Surveys conducted by the VR on lines not constructed to 30th June 1897 Line Albert Park to Elwood Alberton to Woodside via Yarram Alexandra branch to Alexandra Alexandra to Jamieson Allansford to Nirranda Allendale to Maryborough Allendale to Newstead Arcadia to Violet Town Avenel to Murchison Avenel to Strathbogie & Merton (part) Avoca to Bealiba Avoca to Rupanyup Avoca to St. Arnaud (part) Bacchus Marsh to Trentham and Holden Baddaginnie to Nalinga and Dookie Baddaginnie to Strathbogie and Merton (part) Bagshot to Cohuna Bairnsdale to Omeo Bairnsdale to Orbost Bairnsdale to Paynesville Ballan to Daylesford Ballarat Cattle Yards to Rokewood Ballarat to Daylesford Ballarat to Hamilton Balmattum to Strathbogie and Merton (part) Barker's Road to Doncaster Baxter's Flat to Nepean (part of) Bealiba to Charlton Beaufort to Mount Cole Beeac to Buninyong (part of) Beeac to Newtown Beech Forest to Wattle Hill and Princetown (NG) Beechworth Junction to Ovens Bridge Beechworth to Stanley Benalla to Dookie Benalla to Dueran and Mansfield Benalla to Hansen South and Moyhu Berwick and Beaconsfield to Gembrook
Amount 175.19.6 1963.7.6 1354.19.4 25.2.1 2171.2.9 5.7.8 594.0.9 200.8.5 552.13.5 1047.17.4 420.12.6 767.1.8 572.14.3 1173.14.5 157.14.6 495.9.3 559.14.8 3034.10.11 4057.5.9 363.0.6 557.2.11 1307.0.6 8.11.2 1046.13.0 272.16.4 161.14.6 357.18.10 483.17.1 11.11.9 515.19.5 5370.5.4 885.2.8 289.10.6 256.6.5 291.15.4 1515.12.1 395.15.8 1957.10.0
Appx milage 4¼ 15 4½ nil 17 ½ nil 22 22 ¾ 21 42 ¼ 22 ½ 60 ¾ 24 48 ¾ 18 ¼ 19 ¾ 64 ¼ 83 ¼ 58 6½ 15 ½ 33 nil 110 14 2¼ 25 38 ¼ nil 23 ½ 36 ¾ 36 ½ 19 ¼ 6½ 22 31 ½ 18 ¼ 31 ½
No of routes No of surveys 1 1 1 2 1 3 Inspection nil 1 2 Inspection 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 2 Inspection nil 1 1 Inspection nil 1 1 1 1 1 1 Inspection nil 1 1 1 3 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 2 2
Bethanga Road to Talgarno Birchip to Minapre Birregurra to Apollo Bay Birregurra to Lorne and Yaugher to Barramunga Bloomfield to McDonald's Track Boolara to Coal Mine Boolara to Stoney Creek Boort to Boga Boort to Echuca Boort to Kerang Branch line to Schoolhouse Lane Branch Surveys to Cunninghame from Bairnsdale-Orbost line Branxholme to Apsley Branxholme to Koroit Branxholme to Port Fairy (part) Briagolong to Orbost Bridgewater to Durham Ox (part of) Broadford to Flowerdale Broadford to Heathcote Bulleen Road to Templestowe Bungaree Junction to Newlyn Burrumbeet Siding and Bungaree Siding Camperdown to Lintons Canterbury to Doncaster Castlemaine Maldon and Newbridge (part) Castlemaine to Carisbrook via Maldon Cavendish to Balmoral Central Gippsland Line Charlton to Boort Cheltenham to Sandringham Clunes to Newstead (part) Clyde to Tyabb Coburg to Heidelberg and Lilydale Coburg to Kilmore Colac to Apollo Bay Colac to Beech Forest, including Forrest to Beech Forest (NG) Colac to Cape Otway Forest Colac to Deans Marsh Colac to Hamilton Coleraine to Apsley and South Australian Border
