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Kilmore Railway Station
Kilmore railway station was a railway station servicing the town of Kilmore, Victoria, Australia. It was located on Rutledge Street, Kilmore, to the east of Assumption College. It opened on 1 October 1888 along with the first section of the Heathcote branch line. The town had previously been served by a Kilmore station east of the town on the main North East railway line, which was renamed Kilmore East railway station upon its opening. The station was serviced by the Bylands Railway Reservoir. The local council pressed for the construction of refreshment rooms in 1889, and these were in operation by 1896. There was a train accident at the station in 1892 and a benzene explosion there in 1903. It was the junction station for the short-lived Lancefield railway line from 1892 to 1897, after which that line (which had been a through line to Clarkefield railway station Clarkefield railway station is a regional railway station on the Deniliquin line, part of the Victorian ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kilmore, Victoria
Kilmore () is a town in the Australian state of Victoria. Located north of Melbourne, it is the oldest inland town in Victoria by the combination of age and physical occupation, and because it had unique agricultural attributes to drive that earliest settlement. It grew very rapidly to become four times bigger than its nearest inland rival by 1851. Its spectacular growth continued to match that of the major gold mining towns of Ballarat, Bendigo and Beechworth until at least 1861. History The traditional owners of Kilmore and the Kilmore Plains are the Taungurung people, a part of the Kulin nation that inhabited a large portion of central Victoria including Port Phillip Bay and its surrounds. The Tommy McRae artwork held by the National Gallery of Australia depicts the "Kilmore Tribe Holding Corobboree", and a child pioneer of Kilmore, James Hamilton, describes in detail just such a corroboree at Kilmore in 1845. The area was known to the Taungurung as ''Mumillinuck''. Kilm ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Australia
Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country comprising mainland Australia, the mainland of the Australia (continent), Australian continent, the island of Tasmania and list of islands of Australia, numerous smaller islands. It has a total area of , making it the list of countries and dependencies by area, sixth-largest country in the world and the largest in Oceania. Australia is the world's flattest and driest inhabited continent. It is a megadiverse countries, megadiverse country, and its size gives it a wide variety of landscapes and Climate of Australia, climates including deserts of Australia, deserts in the Outback, interior and forests of Australia, tropical rainforests along the Eastern states of Australia, coast. The ancestors of Aboriginal Australians began arriving from south-east Asia 50,000 to 65,000 years ago, during the Last Glacial Period, last glacial period. By the time of British settlement, Aboriginal Australians spoke 250 distinct l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Assumption College (Worcester)
Assumption University is a Private university, private, Catholic Church, Roman Catholic university in Worcester, Massachusetts, United States. Assumption was founded in 1904 by the Augustinians of the Assumption. It enrolls about 2,000 students and offers 37 majors and 50 minors. The university confers Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Science degrees in its undergraduate program, and Master of Arts, Master of Science, and Master of Business Administration degrees as well as graduate study certificates. With the transition from Assumption College to Assumption University in 2020, Assumption reorganized into five schools: the D'Amour College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, the Grenon School of Business, the Froelich School of Nursing, the School of Health Professions, and the School of Graduate Studies. History Early years Assumption was founded in 1904 by the Augustinians of the Assumption, a Catholic order under the Augustinians, Augustinian Rule dedicated to service through teac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Heathcote Railway Line
The Heathcote railway line was a cross-country link between Bendigo railway station, Bendigo and Heathcote Junction railway station, Heathcote Junction. It was partly opened in 1888 and, by 1890, it was fully operational.Wallan - Bendigo Victorian Railways Grades Book It was partially closed in 1958 and fully closed in 1968. In 1975, it was decided to dismantle the track and, today, only some trestle bridges remain. History The line was authorised by the Parliament of Victoria, Victorian Parliament in 1881, and construction began in 1888. The first section, between Heathcote, Victoria, Heathcote and Bendigo opened in October 1888, and the entire line became operational in August 1890. Including 50 bridges, the line took 21 months to complete, at a cost of ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kilmore Free Press
Kilmore may refer to: Places Australia *Electoral district of Kilmore, Victoria *Kilmore, Victoria, Australia, a town *Shire of Kilmore, a local government area north of Melbourne Ireland *Kilmore, County Cavan, a parish *Kilmore, County Wexford, a village *Kilmore, Dublin, a suburb *Kilmore Quay, County Wexford, a fishing village Northern Ireland * Kilmore, County Antrim, a townland in County Antrim *Kilmore, County Armagh, a village and townland in County Armagh *Kilmore, County Down, a village, parish and townland Other places *Kilmore, Skye, Scotland *Kilmore, Indiana, United States People *Chris Kilmore (born 1973), American musician and DJ *Kevin Kilmore (born 1959), English footballer Other uses *Bishop of Kilmore *Diocese of Kilmore (other) See also * Kilmore East, Victoria Kilmore East is a locality in the Australian state of Victoria, 65 kilometres north of Melbourne. At the , Kilmore East had a population of 417. Kilmore East was settled by John ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
North East Railway Line
