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Sandringham Railway Station
Sandringham railway station is a commuter railway station and the Terminal train station, terminus of the Sandringham line, which is part of the Railways in Melbourne, Melbourne railway network. It serves the south-eastern suburb of Sandringham, Victoria, Sandringham, in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Sandringham station is a ground level premium station, featuring a single platform. It opened on 2 September 1887. A signal box is located at the Rail directions#Up and down, up (Flinders Street railway station, Flinders Street) end of the station, whilst a Rail yard, stabling yard is located directly opposite to the station, stabling up to four trains overnight. History Sandringham station opened on 2 September 1887, when the railway line from Brighton Beach railway station, Brighton Beach was extended. Like the suburb itself, the station was named after Sandringham House, which was inspired by landowner and Parliament of Victoria, parliamentarian Charles Jones (Victorian polit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Public Transport Victoria
Public Transport Victoria (PTV) is the brand name for public transport in the Australian state of Victoria. It was previously the trading name of the Public Transport Development Authority (PTDA), a now-defunct statutory authority in Victoria, responsible for providing, coordinating, and promoting public transport. PTV began operating on 2 April 2012, taking over many of the responsibilities previously exercised by the Director of Public Transport and the Department of Transport. It also took over the marketing of public transport in Victoria from Metlink and Viclink, as well as responsibility for the myki ticketing system, formerly handled by the Transport Ticketing Authority. PTV's functions were transferred to the Department of Transport and Planning (DTP) on 1 July 2019. However, PTV continues to exist as the brand for public transport services in Victoria and refers to the Public Transport division of DTP. Governance PTV was the trading name of the Public Tr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Signal Box
A signal is both the process and the result of transmission of data over some media accomplished by embedding some variation. Signals are important in multiple subject fields including signal processing, information theory and biology. In signal processing, a signal is a function that conveys information about a phenomenon. Any quantity that can vary over space or time can be used as a signal to share messages between observers. The '' IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing'' includes audio, video, speech, image, sonar, and radar as examples of signals. A signal may also be defined as observable change in a quantity over space or time (a time series), even if it does not carry information. In nature, signals can be actions done by an organism to alert other organisms, ranging from the release of plant chemicals to warn nearby plants of a predator, to sounds or motions made by animals to alert other animals of food. Signaling occurs in all organisms even at cellular level ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rail Freight Transport
Rail freight transport is the use of railways and trains to transport cargo as opposed to human passengers. A freight train, cargo train, or goods train is a group of freight cars (US) or goods wagons (International Union of Railways) hauled by one or more locomotives on a railway, transporting cargo all or some of the way between the shipper and the intended destination as part of the logistics chain. Trains may haul bulk material handling, bulk material, intermodal containers, general freight or specialized freight in purpose-designed cars. Rail freight practices and economics vary by country and region. When considered in terms of ton-miles or tonne-kilometers hauled, Energy efficiency in transport#Trains, energy efficiency can be greater with rail transportation than with other means. Maximum economies are typically realized with bulk commodities (e.g., coal), especially when hauled over long distances. Moving goods by rail often involves transshipment costs, particularly ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Black Rock, Victoria
Black Rock is a suburb in Melbourne, Victoria (Australia), Victoria, Australia, 18 km south-east of Melbourne's Melbourne central business district, Central Business District, located within the City of Bayside Local government areas of Victoria, local government area. Black Rock recorded a population of 6,389 at the 2021 Australian census, 2021 census. History The suburb was named after Black Rock House, a grand residence built by Charles Ebden in 1856, who had taken the name from Blackrock, Dublin, Black Rock, Dublin. Ebden was an early Port Phillip pastoralist as well as being a businessman and parliamentarian representing the seat of Electoral district of Brighton, Brighton in the Parliament of Victoria, Victorian Parliament. Black Rock House is on the Register of the National Estate. The northern part of the suburb between Beach Road, Melbourne, Beach Road and Bluff Road was one of the early estates in the parish of Moorabbin developed by Josiah Holloway in the 1850s. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Victorian Railways
The Victorian Railways (VR), trading from 1974 as VicRail, was the state-owned operator of most rail transport in the Australian state of Victoria from 1859 to 1983. The first railways in Victoria were private companies, but when these companies failed or defaulted, the Victorian Railways was established to take over their operations. Most of the lines operated by the Victorian Railways were of . However, the railways also operated up to five Narrow gauge lines of the Victorian Railways, narrow gauge lines between 1898 and 1962, and a line between Albury railway station, Albury and Melbourne from 1961. History Formation A Department of Railways (1858–71), Department of Railways was created in 1856 with the first appointment of staff. British engineer, George Christian Darbyshire was made first Engineer-in-Chief in 1857, and steered all railway construction work until his replacement by Thomas Higinbotham in 1860. In late 1876, New York consulting engineer Walton Evans arran ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Trams In Melbourne
