Re: First line closure in Victoria

[David Langley <del@ancc.com.au>]

Brown Family wrote:

> On Sat, 25 Mar 2000 22:32:26 +1100, Roderick Smith
> <rodsmith@werple.net.au> wrote:
>
> >Newport - Greenwich Pier, superseded by the government line to Melbourne
> >Batman Hill [Spencer St], 1859.
> >
> 6th July 1857 actually (VR to '62 page 36).

Try 27 July 1857. Don't believe everything you read in VR to '62. Quite a few
dates have since been disproved.

> Half a mile long, it was only ever intended to be a temporary track
> anyway pending completion of the Williamstown line.

But a closure just the same.

> St. Kilda - Windsor is my bet. "Disused" since October 1862 and
> dismantled in 1867 (ibid. page 58).

1 October 1862.

David.