Railway Works

• 1854     Sandridge Line     Flinders Street - Port Melbourne   Falls Bridge, Station Pier
              First railway in Victoria. First steam railway in Australia.
                Converted to Light Rail 1990s
• 1857     St.Kilda Line     Flinders Street - St.Kilda
                Converted to Light Rail 1990s
• 1857     Geelong - Newport     Geelong Station. Railway Pier Geelong    
• 1859     Spencer Street - Williamstown     Embankment, Saltwater Bridge & Railway Pier   
• 1859     Spencer Street - Sunbury        
• 1859     Windsor Branch Line     St.Kilda - Windsor - Brighton
                St.Kilda - Windsor closed 1862
• 1859     Flinders Street - Richmond        
• 1860     Richmond - Windsor     Cremorne Bridge   
• 1861     Richmond - Hawthorn     Hawthorn Railway Bridge 1855/1861   
• 1862     Geelong - Ballarat     Moorabool Viaduct   
• 1862     Sunbury - Bendigo / Castlemaine
                Sunbury, Jacksons, Malmsbury, Taradale Viaducts. Ravenswood Bridge.
                Big Hill Tunnel, Elphinstone Tunnel   
• 1864     Bendigo - Echuca     Rochester Bridge. Murray River Bridge   
• 1872     Spencer Street - Longwood     Goulburn River Bridge, Seymour   
• 1873     Longwood - Wodonga     Benalla, Wangaratta Bridges   
• 1875     Castlemaine - Maryborough - Clunes - Ballarat        
• 1875     Ballarat - Ararat        
• 1876     Deniliquin - Moama/Echuca NSW    Private. VR from 1923   
• 1877     Ararat - Portland        
• 1877     Melbourne - Sale        
• 1881     (Sydney - Albury)        
• 1883     Wodonga - Albury     (Completing Melbourne - Sydney)        
• 1887     Ararat - Servicetown   (Completing Melbourne - Adelaide)        
• 1889     Melbourne - Ballarat     Melton Viaduct 1886, Bacchus Marsh Loop   
• 1890     Ballarat - Heathcote     Mollisons and Handfords Timber Viaducts   
• 1893     Outer Circle Railway     Yarra Bridge 1890 at Fairfield
                Closed 1929 - now Chandler Highway
• 1900     Ferntree Gully - Gembrook     Narrow Gauge.   Horseshoe Bridge 1899   
• 1916     Sale - Bairnsdale     Avon River Bridge, Stratford.    
• 1916     Bairnsdale - Orbost     Nicholson River Bridge. Nowa Nowa Bridge.   
• 1919     Wodonga - Cudgewa     Timber Viaducts   
• 1919     Noojee     Noojee Timber Viaduct - Rebuilt 1939   
• 1923     Deniliquin Line NSW     Run by VR from 1923   
• 1924     Hume Weir deviations     Constructed by VR   
• 1926     Balranald Line     Constructed by VR   
• 1928     Kerang - Stony Crossing     Constructed by VR   
• 1962     Standard Gauge: Melbourne - Albury        

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