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It was built to replace Bori Bunder, the terminus of the Great Indian Peninsula Railway from 1853 to 1888 and was named Victoria Terminus to commemorate the Golden Jubilee of Queen Victoria. In 1996, the station was renamed to Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus [19] [20] in honour of Shivaji, the founder and first Chhatrapati of the Maratha Empire.
The terminus was designed by British architectural engineer Frederick William Stevens in the style of Victorian Italianate Gothic Revival architecture. Its construction began in 1878, in a location south of the old Bori Bunder railway station , and was completed in 1887, the year marking 50 years of Queen Victoria's rule , the building being ...
This station was rebuilt as Victoria Terminus later in 1888. The GIPR railway line opened formally in April 1853. The inauguration was done with the maiden run of the first train from Bori Bunder to Thane on the 16th of that month. A trial run of the journey in April was conducted on the 18th November 1852, with the officials of the railway ...
In ten years the population of Victoria increased sevenfold from 76,000 to 540,000. All sorts of gold records were produced including the "richest shallow alluvial goldfield in the world" and the largest gold nugget. Victoria produced in the decade 1851–1860, twenty million ounces of gold, one third of the world's output.
Labour History (1980): 28–46. in JSTOR; Taksa, Lucy. "'About as popular as a dose of clap': Steam, diesel and masculinity at the New South Wales Eveleigh railway workshops." The Journal of Transport History 26#2 (2005): 79–97. Testro, Ron. A Pictorial History of Australian Railways (Lansdowne Press, 1971) Wills-Johnson, Nick.
The Melbourne, also known as the settlement skyline, and Yarra River The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Pre-European settlement Aboriginal Australians settled the area for at least 30,000 years. 19th century’s timeline Main article: Foundation of Melbourne A map dating to the 1880s shows the well-established suburbs of Melbourne. 1800 ...
V/Line is the operator of regional rail services in the Australian state of Victoria. [1] The stations are located on 13 passenger train lines, which all operate from Southern Cross station in Melbourne. Stations listed in bold are terminus stations.
2 February: MMTB constructs connecting line between Haymarket and Victoria Street terminus, connecting the isolated Essendon system to the rest of the network. [ 18 ] 17 April: MMTB opens Toorak Road line between Domain Road and Orrong Road along the former cable tram line.