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Peterborough's 75th Anniversary Celebrations
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A souvenir booklet commemorating the 75th anniversary of the town of Peterborough South Australia & the railway line through Peterborough from Port Pirie to Cockburn. It marked celebrations from the 21st to the 29th of October 1961.
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A brief history of the Melbourne to Echuca railway in Victoria from 1864 to 1964 to commemorate the centenary of the railway opening.
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ill, maps, p.39.
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A 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.
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ill, maps, p.56.
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A photographic profile by Neville Gee of the Victorian country branch lines to Toolamba-Echuca cross-country line, Deniliquin (NSW), Balranald (NSW) & Cohuna.
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ill, maps, p.56.
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A photographic profile by Neville Gee of the Victorian country branch lines to Newlyn, Ballarat Racecourse, Waubra & Skipton.
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A photographic profile by Neville Gee of the Victorian country branch lines to Tocumwal, Picola, Girgarre, Colbinabbin, Heathcote, Lancefield.
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ill, maps, p.56.
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A photographic profile by Neville Gee of the Victorian country branch lines to Wahgunyah, Peechelba East, Oaklands, Katamatite, & Cobram.
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ill, maps, p.33.
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A brief history of the Melbourne to Echuca railway in Victoria from 1864 to 2014 to commemorate 150 years since the opening of the railway.
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index, ill, p.101.
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A history of the Melbourne to Bendigo Railway in Victoria from 1862 to 2012.
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ill, maps, p14.
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A 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.
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A 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.
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ill, maps, p.8.
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Tour 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 1965
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ill, p.6.
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Tour 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 1971
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ill, maps, p.74.
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A history of the Mornington Peninsula Railways in Victoria, including to Mornington, Red Hill & Stony Point.
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index, ill, maps, p.196.
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A history of the Caulfield to Oakleigh railway line in Melbourne Victoria.
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index, ill, maps, p.63.
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The remarkable story of Kilcunda's railway history on the Nyora to Wonthaggi branch line in Victoria.
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ill, maps, p.47.
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A souvenir guide book for the Victorian Goldfields Railway from Castlemaine to Maldon in Victoria.
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ill, maps, p.52.
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A booklet to commemorate the 50 years since the closure of the Colac to Beech Forest railway in Victoria on the 30th June 1962.
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index, ill, maps, p.56.
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A history of the branch line from Moriac to Wensleydale in Victoria.
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ill, maps, p.20.
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A brief history of the railway from Colac to Alvie in Victoria from 1923 to 1954.
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A brief history of the remains of the Warburton railway from Lilydale in Melbourne.
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ill, maps, p.58.
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A brief history of the railway station at Gordon on the Melbourne to Ballarat line from its construction to its restoration by the Australian Railway Historical Society Victorian Division.
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index, ill, maps, p.181.
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A history of the private railway from Oakleigh to Elsternwick to serve the Rosstown sugar beet factory in Melbourne Victoria.
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index, ill, p.99.
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A brief history of the railway to Lilydale in Melbourne Victoria.
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index, ill, p.60.
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A brief history of the railway to Williamstown in Melbourne Victoria.
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ill, p.23.
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A history of the railway from Ballan to Bacchus Marsh to celebrate the centenary of the opening in 1889.
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ill, maps. p.168.
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A brief history of the Fitzroy and Whittlesea Railway 1889-1959 including current day operations.
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ill, maps, p.96.
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A short history of the railways in the Yarra Valley including the line to Healsville and Warburton and narrow gauge timber tramways.
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index, ill, maps, p.58.
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A descriptive history and lineside guide of the railways in the Daylesford District 1880-1978.
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A thesis on the effects of the building of the Australian Railways during the 19th century as part of an Honors Degree of a Bachelor of Economics.
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Reminiscence of railwayman Lloyd Holmes and his time working on the New South Wales and Victorian Railways in the 1950s.
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