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A meeting was called and it was decided that there needed to be a line from Flinders street to Sandbridge. -
The line to St Kilda was built by the Melbourne and Hobson's Bay Railway Company, to serve tourists to the seaside resort. -
St Albans railway station is located on the Sunbury line in Victoria, Australia. It serves the western Melbourne suburb of St Albans.
the section between the vicinity of the Newport workshops and Williamstown Pier was in use by Geelong-line trains.
The Pharan line was also built in 1859. -
This line was built in 1861 and branched out to Flemington. -
Smaller railway companies were losing money and they had to merge with other smaller companies or they would shut down their company.
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The Essendon line extended to Broad meadows after a very long time. -
A Regional line from Oakleigh to Paken was constructed, there was a gap between the Oakleigh line and the city and that part of the line was constructed in 1879 -
The windsor line was extended to brighton in 1878.
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a land burn in the 1880's caused a lot more railways to be constructed and this was the decade the most railway lines were constructed.
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The Frankston line was built first and then the hawthorn line was made in 1881 and was connected to Lilydale in 1883.
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In 1884 a 4th line came out of Spencers street.
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In 1887 a small two station line was built to Kew and the Brighton line was extended.
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in 1888 lines from the north east to Melbourne were being built while the inner circle line was built, the inner circle line started at the north of Melbourne it passed north Carlton, north Fitzroy, Rushill and Clifton hill.
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In 1889 the Coburg line was extended to Upfield and the Lilydale line was extended to Healsville, also a line from Ringwood to Ferntree gully was made.
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the section of the outer circle line between Camberwell and Ashburton was reopened and is still running today
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in 1890 half of the Glen Waverley line was constructed and the outer circle line was constructed.
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the stock market went down and the outer circle line couldn't keep running so it shut down.
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A shuttle train between Camberwell and Deepdene that formed a part of the inner circle line was reopened. Also a line from upper Ferntree gully to Gembrook was built with thinner lines to accompany farmer use. -
A line from Victoria park to princess bridge was built to separate the inner circle line from the Heidelberg line. -
The Heidelberg line was extended to Elfame and then onto Hurstbridge in 1912. -
After world war 1 the shuttle train from Camberwell to Deepdene was shut down. -
The Darling line was extended to Glenwaverly . This is it's current terminus. -
After world war 2 there was increasing patronage on the Melbourne's train system. The Ashburton line was extended one station to Alemein this station is it's current terminus. -
a line from Belgrave to Gembrook being closed -
The small kew line closed -
The part of the regional Whittlesea line from Epping to Whittlesea was closed, but the part from Spencer street to Epping was electrified. -
The lines from upper Ferntree gully to Belrave were widened to normal width, unfortunately the Warburton line closed down in 1964. -
The Melbourne underground rail loop act, now known as the city loop, was passed and works on this huge project started right away. -
The Pakenham line getting suburban trains running on it for the first time. -
The Healsville line closed -
The inner circle line closed. -
The city loop line opened this was the biggest train project of Melbourne's train history.
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The Werribee line was electrified -
The Altona line was extended to Laverton connecting it to the Werribee line. -
The port Melbourne and the st Kilda line, the oldest lines on the map, became isolated due to the city loop line being used and the two lines eventually closed they both turned into tram routes later on. -
The regional Cranbourne line was electrified and suburbanised in this year. -
st albans line was electrified and was extended to sunbury -
the broadmeadows line getting electrified to cragieburn
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he epping line was extended to mernda.