Good Morning Sandringham!
Sandringham open 1887
Brighton Beach - Sandringham duplicated 1888
South Yarra - Sandringham electrified 1919
VR standard gauge street railway (tram) Sandringham to Black Rock 1919-56 extended to Beaumaris 1926-31
No.1100 on first electric goods. Sandringham Line.
6 August 1924 slv.vic.gov.au/pictoria/gid/s…
No 1100 & 1101 electric suburban goods locos
Built at Newport & Jolimont workshops 1923.
Goods trains operated on the Sandringham till 1970s.
Newport-Braybrook Junction (renamed Sunshine 1907) line opened 1887.
Newport workshops established in the 1880s. At its peak around 5000 employees at the workshops. Major engineering facility.
Broadmeadows opened 1872 as part of the North East line. A line connecting Broadmeadows to Albion open 1929 for freight to by pass via Essendon line.
Essendon - Broadmeadows electrified 1921.
Broadmeadows - Craigieburn electrified 2007.
Good Morning Nyora!
Nyora on the South Gippsland line
junction for Wonthaggi line.
Open 1890.
Nyora - Wonthaggi open 1910 closed 1978.
Passenger service ceased 1993.
Leongatha-Nyora transferred to South Gippsland Tourist Railway 1994 ceased 2016.
NYORA STATION AND YARD SHOWING WATER TOWER AND STATION IN THE BACKGROUND. COMMISSIONERS VISIT - Public Record Office Victoria wiki.prov.vic.gov.au/index.php/VPRS…
South Yarra railway station opened Dec 1860 by the Melbourne and Suburban Railway Company, as "Gardiner's Creek Road". Renamed South Yarra Jan 1867. South Yarra became part of the VR network in 1878.
South Yarra 1874
Melbourne and Hobsons Bay United Railway loco no. 20
Public Record Office Victoria wiki.prov.vic.gov.au/index.php/VPRS…
No. 20 4-4-0WT built Stephenson c. 1870. When taken over by VR became C class no. 278. Last of class scrapped 1916. Two platforms.
First bridge between Richmond & South Yarra over Yarra River built 1860 double track. Another bridge completed 1886 beside the first allowed 4 tracks R. and S.Y. The 6 track Cremorne bridge completed 1946 - 6 track capable.
Good Morning Wodonga!
Wodonga original terminus North East line open Nov 1873. Connection to Albury 1883. April 1962 standard gauge line was extended to Melbourne.
Station closed 2008, replaced by a new station in 2011 on new rail bypass.
Heathcote was on the cross country line from Heathcote Junction on the NE main line across to North Bendigo.
North Bendigo Junction - Heathcote opened 1888
Heathcote - Tooborac 1889
Tooborac - Kilmore 1890
Heathcote Junction - Kilmore 1888