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| The Deepdene Dasher at Ashburton, c1900 |
I am pleased to advise that my latest free, on-line Pictorial Heritage
Research dissertation has now been published.
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| At Deepdene Station 1905 |
Titled “Melbourne’s Outer Circle Railway 1872 to 2014”, it describes the
financing, planning, design, construction, commissioning, operations ,
maintenance, and infrastructure of this steam era railway It was an 18 km line
linking Oakleigh and Fairfield. opening in 1890 and closing in 1895. Community
agitation brought about the reopening of part of the line in 1900, and was
eventually abandoned in 1943.
The project contains 36 Chapters, as text and graphics, including
photographs, maps, etchings, engravings, line drawings, and paintings. Each
station is described in detail, with platform diagrams, signalling arrangements,
track/passing layouts, sidings, overhead road bridges, and recent photos of the
sites of the original stations.
There were ten bridges and 13 level crossings
A special Chapter describes the popular Outer Circle Anniversary Rail
trail, which follows the alignment of most of the original route.
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| Sketches of construction activity, 1890 |
Many of the contemporary images in the project were taken along the
Railtrail during 2014.
The project may be viewed at http://bpadula.tripod.com/outercircle.
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