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Six And A Half Inches From Destiny: The First Hundred Years Of The Melbourne-Wodonga Railway
Six And A Half Inches From Destiny: The First Hundred Years Of The Melbourne-Wodonga Railway
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Six and A Half Inches From Destiny: The First Hundred Years of the Melbourne-Wodonga Railway 1873-1973 -Used- (UB-019139)

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Product No.: UB-019139
Title: Six and A Half Inches From Destiny: The First Hundred Years of the Melbourne-Wodonga Railway 1873-1973
Author(s): Turton, Keith
Illustrator(s): N/A
Publisher: A.R.H.S (Victorian Division)
ISBN: 0858490129
Condition: Used
Binding: Hardcover
Dust Jacket: Fine
Edition: 1st Edition
Publication Year: 1973

Features: 133 Pages with Black/White Photos.

The Melbourne and Essendon Railway Company opened the first section of the Albury-Wodonga line from North Melbourne to Essendon in 1860. Following its takeover by the Victorian Government in 1867, the line was extended by 1872 to School House Lane on the south side of the Goulburn River near Seymour, and later that year to Seymour and then to Longwood. Benalla, Wangaratta, Springhurst and Wodonga were reached in 1873, connecting with the New South Wales Government Railways at Albury at a break-of-gauge in 1883.

Construction of a standard gauge track parallel with the broad gauge track from Albury to Melbourne was commenced in 1959, completing the Sydney-Melbourne railway. The first freight train operated on the line on 3 January 1962, followed by the first passenger train on 16 April the same year

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