The Victorian Railways No. 1 was the first government passenger steam locomotive on Victorian Railways. It was a 2-2-2 (later 2-4-0) passenger locomotive...
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operations. Most of the lines operated by the Victorian Railways were of 5 ft 3 in (1,600 mm). However, the railways also operated up to five 2 ft 6 in (762 mm)...
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The Victorian Railways V class of 1857 was a class of 0-6-0 goods locomotives operated by the Victorian Railways between 1858 and 1904, built by George...
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Clyde Engineering, Granville for the Victorian Railways in 1952–1953. Ordered and operated by the Victorian Railways, they initiated the dieselisation of...
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Railway Company, and were completed by the Victorian Railways in 1864. Features of note include the basement holding cells and the Victorian Railways...
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Rail transport in Victoria (redirect from Railways in Victoria)
and in 1864, railways were extended to the Murray River port of Echuca. In the 1870s, the Government Railway Department (Victorian Railways) started to...
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Retrieved 5 September 2019. Punch, 24 October 1857. Herbert, C. (2008), War of No Pity: The Indian Mutiny and Victorian Trauma, Princeton University Press Dalrymple...
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George England and Co. (category Ffestiniog Railway)
were sold. 2-2-2 - Victorian Railways No.1 (1857) 0-6-0 - Victorian Railways V class (1857) 2-4-0T - Melbourne and Suburban Railway Company 2-4-0T (1860)...
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taken over by the Government of Victoria in 1878, to become part of Victorian Railways. The line was electrified in 1919. The line was originally to be closed...
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Clyde Engineering, Granville for the Victorian Railways between 1955 and 1968. In July 1954, the Victorian Railways placed an order with Clyde Engineering...
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The Victorian Railways L class was a class of electric locomotives built by English Electric and operated by the Victorian Railways and later V/Line from...
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St Kilda light rail station (redirect from St Kilda railway station, Melbourne)
(1979). Electric Railways of Victoria. Australian Electric Traction Society. ISBN 0-909459-06-1. "St Kilda line 1952". Victorian Railways signal diagram...
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(27 May 1857) p.344 'The Turkish bath' Sheffield Free Press (18 July 1857) p.3; Free Press (22 July 1857) p.408 Shifrin, Malcolm (2015) Victorian Turkish...
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(1853–1856) Victorian Railways (1856–1983) Melbourne and Suburban Railway Company (1857–1862) MRC St Kilda and Brighton Railway Company (1857–1862) Melbourne...
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V/Line A class (redirect from Victorian Railways A Class (Diesel))
The A class are a class of diesel locomotives rebuilt from Victorian Railways B class locomotives by Clyde Engineering, Rosewater in South Australia for...
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Werribee line (redirect from Werribee Railway Line, Melbourne)
"THE RAILWAYS". Argus. 1 December 1917. Retrieved 11 May 2023. Harrigan, Leo J (1962). Victorian Railways to '62. Melbourne: Victorian Railways Public...
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construction of a railway reaching Campbelltown didn't commence until 1857 via the issue of a notice from the Commissioner of Railways. In the meantime...
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V/Line N class (redirect from Victorian Railways N Class (Diesel))
Somerton for V/Line between 1985 and 1987. By the start of the 1980s, Victorian Railways passenger numbers had fallen to around 3 million per year, due to...
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Society and culture of the Victorian era refers to society and culture in the United Kingdom during the Victorian era --that is the 1837-1901 reign of...
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diesel locomotives built by Clyde Engineering, Granville for the Victorian Railways between 1957 and 1961. The S class was based on the Electro-Motive...
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The Victorian Railways (VR) of Australia and successors have utilised a number of different types of railway carriages and wagons for the supply of head...
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the Victorian Railways between 1966 and 1976. In preparation for the opening of the standard gauge line between Melbourne and Albury, the Victorian Railways...
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private Geelong and Melbourne Railway Company and opened on 25 June 1857, the line being sold to the Victorian Railways in 1860. The line was designed...
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radio broadcasting at the end of the period. The railways were important economically in the Victorian era, allowing goods, raw materials, and people to...
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1857, when the Victorian Railways took over the defunct Geelong and Melbourne railway company, the most common type of boxvan used by the Victorian Railways...
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since been found, and has been built into the wall of the former Victorian Railways printing works in Laurens Street, North Melbourne. In 1963, boom barriers...
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is a list of Victorian locomotive classes, being classes of locomotive that have worked on railways in Victoria. The majority of Victorian steam locomotive...
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the early Victorian railway network and later the Victorian Railways. The first two locomotive for the Melbourne and Hobson's Bay Railway Company (B/n...
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1990, pp. 224–229. Manby 1857, p. 289. Manby 1857, p. 273. Dendy Marshall, C.F. (1963). A history of the Southern Railway Vol.1. Revised by R. W. Kidner...
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North Shore railway station is a regional railway station on the Warrnambool line, part of the Victorian railway network. It serves the northern suburb...
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