. McKay. Having established an agricultural implement works in Ballarat he moved his factory and many of his employees to Braybrook Junction, in 1906,where he had earlier (1904) purchased the Braybrook Implement Works. He named the new enterprise the Sunshine Harvester Works, after his Sunshine Harvester which was one of his major products.
ETA Foods Factory
The ETA Foods Factory is an important Modernist industrial building employing glass curtain wall design. It is located at Ballarat Road Braybrook and constructed in 1957.