Carisbrook the early 2000s. Between 1884 and 2008 Carisbrook hosted 252 first-class cricket matches, including, between 1955 and 1998, 10 Test cricket matches. It was also the home ground of Otago United in the New Zealand Football Championship, which moved to the lower-capacity Sunnyvale Park for the 2008–09 season. The ground's final regular capacity was around 30,000, but has hosted crowds as high as 42,000 in the past with temporary seating. Until 1998 the sides of the Caversham bypass motorway allowed a free view of the ground and was known as the "Scotsman's Grandstand". Occasionally trains would slow to a crawl
Carisbrook railway station be found on Railpage Carisbrook railway station Carisbrook railway station is a closed railway station on the Moolort railway line at Carisbrook, Victoria. The station was opened on Tuesday, 7 July 1874. Although no longer in use Carisbrook retains a bricks station building, platform and goods shed. A movement for the re-opening of the railway line has been gaining momentum over the past 2 years. On Sunday 8 December 2013 a Community Rally calling for the reopening of the railway station and the railway line will take place. A discussion on the rally and the Group Rally for the return