Pic Nic railway station
Pic Nic railway station, alternatively Pic-Nic, Pic-nic
or Picnic, was a railway station in Melbourne, Australia. It was located on the Hawthorn line, on the Melbourne side of the Hawthorn Railway Bridge,
between Church Street and Hawthorn stations.
The line to the station was opened by the Melbourne and Suburban Railway Company on 24 September 1860, and extended to Hawthorn in 1861 with the completion of the Hawthorn Railway Bridge across the Yarra River. The station closed on 19 July 1898.
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 land sales at Box Hill, collided with a scheduled train from Melbourne to Camberwell.