The North East railway line is a railway line in Victoria (Australia), Victoria, Australia. The line runs from Southern Cross railway station on the western edge of the Melbourne Melbourne City Centre, central business district to Albury railway station in the border settlement of Albury-Wodonga, serving the cities of Wangaratta and Seymour, Victoria, Seymour, and smaller towns in northeastern Victoria. The railway line is both standard gauge and 5 ft 3 in gauge railways, broad gauge. It originally was built as broad gauge the entire length, but another track was built as standard gauge between and , with construction of the standard gauge track commencing in November 1959 and completed in January 1962, completing the Sydney–Melbourne rail corridor, Sydney-Melbourne standard gauge railway. Between 2008 and 2010, the broad gauge track between Seymour and Albury was finally converted to be the line's second standard gauge track. The original section between Southern Cross and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kilmore East Railway Station
Kilmore East railway station is located on the Tocumwal line in Victoria, Australia. It serves the town of Kilmore East, and opened on 18 April 1872 as Kilmore. It was renamed Kilmore East on 1 October 1888.Kilmore East Vicsig The town of Kilmore is some distance to the west, at a much higher elevation, and was unable to be served directly by the main-line railway. There is a disused at the station, as well as a staffed . [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Argus (Melbourne)
''The Argus'' was an Australian daily morning newspaper in Melbourne from 2 June 1846 to 19 January 1957, and was considered to be the general Australian newspaper of record for this period. Widely known as a conservative newspaper for most of its history, it adopted a left-leaning approach from 1949. ''The Argus''s main competitor was David Syme's more liberal-minded newspaper, ''The Age ''The Age'' is a daily newspaper in Melbourne, Australia, that has been published since 1854. Owned and published by Nine Entertainment, ''The Age'' primarily serves Victoria (Australia), Victoria, but copies also sell in Tasmania, the Austral ...''. History The newspaper was originally owned by William Kerr, who was also Melbourne's town clerk from 1851 to 1856 and had been a journalist at the '' Sydney Gazette'' before moving to Melbourne in 1839 to work on John Fawkner's newspaper, the ''Port Phillip Patriot''. The first edition was published on 2 June 1846. The paper soon became k ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Herald (Melbourne)
''The Herald'' was a morning – and later – evening broadsheet newspaper published in Melbourne, Australia, from 3 January 1840 to 5 October 1990. It later merged with its sister morning newspaper '' The Sun News-Pictorial'' to form the ''Herald-Sun''. Founding The ''Port Phillip Herald'' was first published as a semi-weekly newspaper on 3 January 1840 from a weatherboard shack in Collins Street. It was the fourth newspaper to start in Melbourne. The paper took its name from the region it served. Until its establishment as a separate colony in 1851, the area now known as Victoria was a part of New South Wales and it was generally referred to as the Port Phillip district. Preceding it was the short-lived '' Melbourne Advertiser'' which John Pascoe Fawkner first produced on 1 January 1838 as hand-written editions for 10 weeks and then printed for a further 17 weekly issues, the '' Port Phillip Gazette'' and ''The Port Phillip Patriot and Melbourne Advertiser''. But within ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lancefield Railway Line
The Lancefield railway line, or the Clarkefield and Lancefield Railway, was a former broad gauge railway in central Victoria (Australia), Victoria, connecting Clarkefield railway station on the Bendigo railway line, Bendigo line to Kilmore railway station on the Heathcote railway line, Heathcote line, via Lancefield, Victoria, Lancefield. However, the ill-fated Lancefield-Kilmore section operated only briefly in the 1890s so, for much of its history, the line existed simply as a branch line, with its terminus at Lancefield station. History Clarkefield-Lancefield section The branch line off the Melbourne-Bendigo line originated at Clarkefield, Victoria, Clarkefield, then known as Lancefield Junction, and ran to Bolinda, Victoria, Bolinda, Monegeetta, Victoria, Monegeetta, Monegeetta North, Victoria, North Monegeetta, Romsey, Victoria, Romsey and Lancefield, Victoria, Lancefield, and was opened on 6 June 1881. The Lancefield-Clarkefield section of the branch was closed on 13 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Clarkefield Railway Station
Clarkefield railway station is a regional railway station on the Deniliquin line, part of the Victorian railway network. It serves the north-western suburb and town of Clarkefield, in Victoria, Australia. Clarkefield station is a ground level unstaffed station, featuring two side platforms. It opened in December 1862.Clarkefield VicsigClarkefield VR History The station had various names. It initially opened as Lancefield Road, then it was renamed to Lancefield Junction in 1881. Then it had two various names of the same pronunciation, but different spelling. It was renamed to Clarkfield on 11 January 1926, then finally was given its current name of Clarkefiel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Age
''The Age'' is a daily newspaper in Melbourne, Australia, that has been published since 1854. Owned and published by Nine Entertainment, ''The Age'' primarily serves Victoria (Australia), Victoria, but copies also sell in Tasmania, the Australian Capital Territory and border regions of South Australia and southern New South Wales. It is delivered both in print and digital formats. The newspaper shares some articles with its sister paper ''The Sydney Morning Herald''. ''The Age'' is considered a newspaper of record for Australia, and has variously been known for its investigative reporting, with its journalists having won dozens of Walkley Awards, Australia's most prestigious journalism prize. , ''The Age'' had a monthly readership of 5.4 million. , this had fallen to 4.55 million. History Foundation ''The Age'' was founded by three Melbourne businessmen: brothers John and Henry Cooke (who had arrived from New Zealand in the 1840s) and Walter Powell. The first editi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
