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81 relations: Albury railway station, Audit, Australian Rail Track Corporation, Bentleigh, Victoria, Better Farming Train (Victoria), Black Wednesday 1878, Bland Report, Bogie, Border Railways Act 1922, Brian Harper (engineer), Budget, Chief mechanical engineer, Clyde Engineering, Comeng (train), Diesel engine, Diesel–electric transmission, Dieselisation, Electric locomotive, Electric multiple unit, Electro-Motive Diesel, Elizabeth II, Erie Railroad, Freight Australia, Fruit Flyer, Geelong Flyer, General Motors, George Christian Darbyshire, Government of Victoria, Harold Winthrop Clapp, Intercapital Daylight, Locomotive, Melbourne, Metro Trains Melbourne, Metropolitan Transit Authority (Victoria), Mount Buffalo National Park, Narrow-gauge lines of the Victorian Railways, National Express, New Deal (railway), New South Wales, New South Wales Government Railways, Newport Power Station, Norman Charles Harris, Pacific National, Political football, Public Transport Corporation, Rail transport in Victoria, Railway electrification system, Railways in Melbourne, Reso Train, Richard Speight, ..., Robert Watson (engineer), Southern Aurora, Spirit of Progress, Standard-gauge railway, State Coal Mine, State Transport Authority (Victoria), Steam locomotive, Sydney, The Gippslander, The Overland, The Vinelander, The West Coaster (Victorian train), Thomas Higinbotham, Thomas James Tait, Tourism, Track gauge conversion, Train of Knowledge, Trams in Melbourne, Tramway Museum Society of Victoria, Traralgon railway station, V/Line, VicRail N type carriage, Victoria (Australia), Victorian Railways, Victorian Railways B class (diesel), Victorian Railways F class (diesel), Victorian Railways S class (diesel), VicTrack, William Elsdon, Wonthaggi, 67 Spencer Street. Expand index (31 more) »
Albury railway station
The Albury railway station is a heritage-listed railway station at Railway Place, Albury, City of Albury, New South Wales, Australia, adjacent to the border with Victoria, in Australia.
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Audit
An audit is a systematic and independent examination of books, accounts, statutory records, documents and vouchers of an organization to ascertain how far the financial statements as well as non-financial disclosures present a true and fair view of the concern.
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Australian Rail Track Corporation
The Australian Rail Track Corporation (ARTC) is a Government of Australia owned statutory corporation, established in July 1998, that manages most of Australia's interstate rail network.
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Bentleigh, Victoria
Bentleigh is a suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 13 km south-east of Melbourne's central business district.
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Better Farming Train (Victoria)
The Better Farming Train was an agricultural demonstration train which toured Victoria, Australia in the 1920s and 1930s to promote better farming practices.
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Black Wednesday 1878
Black Wednesday was a political crisis in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia on Wednesday 9 January 1878 when the Victorian Government, headed by the radical premier Graham Berry, dismissed around 300 public servants, including department heads, judges and senior officials, after the Legislative Council had failed to pass a government supply bill on the grounds that it included an expenditure item to extend the payment of members of parliament.
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Bland Report
The 'Bland Report' officially titled Report of the Board of Enquiry into the Victorian Land Transport System - Victoria 1971-72, was a report prepared by Sir Henry Bland (1909-1997) for the Victorian Government in 1972.
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Bogie
A bogie (in some senses called a truck in North American English) is a chassis or framework carrying wheelsets, attached to a vehicle, thus serving as a modular subassembly of wheels and axles.
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Border Railways Act 1922
The 1922 Border Railways Acts, were Acts passed by the Parliaments of both Victoria and New South Wales, which authorised the construction of cross border railways in the Riverina region of Australia.
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Brian Harper (engineer)
Brian Harper (BE Syd. MSc Qu. PhD Melb.) is a civil engineer and lecturer practicing in Melbourne, Australia who has contributed to documenting the history of engineering in Australia.
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Budget
A budget is a financial plan for a defined period of time, usually a year.It may also include planned sales volumes and revenues, resource quantities, costs and expenses, assets, liabilities and cash flows.
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Chief mechanical engineer
Chief mechanical engineer and locomotive superintendent are titles applied by British, Australian, and New Zealand railway companies to the person ultimately responsible to the board of the company for the building and maintaining of the locomotives and rolling stock.
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Clyde Engineering
Clyde Engineering was an Australian manufacturer of locomotives, rolling stock, and other industrial products.
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Comeng (train)
The Comeng train is a type of electric train that operates on the suburban railway network of Melbourne, Australia. They first appeared on the network in VicRail teacup livery in 1981 to replace the last of the 60-year-old Tait trains. More were ordered after the failed refurbishment and subsequent withdrawal of the Harris trains. In total 570 carriages (380 motor cars and 190 trailer cars, a total of 95 six carriage sets) were built by Comeng, Dandenong.
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Diesel engine
The diesel engine (also known as a compression-ignition or CI engine), named after Rudolf Diesel, is an internal combustion engine in which ignition of the fuel which is injected into the combustion chamber is caused by the elevated temperature of the air in the cylinder due to mechanical compression (adiabatic compression).
