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26 Oct, 24 tweets, 12 min read
Good Morning St Kilda!
St Kilda line was built by the Melbourne and Hobson's Bay Railway Company, opened 1857. Line taken over by VR 1878. In 1906 VR opened a 5' 3" gauge street tramway from St Kilda Station to Brighton Beach. St Kilda line sparked 1919.
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St Kilda line diagram 1919
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St Kilda station
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The tram terminus was alongside the station building, permitting an easy interchange between modes (bottom right of the diagram). In 1920s St Kilda was the second busiest station on the network. Loco facilities too!
Melbourne and Hobson's Bay Railway Station, St. Kilda c, 1862
viewer.slv.vic.gov.au/?entity=IE1476… via @Library_Vic
Willmore, Arthur, 1814-1888, engraver
ST KILDA STATION EXTERIOR FROM GREY AND FITZROY STREETS SHOWING TRAM TERMINUS
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ST KILDA STATION EXTERIOR WITH ADVERTISING FOR COUNTRY LIFE AND BROOKES LEMOS
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Not dated, ? 1920/30s
St Kilda Railway Station, circa 1885.
Source: Museums Victoria
collections.museumvictoria.com.au/items/786835
Locomotive is C class 4-4-0 WT
Probably no. 264 built Phoenix Ballarat 1882.
Note double headed rail. VR started to replace with flat bottom rail from around 1870.
MONTHLY TICKET JULY 1858 MELBOURNE-ST KILDA - Public Record Office Victoria wiki.prov.vic.gov.au/index.php/VPRS…
1859, MHBRC paid St Kilda and Brighton Railway Company £5,000 to build a loop line from St Kilda to Windsor. However, a more direct route from Windsor to the city was built 11 months later, and the loop line was dismantled in 1867.
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ST KILDA ROAD RAILWAY BRIDGE viewer.slv.vic.gov.au/?entity=IE1159… via @Library_Vic
c. 1860s
This was on the loop line from St Kilda to Windsor.
Interesting map of Windsor c. 1860 showing the Windsor <> St Kilda railway. Line continued on bridges over Punt Road and St Kilda Road and then to the railway at St Kilda, Map from marvmelb.blogspot.com/2014/04/melbou…
1ST DECEMBER 73 SWING DOOR SETS ON ST KILDA LINE 30TH NOVEMBER 73 - Public Record Office Victoria wiki.prov.vic.gov.au/index.php/VPRS…
VR 38 leaving St Kilda station terminus on its way south to Brighton Beach during the 1920s.
hawthorntramdepot.org.au/papers/vrtram.…
Follow link for a history of the VR electric street railways.
St Kilda - Railway station 1975
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The St Kilda to Brighton Street railway was discontinued in 1959, to be replaced by buses.
Advertising billboard for Dickie's towels, Kiwi boot polish and Robur tea on the railway platform, St Kilda, Victoria, ca. 1930
nla.gov.au/nla.obj-141704…
St Kilda Railway Station, c.1864
skhs.org.au/SKHSbuildings/…
St Kilda Up Suburban 4-car Hitachi
Weston Langford 6 January 1973
westonlangford.com/images/photo/1…
St Kilda Looking towards Albert Park
Weston Langford 26 September 1987
westonlangford.com/images/photo/1…
Line was officially closed on 31 July 1987, and reopened as part of the Melbourne tram network on 21 November 1987. This photograph shows works for the tram.
St Kilda to Flinders Street service approaches Middle Park circa 1930
victorianrailways.net/photogallery/s…
Middle Park R Dow 2014
Running onto Fitzroy Street St Kilda
R Dow September 2013
St Kilda railway station building on the right.
Film:
Swingdoor Electric Trains St Kilda Port Melbourne Lines 1960s
Film:
Drivers view of St Kilda line before conversion to light rail
Video:
Melbourne's Closed St Kilda Railway Line
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Alamein station opened in 1948. Originally on the outer circle line (no station) the section of the former outer circle railway from Riversdale to Ashburton was extended to Alamein in 1948.

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Was this the cab mock up?
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The one in the backyard was probably an earlier mock up?
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27 Oct
The Rosstown railway was a private railway from Oakleigh to Elsternwick. It had a short history, but if things worked out it could well be part of the Melbourne suburban rail network today. Construction planning from 1875 completed in 1891.
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Built by William Murray Ross for transporting sugar beet to his sugar mill, and the refined product to the Port of Melbourne. The mill failed to begin production, the line fell into disrepair without being used.

The mill with the planned railway 1876
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Construction trains using hired Y classes operated on the line. It is recorded Ross ran one passenger train on the line.

Ross also proposed a line from the Rosstown railway up to the Dandenong line. Rosstown was the 1st name for Carnegie. This is why some of the streets curved. Image
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27 Oct
Port Melbourne was known as Sandridge until 1884, was the first railway in Victoria. Melbourne terminus (later Flinders Street Station) to Sandridge, and the Railway Pier ( later rebuilt 1930 known as Station Pier ) open 1854.

1870 rail network
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Melbourne and Hobson's Bay Railway Company built the line which opened in September 1854. VR took over 1878.
4 locomotives had been ordered from Stephenson England but had not arrived for the opening. A local firm built the first engine in 10 weeks.

VR Power Parade 1954 Image
SANDRIDGE STATION YARD
2-4-0 TANK ENGINE AND PIER DONKEY OR SHUNTING ENGINE No.5 WITH 4 WHEEL GOODS WAGONS MELBOURNE AND HOBSONS BAY RAILWAY COMPANY
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4 of the Stephenson 2-4-0 WT were in service by 1855. Image
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25 Oct
Good Morning North Melbourne!
Open 1859 2 platforms. Six platform station opened 1886. Between Spencer St and North Melb. was located the Melb. Yard and the North Melb. locomotive depot was located near the station.

Inner & Western Melbourne 1930
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The North Melbourne locomotive deport was described in VR circles as ' the hub of the universe '.

Melbourne goods yard 1914.
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The North Melb. loco depot is top right. It replaced the Spencer Street loco depot in the 1880s. Three turntables were provided.
North Melbourne Station layout 1923
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24 Oct
Good Morning Murrumbeena!
When in Melbourne this is my home station.
Opened May 1879 single line, duplicated 1883.
Sparked 1922.
A signal box was at the northern end of platform 1 removed in 1979. Two sidings were located southern end of platform 2.
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Line profile (part) South Yarra - Noble Park
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Murrumbeena Railway Station Estate c. 1880 viewer.slv.vic.gov.au/?entity=IE1550… via @Library_Vic
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