This file contains three items: 1/A review of the ROSSTOWN RAIL TRAIL from LIVING IN GLEN EIRA, vol. 11, 2004, Issue 4, no. 25, date and author unknown. The review explains the purpose of the Rail Trail with a brief narrative of the history behind Rosstown Sugar Mill Railway line. Concluding with information on the location of the Trail and the expected time required to walk the entire track included in the review is a map of the Rail Trail, which marks significant sites along the trail with historic pictures. 2/A newspaper article from THE AGE, dated Tuesday 21/10/1980 and written by Iola Matthews, reporting on the circumstances that led to the publication of the book RETURN TO ROSSTOWN written by Des Jowett and Ian Weickhardt. The article begins with a brief biography of the authors before moving into details of the book’s content, providing a further biography of W. Murray Ross which includes information on his financial ventures – particularly the Rosstown Rail – his marriage and children. The article includes a black and white photograph of Weickhardt and Jowett walking along the route of the railway line, an illustration of the Rosstown sugar works and a map of the area surrounding the site of the mill. 3/Three photocopies of a black and white illustration of the Rosstown sugar works from the east, undated and artist unknown.rosstown rail trail, rosstown, ross william, ross w. murray, ross murray, sugar beet mills, mills, elsternwick, land transport, railways, railway lines, railway routes, carnegie neville street, carnegie miller street, factories, market gardens, horticulture, peat, soils, land forms, topography, geology, civic issues, cone sugar industry, elsternwick plaza, elsternwick, glenhuntly road, parks and reserves, ee gunn reserve, caulfield racecourse, sportsgrounds, caulfield, carnegie, riddell parade, clarence street, aileen avenue, princes park, dover street, marara road, oakleigh road, rosanna street, murrumbeena crescent, north road, kooyong road, hawthorn road, booran road, koornang road, poath road, warragul road, railway platforms, railway buildings, bambra road, swamps, landforms, landfill, council landfill, railway bridges, bridges, railway underpasses, sporting clubs, tennis clubs, bowls clubs, rosstown railway, rosanna street reserve, maps, railway maps, living in glen eira, weickhardt ian, jowett des, caulfield south, curraweena road, oakleigh, caulfield technical school, return to rosstown, beet sugar industry, crops, land booms, land development and subdivisions, bent thomas, fink benjamin, sugar works, rosstown hotel, oamdenong road, rosstown dry cleaners, shops, rosstown road, rosstown plate, people by circumstance, migrants, accountants, occupations, professionals, the grange, real estate, grange road, financial agents, judges, rosstown estate, financial trouble, rabbit preserving, breweries, political debates, political issues, political electorates, politics, political science, debt, financial loans, court procedures, court cases, legal events and activities, malleson and riggall, widowers, seabeach railway, economics, economic deadline, depression 1890s, economic crash, mortgages, divorce, social problems, poverty, ross claude, ross roderick, world war 1914-1918, wars, military history, servicemen, australian flying corps, engineers, caulfield council, swagmen, homelessness, glenhuntly road, glenhuntly road tram, woornack road, leila road, wild cherry road, melten avenue, illustrations, steam trains, trains, horse and cart, horse-drawn transport, railway stations

Four pages of historical information of the development of railway services in Canterbury. Includes contract and correspondence numbers and dates from 28 December 1880 to 19 December 1971canterbury, canterbury railway station, canterbury road, signal boxes, railway crossings, railway gates, railway bridges, railway lines, stationmasters houses, victorian railways

The coloured print features the bridge which spans the Rupertswood Cutting and is north of Sunbury station on the Bendigo line with the Rupertswood Mansion in the middle distance.A large coloured print of a railway bridge spanning a river with a mansion in the distance.rupertswood mansion, rupertswood cutting, railways

The bridge was built 1912 / 13 c on concrete piers, single track with steel guard fence with concrete road bridge adjacen.tColour photograph of the remnant of railway bridge across the Mitchell River at Bairnsdale Victoriarailway

Photo of Laburnum railway viaduct and 'Toot Toot' sign before road straightening.Photo of Laburnum railway viaduct and 'Toot Toot' sign before road straightening.laburnum street, blackburn, champion, isaac, railway bridges

Black & white photograph of Canterbury Road shops looking to the east from Balwyn Road. c1970.canterbury, canterbury road, carnell & sons, railway bridges

Black and white photograph of Canterbury Road Canterbury from opposite Willandra Avenue looking to the westcanterbury, canterbury road, canterbury mansions, railway bridges, power and telegraph lines, telegraph and light poles, canterbury post office

B&W photos of various locations in Port Melbourne Sandridge railway bridge over Yarra in MelbourneSeveral have descriptions of locations in pencil on rear of photostransport - railways, sandridge railway

Research, interpretation and management recommendations for the Nicholson River Railway Bridge, East Gippsland, Victoria, by a Forestec student.bridges, transport