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Diesel–electric transmission
A diesel–electric transmission, or diesel–electric powertrain, is used by a number of vehicle and ship types for providing locomotion.
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Dieselisation
Dieselisation or dieselization is a term generally used for the increasingly common use of diesel fuel in vehicles, or known to be said "Rise of diesel power" as opposed to gasoline or steam engines.
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Electric locomotive
An electric locomotive is a locomotive powered by electricity from overhead lines, a third rail or on-board energy storage such as a battery or a supercapacitor.
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Electric multiple unit
An electric multiple unit or EMU is a multiple-unit train consisting of self-propelled carriages, using electricity as the motive power.
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Electro-Motive Diesel
Electro-Motive Diesel (EMD) is an American manufacturer of diesel-electric locomotives, locomotive products and diesel engines for the rail industry.
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Elizabeth II
Elizabeth II (Elizabeth Alexandra Mary; born 21 April 1926) is Queen of the United Kingdom and the other Commonwealth realms.
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Erie Railroad
The Erie Railroad was a railroad that operated in the northeastern United States, originally connecting New York City — more specifically Jersey City, New Jersey, where Erie's former terminal, long demolished, used to stand — with Lake Erie.
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Freight Australia
Freight Australia was an Australian railway company that purchased the V/Line Freight business from the Government of Victoria in 1999.
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Fruit Flyer
The Fruit Flyer was a fast overnight freight train operated by the Victorian Railways to bring fruit produce from the Mildura district to the Melbourne Markets.
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Geelong Flyer
The Geelong Flyer was an Australian named passenger train operated by the Victorian Railways, running from Melbourne to Geelong.
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General Motors
General Motors Company, commonly referred to as General Motors (GM), is an American multinational corporation headquartered in Detroit that designs, manufactures, markets, and distributes vehicles and vehicle parts, and sells financial services.
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George Christian Darbyshire
George Christian Darbyshire (1820 – 5 June 1898) was an English and Australian civil engineer.
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Government of Victoria
The Government of Victoria is the executive administrative authority of the Australian state of Victoria.
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Harold Winthrop Clapp
Sir Harold Winthrop Clapp KBE (7 May 1875 – 21 October 1952) was a transport administrator who over the course of thirty years had a profound effect on Australia's railway network.
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Intercapital Daylight
The Inter-Capital Daylight was a passenger train that operated between Australia's two largest cities, Sydney and Melbourne from March 1956 until August 1991.
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Locomotive
A locomotive or engine is a rail transport vehicle that provides the motive power for a train.
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Melbourne
Melbourne is the state capital of Victoria and the second-most populous city in Australia and Oceania.
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Metro Trains Melbourne
Metro Trains Melbourne, known colloquially as simply Metro, is the franchised operator of the suburban railway network in Melbourne, Australia.
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Metropolitan Transit Authority (Victoria)
The Metropolitan Transit Authority (MTA) was a Government of Victoria owned corporate body that operated suburban passenger trains, trams and buses in Victoria, Australia.
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Mount Buffalo National Park
The Mount Buffalo National Park is a national park located in the alpine region of Victoria, Australia.
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Narrow-gauge lines of the Victorian Railways
The former Victorian Railways, the state railway authority in Victoria, Australia, built a number of experimental narrow-gauge lines around the beginning of the 20th century.
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National Express
National Express is a British multinational public transport company headquartered in Birmingham that operates bus, coach, train and tram services in the United Kingdom, United States, Canada, Spain, Portugal, Malta, Germany and Morocco and long-distance coach services across Europe.
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New Deal (railway)
The New Deal for Country Passengers was a timetable introduced on 4 October 1981 in Victoria, Australia which revolutionised the provision of country passenger railway services.
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New South Wales
New South Wales (abbreviated as NSW) is a state on the east coast of:Australia.
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New South Wales Government Railways
The New South Wales Government Railways (NSWGR) was the agency of the Government of New South Wales that administered rail transport in New South Wales, Australia, between 1855 and 1932.
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Newport Power Station
The Newport Power Station was a complex of power stations located on the west bank of the Yarra River, approximately 6km south-west of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, in the suburb of Newport.
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Norman Charles Harris
Norman Charles Harris (10 April 1887 – 3 May 1963) was a decorated World War I army engineer and Chairman of Commissioners of the Victorian Railways from 1940 – 1950.
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Pacific National
Pacific National is one of Australia's largest rail freight businesses.
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Political football
A political football is a topic or issue that is seized on by opposing political parties or factions and made a more political issue than it might initially seem to be.
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Public Transport Corporation
The Public Transport Corporation (PTC) was a Government of Victoria owned statutory authority formed under the Transport Act 1983 which operated passenger and freight trains, trams and bus services.
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Rail transport in Victoria
Rail transport in Victoria, Australia, is provided by a number of railway operators who operate over the government-owned railway lines.
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Railway electrification system
A railway electrification system supplies electric power to railway trains and trams without an on-board prime mover or local fuel supply.
