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Fleet blessing this weekend THE Frankston Coast Guard will host their annual blessing of the fleet on 10 November. VF1 are inviting the local community to come along to the event, which sees rescue vessels blessed by a celebrant. Representatives from Marine Search and Rescue and Emergency Services, the Water Police, Volunteer Marine Rescue Mornington and Hastings, Southern Peninsula Rescue Squad, State Emergency Service, Live Saving Victoria, and other Coast Guard flotillas attended the event last year. The day begins at 10am with a

service for representatives of marine organisations and the general congregation at St Paul’s Anglican Church, Frankston. At 11.15, vessels will be moored and a celebrant will bless each one individually. The vessels then break away and head past Oliver’s Hill. Refreshments at the Frankston Yacht Club from 12.30pm.

Blessed: Boats moored at last year’s blessing of the fleet. Pic: Supplied

Case closed: The business case into the Frankston rail line extension has been completed. PM Scott Morrison visited Leawarra Station with Alan Tudge MP last year (inset) to reaffirm $225 million in funding. Pictures: Gary Sissons

State government not on board yet Continued from Page 1 While the federal government has promised $225 million to the project, the state government has yet to announce any financial contribution to the extension of the railway. Frankston MP Paul Edbrooke did not answer queries from The Times asking if an announcement was expected soon. The Liberal state opposition made a matching $225 million commitment to the project an election promise last year, but was resoundingly defeated at the polls.

The state government announced in April last year that they had started the business case and planning work for a future extension of the Frankston line to Baxter, and said it was due to be completed by early 2019. It wasn’t finished until October. Public transport minister Jacinta Allan said at the time that “whilst we remove level crossings, build new stations and upgrade stabling and signalling, we’re also doing the work to establish the best option to extend the Frankston line to Baxter.” The business case was completed

with $3 million in federal government funding. The proposed rail extension would see the line duplicated and electrified to Baxter, with two new stations at Langwarrin and Frankston East constructed. In April, Mornington Peninsula Shire and Frankston Council mayors David Gill and Michael O’Reilly released a joint statement supporting a “stage two” of the project to extend the rail line through to Hastings (“Councils united to support train for Hastings”, The Times, 15/4/19)

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