I also believe there was a LX closure at Traralgon, with Collins Street which crossed the line at the Up end of the station closed by 30/6/1939 and one at Dimboola, replaced by a footbridge in the same year.

Thank you.

The North East standard gauge project removed level crossings at Sunshine, Tallarook, Seymour, Euroa, Glenrowan and Wangaratta.

https://www.parliament.vic.gov.au/papers/govpub/VPARL1962-63No16.pdf

Significant constraints on the available resources for public works during the Great Depression and during and after the War.

Severe electoral malapportionment favouring non-metropolitan Victoria reducing Melbourne`s ability to get projects done, that was not abolished until the 1950s.

Also, the construction of the the standard gauge line to Albury seems to have been the cause for numerous level crossing abolitions along it length, including the Sunshine level crossing pictured.

Back in 2014 Metro proposed ‘removing’ level crossings on the Dandenong line by building a narrow two lane underpass below the railway, flanked by a level crossing at ground level by a level crossing for trucks – VicRoads rejected it.

https://www.theage.com.au/national/victoria/vicroads-kos-lite-rail-changes-on-dandenong-line-20140515-38cws.html

The Railway Department is to be highly commended for the expense it has incurred, and the installations it has made in a variety of ways, with a view to making these crossings safe for all but the most reckless people.

Some of the things they could get away with in the 1920s wouldn’t fly now. One wonders how Victoria St in Footscray would’ve been removed now. I imagine the whole strip of houses between Buckley St and Errol St would be compulsorily acquired, whereas the 1920s solution was to build steps up to the front gates (and provide a roadway that floods when it rains!).