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Wodonga railway station is located on the North East line in Victoria, Australia. It serves the city of Wodonga opening on 25 June 2011 as part of the Wodonga Rail Bypass project.It replaced the original station that opened on 21 November 1873 and closed on 9 November 2008. Disused station Barnawartha is located between Wodonga and Chiltern.HistoryAs a terminusWodonga station was the original terminus of Victorian Railways' North East line which was built during the 1870s, with Wodonga opening on 21 November 1873. The connection through to the standard gauge system across the Murray River to Albury was not completed until 14 June 1883, partly because the New South Wales Government Railways standard gauge system had not yet extended as far south as Albury.Intercolonial rivalries were settled by the building of lines and bridges of both gauges across the border river flats with both Albury and Wodonga being transfer stations. Albury later became the passenger interchange station and the major freight transshipment point.Standard gaugeIn April 1962 the standard gauge line was extended south from Wodonga to Melbourne and from that time onwards, most interstate haulage was on the standard gauge. Some broad gauge passenger trains still continued to run to Albury to provide a local service to north eastern Victorian towns but the long distance interstate freight and passenger trains operated via this new continuous standard gauge link between Melbourne and Sydney.