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Name	Detail	File number	Level
Melbourne/Williamstown Railway Line WILLIAMSTOWN VIC 3016 - Property No B6452	The Melbourne to Williamstown Railway Line is culturally significant at the State level owing to its historic, aesthetic, social and scientific (technical) values. The factors which establish its historic importance are as follows: 1) It is, together with the Spencer Street to Sunbury portion of the Echuca railway, the first and oldest Government-built line in the State, having been opened on 13/01/1859. 2) It was the railway built to serve the Government port at ... more	B6452	State
Part of Upfield Railway Line Park Street,, BRUNSWICK VIC 3056 - Property No B5973	The Upfield railway line was opened in 1884 to provide transport for the predominantly industrial and working class northern suburbs of Melbourne. Established industries such as the brickworks and potteries took advantage of the line by constructing sidings to their works. Hoffman's brickworks, Cornwell's pottery, Miller's ropeworks and Coburg grain sheds, all of which are significant in their own right, prospered in part thanks to the railway. This line is intrinsically ... more	B5973	Regional
Healesville-Lilydale Railway Line HEALESVILLE VIC 3777 - Property No B4444		B4444	File only
Ravenswood Siding - Melbourne/Echuca Railway Line RAVENSWOOD VIC 3453 - Property No B6506	The remaining section of this siding is significant at the State and National levels in that it demonstrates the use of chaired rail by the Victorian Railways Department for the Trunk Lines and, more particularly, the following stages in the evolution of this long obsolete method of permanent way construction: a) The use of joint chairs and intermediate chairs at regular intervals inferring that the original wrought iron rail lengths were 12 feet, as is known through documentary ... more	B6506	National
Wodonga-Cudgewa Railway Line BANDIANA VIC 3694 - Property No L10238	This railway corridor is significant for its outstanding scenery of lush valleys, open forests, fern gullies and mountain views, interesting bridges, bends and gradients. Recorded 07/06/1982.	L10238	Regional
Port Melbourne & St Kilda Railway Lines - Historic Area Lines from Melbourne to Port Melbourne & St Kilda,, ST KILDA VIC 3182 - Property No B4794	The significance of the Port Melbourne and St Kilda railways derives from their formative influences on Melbourne's economic growth and suburban form. Australia's first public steam train commenced services to Port Melbourne in 1854. Flinders Street was thus established as the foundation of Melbourne's rail network. The Port Melbourne railway was an essential component in the development of Melbourne as a commercial city in the nineteenth century, and remained as the main gateway ... more	B4794	National
Mount Alexander and Murray River Rail way Line Melbourne-Echuca Railway Line , Melbourne - Bendigo - Echuca Railway Line ECHUCA VIC 3564 - Property No B5323	Opened in five stages from 10/2/59 to 19/9/64, this railway, known initially as the Melbourne, Mt Alexander and Murray River Railway by its promoters, and later, during construction, as the Melbourne and River Murray railway, was the largest of the Colony's first two trunk lines. It is significant for its close adoption of English engineering and architectural standards and survives as a monument to the work of engineers-in-chief George Christian Darbyshire (1856-1860) and more ... more	B5323	State