Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
Hobsons Bay is a small open bay in Victoria, Australia, and is the northernmost part of the larger Port Phillip Bay.Its western and eastern boundaries are marked by Point Gellibrand in Williamstown and Point Ormond in Elwood respectively, and defines the coastal margin of the Melbourne suburbs of Wiliamstown, Newport, Port Melbourne, Albert Park, Middle Park, St. Kilda West, St. Kilda and Elwood.
This was a group of 18 2-4-0WT passenger steam locomotives, built by Robert Stephenson & Company and an extra locomotive built from spare parts supplied with the other 18. . These locomotives not only provided the bulk workforce of the early private railway operators in Victoria, but upon their withdrawal they once again proved themselves as useful as contractors locos building some of the ...
The City of Hobsons Bay is a local government area in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. It comprises the south-western suburbs between 6 and 20 km from the Melbourne city centre . It was founded on 22 June 1994 during the amalgamation of local councils by the state government from the City of Williamstown and the City of Altona , as well as the ...
Williamstown is a suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 11 km (6.8 mi) south-west of Melbourne's Central Business District, located within the City of Hobsons Bay local government area. Williamstown recorded a population of 14,407 at the 2021 census .
A sewage plant was opened at Ōkahu Bay, to the north-east of Hobson Bay, in 1908 (now the site of Kelly Tarlton's Sea Life Aquarium). The sewage plant caused significant pollution in the bay, including the Ngāti Whātua Ōrākei village found on the bay's shores. [7] [8] Over time, Hobson Bay became more silted and shallow due to the sewage ...
Seaholme was the name of a housing estate developed in the early 1920s, which was marketed as the next stage of development of the adjoining suburb of Altona. [2] It is a bayside enclave within Altona, bounded in the west by Millers Road and in the north by the Altona Coastal Park. Seaholme Post Office opened on 2 July 1951 and closed in 1971. [3]
Williamstown, Victoria (3 C, 25 P, 1 F) Pages in category "City of Hobsons Bay" The following 14 pages are in this category, out of 14 total.
Routes of the company's inaugural lines The locomotive that hauled the inaugural train on 12 September 1854 and continued in service for the following three months. It was hurriedly built by Robertson, Martin & Smith in time for the inauguration of the Melbourne and Hobson's Bay railway when production of Robert Stephenson and Company's locomotives in the UK was delayed.