index, ill, maps, p.133.non-fictionA history of the Victorian Railway's North East Railway from Melbourne to Wodonga in Victoria from 1873 to 1973.railroad construction - victoria - history, railroad operations - victoria - history

index, ills, p.166.A detailed history of the power stations built by the New South Wales Government Railways to provide electricity for their trains.railroad construction - new south wales - history, electric trains - new south wales - history

ill, maps, p.100.A history of the building of the New South Wales Government Railway from Kiama to Bomaderry on the South Coast.railway construction - new south wales - history, shoalhaven region - history

ill, maps, p.64.non-fictionA history of railway tunnels in Australiarailway tunnels - australia - history, railway construction - australia

ill, maps, p.64.non-fictionA history of railway viaducts in Australiarailway construction - australia, railway viaducts - australia - history

Set of two photocopies of articles written by Rosalind Landells, Hon Secretary of Brighton Historical Society and published in the Hampton Bugle about the St Kilda Brighton electric railway or tramway. .1 - "Those first fainting days of Brighton's Street Railway" - Feb 1987 - looks at the construction and history of the tramway. .2 - "Those wonderful old tramways finally rolled to a halt" - March 1987 - looks at the closure of the tramway, the MMTB, riding the trams - includes a cartoon by Duffy.trams, tramways, st kilda brighton, vr, construction, opening, closure, mmtb, cartoons

Australian Railway Enthusiast Magazine - March 1990, colour front cover containing an article titled "Australia's First electric Tramway", written by William F Scott - reviewing the Box Hill to Doncaster Tramway. Looks at its development, the Centennial exhibition, construction, service, closure, memorials, the centenary. Has a number of photographs. On the rear cover is the timetable poster of the tramway.trams, tramways, box hill, doncaster, history

ill, maps, p.60.non-fictionA history of the Ballarat to Ararat railway in western Victoria and a lineside guide to the stations on the line. The book was issued by the Australian Railway Historical Society, Victorian Division on the occasion of the Centenary Celebrations of the opening of the railway to Ararat on the 5th April 1875.railroad construction - victoria - history, railway services: ballarat-ararat railway. victoria. ararat region

index, ill, maps, p.238.non-fictionA comprehensive history of the Victorian Railway's branch line from Kyneton to Redesdale in Victoria from 1891 to 1954.railroad construction - victoria - history, railroads -- victoria -- redesdale -- history

ill, maps, p.65.non-fictionA history of the Victorian Railway's line to Numurkah and its branch line to Picola in Victoria.railroad construction - victoria - history, numurkah -- railways -- history

ill, maps, p.122.non-fictionA history of the Victorian Railway's branch line from Wodonga to Cudgewa in Victoria.railroad construction - victoria - history, railroads - victoria - cudgewa - history

ill, maps, p.104.non-fictionA short history of the Victorian Railway's branch line from Wodonga to Cudgewa in Victoria.railroad construction - victoria - history, railroads - victoria - cudgewa - history

ill, maps, p.41.non-fictionA Pictorial history of the Victorian Railways narrow gauge 2'6" branch line from Wangaratta to Whitfield and a tribute to the late Edward A. Downs, Railway Historian.railroad construction - victoria - history, railroads - victoria - whitfield - history

index, ill, maps, p.29.non-fictionA brief history of the Victorian Railway's branch line from Tallarook to Mansfield.railroad construction - victoria - history, railroads - victoria - mansfield - history

index, ill, maps, p.100.non-fictionA history of the Victorian Railway's narrow gauge 2'6" branch line from Moe to Walhalla.railroad construction - victoria - history, vr narrow gauge railways - victoria - history

index, ill, maps, p.113.non-fictionA history of the Mount Somers Tramway in the mid-Canterbury region of the South Island of New Zealand.railroad construction - new zealand, railroad operations - new zealand

ill, maps, p.74.non-fictionA history of the Mornington Peninsula Railways in Victoria, including to Mornington, Red Hill & Stony Point.railroad construction - victoria - history, mornington peninsula - railways - history

ill, p.6.non-fictionTour notes for a train trip to Katamatite branch line from Shepparton in Victoria. A trip run by the Australian Railway Historical Society Victorian Division on Saturday 10th July 1971railroad construction - victoria - history, katamatite tramway - railway - history

ill, maps, p.8.non-fictionTour notes for a train trip to Katamatite branch line from Shepparton in Victoria. A trip run by the Australian Railway Historical Society Victorian Division on Saturday 21th August 1965railroad construction - victoria - history, katamatite tramway - railway - history

ill, maps, p14.non-fictionA brief history of the Maryborough to Avoca and Ararat railway in Victoria as part of Tour notes for a train trip run by the Australian Railway Historical Society Victorian Division on Saturday 11th November 1972.railroad construction - victoria - history, maryborough to ararat railway - history

ill, maps, p16.non-fictionA brief history of the Maryborough to Avoca and Ararat railway in Victoria as part of Tour notes for a train trip run by the Australian Railway Historical Society Victorian Division on Saturday 11th November 1972.railroad construction - victoria - history, maryborough to ararat railway - history

index, ill, p.101.non-fictionA history of the Melbourne to Bendigo Railway in Victoria from 1862 to 2012.railroad construction - victoria - history, railways - bendigo - history

ill, maps, p.33.non-fictionA brief history of the Melbourne to Echuca railway in Victoria from 1864 to 2014 to commemorate 150 years since the opening of the railway.railroad construction - victoria - history, railways - echuca - history

ill, maps, p.39.non-fictionA reprint of 'A Century of Railways at Echuca' with a brief history of the Melbourne to Echuca railway in Victoria from 1864 to 1964 to commemorate the centenary of the railway opening.railroad construction - victoria - history, railways - echuca - history

ill, maps, p.39.non-fictionA brief history of the Melbourne to Echuca railway in Victoria from 1864 to 1964 to commemorate the centenary of the railway opening.railroad construction - victoria - history, railways - echuca - history

