“Did you know you could once travel from Oakleigh to Fairfield by train?”
In the 1870s Victorian politicians debated the virtues of constructing a 20km-long railway through Melbourne's east, simply to circumvent a privately-owned railway from South Yarra to Flinders Street Station. By 1878 the private railway had been purchased by the Victorian Government and there was no longer a need to build the orbital railway. But greedy politicians pushed legislation through parliament, authorising the construction of the railway through their own private land holdings. This is the story of Melbourne's Outer Circle Railway.
Director
Andrew McColm
Writers
Ron Killeen
Release Date
December 12, 2014
Runtime
0h 49m
Status
Released
Original Language
en
Vote Count
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