Traces the history of Victoria's railways and the social history and development of traffic in metropolitan and regional areas. Contents include: Introduction: Victoria and the Railway Age Marvellous Melbourne and its Early Railways, 1854-1878 Rails to the Goldfields The Higinbotham Era: Coloured Lines, Light Lines and Borders Breached Climax and Denouement: Victorian Railways in the 1880s and 1890s The Twilight of the Developmental Railway: Victorian Railways from Federation to the 1920s The End of Domination: The Clapp Era (1920-1939) and the Transformation of Traffic From War to Peace: Victoria and the Beginnings of National Railway Planning, 1939-1970 The Struggle for Relevance: The Country Railway transformed in the Motor Age, 1970-2004
- ISBN13 9780522851342
- Publish Date 1 August 2007
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 4 December 2015
- Publish Country AU
- Imprint Melbourne University Press
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 352
- Language English