Re: Railway over Yarra River.

["The Kinnears" <ellen316@primus.com.au>]

the line you are talking i think was removed for construction of crown
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Garry Hoddinett <hoddos@netspace.net.au> wrote in message
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> Jackson Harding <jaxsonjo@camtech.net.au> wrote in message
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>  This was the bridge that carried the St Kilda and Port Melbourne lines.
> Both were short lines, part of the electrified suburban network.  Neither
> were connected to the Underground Loop and both were closed in the mid
> eighties. There is now (or at least last time I was in Melbourne, it may
> have been Jeffed now) a "light rail" (read large tram) service along the
old
> route that was diverted along Spencer St before it got to the bridge.  The
> Pt Melbourne line was often claimed to be the first railway line in
> Australia. AFAIK the bridge actually carried two tracks.
> > Jackson
>
> Sorry but the line was definitely not the old St Kilda & Port Melbourne
line
> bridge over the Yarra.  That bridge is also visible from the Rialto Tower
> and it was double track as you say but it is to the east of the building
> (Just to the south of Flinders Street Station).
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