Alistair Knox Park, an oasis of peace and beauty. Covered under National Trust of Australia (Victoria) Landscape Significance and Heritage Overlay, Nillumbik Planning Scheme. Published: Nillumbik Now and Then /​ Marguerite Marshall 2008; photographs Alan King with Marguerite Marshall.; p173 It is hard to imagine that the Alistair Knox Park, an oasis of peace and beauty beside busy Main Road, Eltham, was once the township’s rubbish dump. It was only in the 1970s that the tip was transformed into this beautiful six hectare space, which later earned it a National Trust Landscape classification. Before its life as a dump, the area was used for small farms. Thanks largely to the foresight and efforts of local environmental builder Alistair Knox, the park was designed sympathetically with the character of the wider Eltham landscape. Then, appropriately, the park was named after Knox, who was an Eltham Shire Councillor from 1971 to 1975 and Shire President in 1975. The park designers were four major forces in the urban bush landscape garden –Knox, landscape designer Gordon Ford, artist Peter Glass and landscaper Ivan Stranger.1 The National Trust citation for the park, originally called Eltham Town Park, includes the Eltham railway trestle bridge and the Shillinglaw Cottage. The citation states ‘the semi-natural setting of the parkland provides a landscape which is evocative of the history of the area’. Manna Gums (Eucalyptus viminalis) and Candlebarks (Eucalyptus rubida) are significant features. Most of the park’s construction was directed by Bob Grant, Superintendent of the Parks and Gardens Department for the Eltham Shire Council. First plantings occurred in Arbour Week in 1973, then the lake and botanic area were completed in 1975, with Federal Government funding, and the toilet block in 1978. Bounded by the Eltham railway line, Panther Place, Main Road, Bridge and Susan Streets, the park is in a valley about a kilometre wide overlooked by steep hills at the east and west. The Diamond Creek flows through it and the picturesque historic timber trestle railway bridge edges the north. Informal plantings of Australian indigenous and native species in open and undulating grassed settings blend with the natural landscape of the Diamond Creek to the west. The bush-style plants, particularly around the creek, balance with open lawns, paths and a cascade flowing from a small lake to another below. A footbridge over the creek leads to the park’s west. The park includes an adventure playground and barbecue areas. The park stands on part of the land bought from the Crown in 1851 by Josiah Holloway, who subdivided it into allotments and which he called Little Eltham. Most of the land was subdivided into residential lots, but the creek valley, on which the park stands, was subdivided into farm-size lots, used mainly for orchards and grazing. One of the earliest owners was John Hicks Petty, who in 1874 bought a plot from Holloway. Other families who owned properties in that area, included Rees, Clark, Waterfall, Graham, Hill and Morant.2 In 1901 the railway was built through the area. Jock Read, an Eltham resident since around 1920, remembers several farms in the 1920s and ’30s that occupied the site of today’s park. A poultry farm, which extended from present day Panther Place, was owned by the Gahan family. Next to that farm was another for grazing cattle owned by Jack Carrucan. Beside this was land owned by John Lyon. A doctor lived beside this, and at the north-west corner of Bridge Street and Main Road stood a memorial to the soldiers who died in World War One, which was later moved to the RSL site. Mr Read also remembers other farms and orchards west of the creek In the early 1960s the Eltham Council began buying these farms and in the late 1960s turned the areas east of the Diamond Creek into a garbage tip. When this was filled above the creek’s flood plain, the tip was moved to the west of the creek.This collection of almost 130 photos about places and people within the Shire of Nillumbik, an urban and rural municipality in Melbourne's north, contributes to an understanding of the history of the Shire. Published in 2008 immediately prior to the Black Saturday bushfires of February 7, 2009, it documents sites that were impacted, and in some cases destroyed by the fires. It includes photographs taken especially for the publication, creating a unique time capsule representing the Shire in the early 21st century. It remains the most recent comprehenesive publication devoted to the Shire's history connecting local residents to the past. nillumbik now and then (marshall-king) collection, alistair knox park, eltham

ill, maps, p.22.non-fictionA history of the Victorian Railway's Gheringhap to Maroona Railway in western Victoria, complied to coincide with the Australian Railway Historical Society, Victorian Division's special train tour to Ararat via Cressy on the 15th September 1973.railroad construction - victoria - history, railroads -- victoria -- history

ill, maps, p.179.non-fictionA history of the rail network based on Portland that was developed from the 1870s to transport goods between its port and the growing inland settlements of Western Victoria and Southeast South Australiarailroad construction - victoria - history, railroads -- victoria -- history

ill, maps, p.9.non-fictionA history of the Victorian Railway's branch line from Lubeck to Bolangum in western Victoria, complied to coincide with the Australian Railway Historical Society, Victorian Division's special train tour from Melbourne to Bolangum on Saturday the 9th May 1964.railroad construction - victoria - history, railroads -- victoria -- history

ill, maps, p.76.non-fictionA history of the Victorian Railway's branch line from Robinvale to Lette in New South Wales that was built but never opened to rail traffic.railroad construction - victoria - history, railroads -- victoria -- history