The Melbourne tramway network is a Tram, tramway system serving the city of Melbourne, Victoria (Australia), Victoria, Australia. The tramway network is centred around the Melbourne central business district (CBD) and consists of approximately 1,700 Tram stop, tram stops across 24 routes. It is the largest operational urban tram network in the world and one of the most used, with more than 500 trams and of double tram track. It carried 154.8 million passengers over the year 2023-24. Trams are the second most utilised form of public transport in Melbourne after the city's metropolitan Railways in Melbourne, commuter railway network. Trams have operated continuously in Melbourne since 1885 (the horse tram line in Fairfield, Victoria, Fairfield opened in 1884, but was at best an irregular service). Since then they have become a distinctive part of Melbourne's character and feature in tourism and travel advertising. Melbourne cable tramway system, Melbourne's cable tram system ope ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Herald Sun
The ''Herald Sun'' is a Conservatism, conservative daily tabloid newspaper based in Melbourne, Australia, published by The Herald and Weekly Times, a subsidiary of News Corp Australia, itself a subsidiary of the American Rupert Murdoch, Murdoch owned News Corp. The ''Herald Sun'' primarily serves Melbourne and the state of Victoria (Australia), Victoria and shares many articles with other News Corporation daily newspapers, especially those from Australia. It is also available for purchase in Tasmania, the Australian Capital Territory and border regions of South Australia and southern New South Wales such as the Riverina and the South Coast (New South Wales), South Coast, and is available digitally through its website and apps. In 2017, the paper had a daily circulation of 350,000 from Monday to Friday. The ''Herald Sun'' newspaper is the product of a Mergers and acquisitions, merger in 1990 of two newspapers owned by The Herald and Weekly Times Limited: the morning tabloid ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Victorian Legislative Assembly
The Victorian Legislative Assembly is the states and territories of Australia, state lower house of the bicameral Parliament of Victoria in Australia; the state upper house being the Victorian Legislative Council. Both houses sit at Parliament House, Melbourne, Parliament House in Spring Street, Melbourne, Spring Street, Melbourne. The main colour used for the upholstery and carpets furnishing the Chamber of the Legislative Assembly is green. The presiding officer of the Legislative Assembly is the Speaker of the Victorian Legislative Assembly, Speaker. There are presently 88 member of parliament, members of the Legislative Assembly elected from single-member divisions. History Victoria (Australia), Victoria was proclaimed a Colony on 1 July 1851 separating from the Colony of New South Wales by an act of the British Parliament. The Legislative Assembly was created on 13 March 1856 with the passing of the ''Victorian Electoral Bill'', five years after the creation of the original ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Jones (Victorian Politician)
Charles Edwin Jones (1828 – 18 March 1903) was an Australian politician, member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly 1864 to 1871 and 1886 to 1889. Biography Jones was born in Plymouth, Devon, England, to Welsh tailor John Jones and Elizabeth, ''née'' Tucker, becoming a tailor like his father. He became involved in radical and temperance causes and vigorously opposed Roman Catholicism. He married Anne Letitia Angear at Devonport in 1850, and in 1851 the couple migrated to Melbourne where Jones continued to work as a tailor until 1862. He was elected to Melbourne City Council in 1862 and remained until October 1865, his activism against Premier John O'Shanassy's "Irish ministry" led him to be associated with the protectionists despite his earlier free trade leanings. In 1864, having been persuaded by the Orange Order to stand for the Victorian Parliament, he was elected to the seat of Ballarat East as a supporter of James McCulloch, and was appointed government whip. J ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Parliament Of Victoria
The Parliament of Victoria is the bicameral legislature of the Australian state of Victoria (state), Victoria that follows a Westminster System, Westminster-derived parliamentary system. It consists of the Monarchy in Australia, King, represented by the governor of Victoria, the Victorian Legislative Assembly, Legislative Assembly and the Victorian Legislative Council, Legislative Council. Members of the Victorian government are drawn from both chambers, creating a Fusion of Powers, fused executive. The parliament meets at Parliament House, Melbourne, Parliament House in the state capital Melbourne. The current Parliament was elected on 26 November 2022, sworn in on 20 December 2022 and is the 60th parliament in Victoria. The two Houses of Parliament have 128 members in total, 88 in the Legislative Assembly (lower house) and 40 in the Legislative Council (upper house). Victoria has compulsory voting and uses Instant-runoff voting, full preferential voting in Single-winner voting ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sandringham House
Sandringham House is a country house in the parish of Sandringham, Norfolk, England. It is one of the royal residences of Charles III, whose grandfather, George VI, and great-grandfather, George V, both died there. The house stands in a estate in the Norfolk Coast Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. The house is listed as Grade II* and the landscaped gardens, park and woodlands are on the National Register of Historic Parks and Gardens. The site has been occupied since Elizabethan times, when a large manor house was constructed. This was replaced in 1771 by a Georgian mansion for the owners, the Hoste Henleys. In 1836 Sandringham was bought by John Motteux, a London merchant, who already owned property in Norfolk and Surrey. Motteux had no direct heir, and on his death in 1843, his entire estate was left to Charles Spencer Cowper, the son of Motteux's close friend Emily Temple, Viscountess Palmerston. Cowper sold the Norfolk and the Surrey estates and embarked on rebui ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brighton Beach Railway Station
Brighton Beach railway station is a commuter railway station, located on the Sandringham line in Victoria, Australia. It serves the south-eastern Melbourne suburb of Brighton, opened on 21 December 1861 as Beach, and renamed Brighton Beach on 1 January 1867. Brighton Beach is a ground level premium station, featuring three platforms, an island platform with two faces, a curved face on platform 2 and a straight face on platform 1 and one side platform with a curved face, however, platform one is not in use while platforms 2 and 3 are in use. The station building is listed on the Victorian Heritage Register, noted for its unusual shape and proximity to the coastline. The Brighton Bathing Boxes are located a short walk from the station. The station consists of three platforms, a terminating platform currently used as a siding, and two curved platforms, built in 1887 when the line was extended to Sandringham, accessed through the station building. The single station building, co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