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Railways in Melbourne
The Melbourne rail network is a mixed-grade commuter and freight train system in the city of Melbourne, Victoria.
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Reso Train
The Reso Train, officially the State Resources Train, was a train operated by the Victorian Railways to bring business leaders from Melbourne and regional Victoria together.
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Richard Speight
Richard Speight (2 December 1838 – 19 September 1901) was an English-born commissioner of railways in the Australian state of Victoria, serving between 1883 and 1892.
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Robert Watson (engineer)
Robert Watson (21 November 1822 – 7 April 1891, Minutes of the Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers, Volume 104, Issue 1891, pages 304–305 - Thomas Telford-ICE Virtual Library) was an English and Australian civil engineer.
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Southern Aurora
The Southern Aurora was an overnight express passenger train that operated between Australia's two largest cities, Sydney and Melbourne.
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Spirit of Progress
The Spirit of Progress was the premier express passenger train on the Victorian Railways in Australia, running from Melbourne to the New South Wales border at Albury, and later through to Sydney.
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Standard-gauge railway
A standard-gauge railway is a railway with a track gauge of.
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State Coal Mine
The State Coal Mine, also known as State Coal Mine Heritage Area, is a former 20th century state-owned black coal mine located in Wonthaggi, Victoria, Australia.
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State Transport Authority (Victoria)
The State Transport Authority was a State Government of Victoria owned corporate body which operated country passenger and freight trains in Victoria, Australia.
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Steam locomotive
A steam locomotive is a type of railway locomotive that produces its pulling power through a steam engine.
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Sydney
Sydney is the state capital of New South Wales and the most populous city in Australia and Oceania.
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The Gippslander
The Gippslander was an Australian named passenger train operated by the Victorian Railways from Melbourne through the Gippsland region to Bairnsdale.
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The Overland
The Overland is an Australian passenger train service between Melbourne and Adelaide.
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The Vinelander
The Vinelander was an Australian passenger train operated by the Victorian Railways and later V/Line between Melbourne and Mildura from August 1972 until September 1993.
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The West Coaster (Victorian train)
The West Coaster was a passenger train named by the Victorian Railways.
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Thomas Higinbotham
Thomas Higinbotham (1819 – 5 September 1880), was an Irish-born civil engineer and civil servant, particularly associated with the development of railway projects in England and Australia.
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Thomas James Tait
Sir Thomas James Tait (24 July 1864 – 25 July 1940) was a Canadian-born rail executive.
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Tourism
Tourism is travel for pleasure or business; also the theory and practice of touring, the business of attracting, accommodating, and entertaining tourists, and the business of operating tours.
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Track gauge conversion
Gauge conversion is the change of one railway track gauge to another.
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Train of Knowledge
The Train of Knowledge was an Australian school camp on wheels, allowing students and teachers to visit multiple locations around Victoria without having to organise accommodation or transport.
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Trams in Melbourne
Trams are a major form of public transport in Melbourne, the capital city of the state of Victoria, Australia.
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Tramway Museum Society of Victoria
The Tramway Museum Society of Victoria was founded in 1962 with the aim of establishing an operational tramway museum.
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Traralgon railway station
Traralgon railway station is located on the Orbost line in Victoria, Australia.
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V/Line
V/Line is a government-owned corporation that operates the regional passenger train and coach services in Victoria, Australia.
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VicRail N type carriage
The N type carriages are an intercity passenger carriage used on the railways of Victoria, Australia.
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Victoria (Australia)
Victoria (abbreviated as Vic) is a state in south-eastern Australia.
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Victorian Railways
The Victorian Railways operated in the Australian state of Victoria from 1859 to 1983.
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Victorian Railways B class (diesel)
The B class are a class of diesel locomotives built by Clyde Engineering, Granville for the Victorian Railways in 1952-1953.
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Victorian Railways F class (diesel)
The F Class were a class of diesel locomotive shunters built by Dick Kerr Works for the Victorian Railways between 1951 and 1953.
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Victorian Railways S class (diesel)
The S class are a class of diesel locomotives built by Clyde Engineering, Granville for the Victorian Railways between 1957 and 1961.
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VicTrack
VicTrack is the trading name of Victorian Rail Track Corporation, a Victorian Government state-owned enterprise which owns all railway and tram lines, associated rail lands and other related rail-related infrastructure in the state of Victoria, Australia, with the exception of the heritage Puffing Billy Railway that is owned by the Emerald Tourist Railway Board.
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William Elsdon
William Elsdon (c. 1829 – 3 March 1904), Minutes of the Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers, Volume 125, Issue 1904, pages 427–8, Thomas Telford-ICE Virtual Library was an English civil engineer.
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Wonthaggi
Wonthaggi is a seaside town located south east of Melbourne via the South Gippsland and Bass Highways, in the Bass Coast Shire of Gippsland, Victoria, Australia.
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67 Spencer Street
67 Spencer Street is the former head offices of the Victorian Railways, located on Spencer Street, Melbourne, Australia.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victorian_Railways
