Author: MELBOURNE AND HOBSON'S BAY UNITED RAILWAY.
Title: Memorandum of Agreement made between the Directors of the Melbourne and Hobson's Bay United Railway Company and the Government for the purchase of the Company.
Description: First Edition; F'cap Folio; pp. 3; original Legislative Assembly printed paper, fine copy. Important document in the history of Victorian railways. Together with two other related papers "Melbourne and Hobson's Bay Railway Company's Extension Bill 1862, and Special Report upon the Melbourne & Hobson's Bay Railway Act Amendment Bill. 1862. Melbourne; John Ferres, Government Printer; 16th July 1878. The Melbourne and Hobson's Bay Railway Company was founded in 1853, to build a line from Melbourne to the port of Sandridge (now Port Melbourne) it was the first common-carrier railway to operate in Australia opening on 12 September 1854. In 1865 it acquired the St Kilda and Brighton Railway Company and the Melbourne and Suburban Railway Company. The combined group was then known as the Melbourne and Hobson's Bay United Railway Company. It is this combined company that was then taken over by the Victorian Government in 1878.

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