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  2. File:Victorian-railway-network-map.svg - Wikipedia

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    English: Map of the railway network of Victoria, Australia for 2014. Excludes suburban network as seen in :Image:Melbourne_railways_map.gif, as well as V/Line passenger stations close to Geelong and Ballarat. Lines are grouped by V/Line Interurban / Intercity classifications, and region groupings. Freight and tourist railway lines also included.

  3. List of V/Line railway stations - Wikipedia

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    Southern Cross station the hub of regional rail passenger services The Victorian rail network. 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.

  4. Rail transport in Australia - Wikipedia

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    The first railways in Australia were built by private companies, based in the then colonies of New South Wales, Victoria and South Australia. The first railway was privately owned and operated and commissioned by the Australian Agricultural Company in Newcastle in 1831, a cast-iron fishbelly rail on an inclined plane as a gravitational railway ...

  5. Rail transport in Victoria - Wikipedia

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    Rail transport in the Australian state of Victoria is provided by a number of railway operators who operate over the government-owned railway lines. The network consists of 2,357 km of Victorian broad gauge (1,600 mm (5 ft 3 in)) lines, and 1,912 km of standard gauge (1,435 mm (4 ft 8 + 1 ⁄ 2 in)) freight and interstate lines; the latter increasing with gauge conversion of the former.

  6. Victorian Railways - Wikipedia

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    The Victorian Railways (VR), trading from 1974 as VicRail, was the state-owned operator of most rail transport in the Australian state of Victoria from 1859 to 1983. The first railways in Victoria were private companies, but when these companies failed or defaulted, the Victorian Railways was established to take over their operations.

  7. Freight railways in Melbourne - Wikipedia

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    Constructed from the late 1950s to eliminate the break-of-gauge at Albury for Melbourne to Sydney rail traffic, the first standard gauge freight in Victoria ran on this line on 3 January 1963. [1] Once traversed by the Intercapital Daylight , Southern Aurora and Spirit of Progress , today the only non-freight service to operate on this line are ...

  8. List of closed railway stations in Victoria - Wikipedia

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    Overview map. This is a list of former railway stations and railway lines in Victoria, Australia. Many of these stations and lines have been abandoned or demolished. There is a strong desire by communities to have many of these re-opened to better link Regional Victoria to the state capital Melbourne. Public transport has become increasingly ...

  9. Great Victorian Rail Trail - Wikipedia

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    The Great Victorian Rail Trail (previously the Goulburn River High Country Rail Trail), is in north-central Victoria, Australia, about 100 kilometres (62 mi) north-east of Melbourne, and is the second-longest rail trail in Australia, after the 161 km Brisbane Valley Rail Trail in Queensland.