Good Morning Brighton Beach !
Open 1861 as Beach renamed Brighton Beach 1867.
Brighton Beach - Sandringham open 1887
South Yarra - Sandringham sparked 1919
St Kilda - Brighton Beach VR electric street railway (tram) 5' 3" gauge open 1906 closed 1957 victorianrailways.net/vr%20map/vrmap…
1912 Brighton Beach station picturevictoria.vic.gov.au/site/bayside/B…
'The building in the right hand corner to the left of the water tower is the old engine shed ... '
Brighton Beach terminus of the 5' 3" gauge VR ELECTRIC Street Railway c. 1930s victorianrailways.net/photogallery/s…
'The brick parapet seen to the right of the tram locates the end of a short tunnel section of rail line that ran from Brighton Beach goods shed along the pier seen on the right'
View from railway pier of Railway Station, Captain Kenny's Brighton Beach Baths and foreshore c. 1888 slv.vic.gov.au/pictoria/gid/s…
Church St , Brighton c. 1862 picturevictoria.vic.gov.au/site/bayside/B…
' B&W photograph of wood block etching in Illustrated Melbourne Post looking north down Church Street. The railway station, crossing gates and the train to Brighton Beach can be seen. .... '
Good Morning Moyhu!
Moyhu station was on the Wangaratta - Whitfield VR 2' 6" railway. Around 16 miles from Wang' and about 14 miles from Whitfield. Open 1899 closed 1953.
Ingliston was a station on the Ballarat line (via Bacchus Marsh). The station was at the top of a bank (sustained climb) known as the 'Ingliston Bank' 1:48 grade that trains climbed leaving Bacchus Marsh. Ingliston open 1889.
Flemington Racecourse (FR) station opened 1861 by Melbourne and Essendon Railway Company. Closed 1864, reopened in 1867 by VR. The FR line electrified 1918 for testing of electric trains, the first line to be sparked.
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.