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THE VICTORIAN RAILWAYS 1854 – 1904

Table of Contents
Preface
Introduction – Victoria’s First Age of Railways
1. Railway Development in Victoria to 1860
2. Higinbotham Takes Over
3. Higinbotham vs Parliament
4. Light Lines, Locomotives & Protection
5. Higinbotham and John Woods
6. Railway Administration Under Elsdon and Bent 1880 – 1883
7. The Great Engineering Issue – Stopping Trains
8. The Federal Vision and Management Reform
9. Shaping Things To Come – The ‘Octopus Act’
10. Speight’s New Broom And The Second Inter-Colonial Railway
11. Building the ‘New Works’ and New Lines
12. New Blood and New Initiatives
13. Cutting Down Tall Poppies
14. Depression – The Passing of the Old Guard
15. Mathieson and Recovery
16. Federation & the Royal Visit
17. The Engineman’s Strike, Bent and Thomas Tait
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ENGINEERS AND POLITICIANS

THE VICTORIAN RAILWAYS

1854 – 1904

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