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distance the permanent way consists of a slight earth formation laid on the natural surface of the ground, and in many places the top is so narrow that the sleepers project over the sides. There is one good-sized cutting at the back of the
Caulfield racecourse, from which about 10,000 square yards of material have been removed, and about a mile and a half from Elsternwick is the only "bank" worth speaking of. For the whole length there are two wooden culverts and one drain, but no ditches or gutters to preserve the earthwork from the destruction now progressing through the accumulation of large quantities of water. The sleepers, bad as they are, have been sparingly used. On regulation, well-ballasted lines, the maximum interval between the timbers is about 3ft, if not less. On the Rosstown line there is a space of 12ft between them, and the rails are only spiked to them alternately. The fish-plates which hold the rails together have four bolt-holes each, but only contain two bolts, and the spikes are only driven half home. If the line were to be made use of, everything but the earth and the gates would have to be removed, and then a very large expenditure would be necessary to make the work suitable or the reception of new sleepers and rails. Without reckoning the cost of the land, it is estimated that the line cost something under ÂŁ1,000 per mile.
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Pioneers' Memorial History of Melbourne". Selby postulated a link between the occasion of Ross's second wedding and the running of the first "train"; however, he notes that the idea was handed down. In fact, this is substance of almost every account passed down by word of mouth to certain of the older residents of Caulfield and Carnegie. The tradition is in error. That wedding was in February 1889. In any case, the newspapers in reporting the movements of the wedding party from Holy Trinity Church, East Melbourne, to "The Grange", Rosstown, made no mention of the required two stages of rail travel.
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standard of the time. In some places the sleepers had settled into the earth so far that they did not even touch the rails, and when the supply of the sleepers ran out, posts from nearby fences were used. The last section of track was laid after sunset on the last day of the five-year period in 1883. Ross had received permission to exclude the contentious
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Rosstown Railway proposal. It produced a very favourable report on 8 August 1877. Due to the dispute over the purchase of the M&HBUR by the State of Victoria, many more members of government, included Woods, had become wary of privately owned railways. The
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over its tracks, and so eventually it was decided that the railway to Gippsland would link with a station to be built at Oakleigh. While it might have been beneficial to join the Elsternwick and new Gippsland railways with Ross's cross-suburban line, its difficult negotiations with the M&HBUR
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processing mill, a railway line to serve it, and a residential estate, named after Ross. In 1875, Ross circulated a broadsheet proposal which detailed the project, and began building the mill that same year.
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3133:Williamstown
2875:Tyers Valley
2860:Beech Forest
2804:Mirboo North
2773:Yackandandah
2489:Williamstown
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2419:Outer Circle
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41:Please help
36:verification
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3186:Operational
3113:Stony Point
3108:Sandringham
3088:Hurstbridge
3063:Craigieburn
2996:Warrnambool
2789:Barry Beach
2723:Colbinabbin
2621:Wensleydale
2606:Queenscliff
2454:Stony Point
2444:Sandringham
2384:Hurstbridge
2379:Healesville
1812:15 December
1721:14 May 1879
1694:Sugar Works
1673:Booran Road
1631:Garden Vale
1613:Elsternwick
1565:incinerator
1561:rubbish tip
1540:Thomas Bent
1470:Thomas Bent
1382:Elsternwick
1341:Elsternwick
1193:Elsternwick
926:Sugar Works
897:Never built
703:Grange Road
549:Sandringham
487:Elsternwick
360:Track gauge
340:Line length
247:Operator(s)
180:Elsternwick
3278:Categories
3068:Cranbourne
2870:Powelltown
2819:Strzelecki
2794:Briagolong
2738:Katamatite
2687:Shelbourne
2672:Lancefield
2657:Daylesford
2494:Whittlesea
2429:Powelltown
2409:Mornington
2349:Broadstore
2284:Serviceton
2269:Port Fairy
2259:North East
2244:Deniliquin
2234:Main lines
2133:M>Train
1971:References
1902:6 December
1864:6 December
1838:6 December
1440:ballasting
1418:Mordialloc
1349:Mordialloc
1306:John Woods
1254:sugar beet
1240:Beginnings
1233:sugar beet
1213:sugar beet
1079:Cranbourne
849:Cranbourne
327:1916-12-28
297:1891-03-21
282:1888-11-14
198:Cranbourne
69:newspapers
3149:City Loop
3078:Frankston
3003:Gippsland
2921:Heathcote
2890:Whitfield
2834:Wonthaggi
2824:Thorpdale
2768:Whitfield
2763:Wahgunyah
2743:Mansfield
2708:Alexandra
2682:Redesdale
2662:Koondrook
2647:Balranald
2566:Fyansford
2551:Coleraine
2541:Casterton
2531:Buninyong
2484:Webb Dock
2479:Warburton
2404:Mont Park
2364:Frankston
2279:Robinvale
2249:Gippsland
1948:671303814
1896:The Argus
1858:The Argus
1832:The Argus
1806:The Argus
1751:146 years
1727:145 years
1624:164 years
1504:land boom
1364:The Argus
1286:Melbourne
1279:Gippsland
1246:Caulfield
1203:, on the
1195:, on the
1189:Australia
1185:Melbourne
1091:Dandenong
381:Route map
335:Technical
320:Abandoned
290:Completed
260:Commenced
212:(planned)
210:Frankston
167:Australia
159:Melbourne
3128:Werribee
3103:Pakenham
3093:Lilydale
3058:Belgrave
3039:services
2971:Ballarat
2956:services
2880:Walhalla
2865:Gembrook
2844:Yallourn
2839:Woodside
2829:Walhalla
2748:Oaklands
2733:Girgarre
2677:Morkalla
2601:Pinnaroo
2586:Mortlake
2581:Hopetoun
2536:Carpolac
2526:Bolangum
2520:Balmoral
2464:St Kilda
2434:Red Hill
2399:Lilydale
2369:Gembrook
2344:Belgrave
2294:Tocumwal
2274:Portland
2073:El Zorro
1773:See also
1740:Oakleigh
1716:Carnegie
1595:Station
1557:Tasmania
1453:, note:
1406:St Kilda
1394:St Kilda
1345:Oakleigh
1275:Oakleigh
1201:Oakleigh
1037:Oakleigh
932:Carnegie
217:Stations
204:, &
202:Pakenham
185:Oakleigh
163:Victoria
131:Overview
3123:Upfield
3118:Sunbury
3053:Alamein
3013:Seymour
2991:Geelong
2981:Bendigo
2926:Moolort
2814:Outtrim
2728:Cudgewa
2631:Yaapeet
2616:Timboon
2611:Skipton
2596:Navarre
2561:Forrest
2474:Upfield
2264:Piangil
2254:Mildura
1760:Diagram
1601:Closed
1598:Opened
1497:Decline
1300:became
1223:History
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267:1883-11
265: (
255:History
234:Service
173:Termini
83:scholar
3232:Former
3098:Mernda
2966:Albury
2954:V/Line
2809:Noojee
2799:Maffra
2758:Tatong
2718:Cobram
2713:Bright
2667:Kulwin
2652:Cohuna
2556:Crowes
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1607:Notes
1402:Elwood
1390:Elwood
1199:, and
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396:Legend
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275:Opened
155:Locale
136:Status
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2626:Yanac
2510:Alvie
1785:Notes
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1179:The
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1153:talk
1146:view
312:1894
308:1894
239:Type
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