Commuters, Shoppers and Scholars - by Marc Fiddian
 

 

Synopsis  
Please not that this is a second hand book, and have inscriptions on the title page

Only 19 years after John Batman had decided that  the banks along the Yarra River would be the place for a village, Melbourne opened Australia’s first e=railway. The 3.6km line from Melbourne to Sandbridge (Port Melbourne), opened on September 12^th, 1854, was a humble start to a suburban network that developed into one of the most extensive in the world by the 1880s