504.12.4 646.7.11 28.18.0 337.16.3 2874.12.11 4.0.0 1342.6.8 1193.5.8 632.7.0 19.13.0 110.1.6 1666.3.7 808.12.1 1047.0.2 368.8.8 3843.11.6 121.7.9 1.2.6 43.9.10 3.17.0 221.13.8 11.1.0 820.10.10 761.10.6 397.2.9 339.7.11 312.18.2 63.2.6 401.9.11 13.11.3 342.9.7 13.16.6 3.10.0 17.15.4 3565.10.7 4950.9.4 51.8.9 0.10.0 2621.10.3 1310.4.2
12 ¼ 33 nil 5 13 ¼ nil 25 ¼ 49 ¾ 62 ¾ nil 6 37 80 45 28 ¾ 104 14 ¾ nil nil nil 10 nil 47 ½ 5½ 11 15 25 nil 24 ¼ 3 13 ¼ nil nil nil 54 51 ¾ nil nil 100 73 ½
1 1 Inspection
1 1 nil
1 1 Inspection
2 2 nil
1 2 1 Inspection
1 2 1 nil
1 1 1 1 1 1 1 Inspection Inspection Inspection
1 1 1 1 1 1 1 nil nil nil
1 Inspection
1 nil
1 1 1 1 1 Inspection
1 1 1 1 1 nil
1 1 1 Inspection Inspection Inspection
1 1 1 nil nil nil
1 1 Inspection Inspection
1 3 nil nil
1 1
1 1
Coleraine to Casterton Condah to Casterton Cope Cope to East Charlton Cope Cope to Wycheproof Cranbourne to Somerville Cranbourne to Tyabb Croydon to Beenak and Gembrook Croydon to Warburton Cunninghame to Orbost (NG) Curdies River to Port Campbell Dandenong to Fern Tree Gully Dandenong to Gembrook (part) Dandenong to Mordialloc, Mentone and Cheltenham Dandenong to Tunstall Dawson and Heyfield to Glenmaggie Daylesford to Guildford Diggers' Rest to Bullengarook Donald to Charlton Donald to Mildura via Wentworth (part) Donald to Warracknabeal Donald to Wycheproof Donnybrook to Goldie Dooen to Willenabrina Dookie to Devenish Dookie to Euroa Dookie to Goorambat Dookie to Springs, via Ovens Bridge Dookie to St. James (part) Drouin to Brandy Creek Drouin to Poowong and Woolamai Dry Creek to Kilmore Drysdale to Portarlington Dunolly to Bradford East Gippsland Trial Lines Ellerslie to Branxholme Elmore to Corop Elmore to Kerang Elphinstone to Heathcote Elsternwick to Oakleigh Eltham to Christmas Hills
5.7.9 17.6.0 8.15.4 187.0.7 6.16.8 351.8.3 910.18.9 1955.11.8 1594.5.11 1379.17.1 394.11.6 926.0.4 437.1.10 29.13.4 392.19.0 810.18.11 493.11.9 359.4.10 1130.10.7 208.14.10 10.9.0 727.8.11 333.6.4 115.9.4 11.7.9 208.7.0 594.16.7 84.12.6 35.8.9 2927.12.9 630.0.2 212.11.1 459.9.11 18.5.0 22.10.1 92.7.3 640.0.5 17.15.0 15.2.2 1123.18.1
nil nil nil 30 nil 8½ 21 ¾ 26 ½ 35 10 ¼ 11 ½ 18 ¼ 21 ½ nil 15 ¾ 17 ½ 19 ¼ 23 120 22 ½ nil 24 ¼ 42 ¾ 12 nil 15 ¼ 42 ½ 9¾ 4 35 ¼ 6 7½ 20 ½ nil nil 9¾ 68 nil nil 11 ½
Inspection Inspection Inspection
nil nil nil 1
Inspection
1 nil
1 1 1 1 1 1 1 3 Inspection
1 1 2 1 2 1 1 3 nil
1 1 1 1 1 1 Inspection
1 1 1 1 1 1 nil
1 2 1 Inspection
1 2 1 nil
1 1 1 1 1 1 2 1 Inspection Inspection
1 1 1 1 1 1 2 1 nil nil
1 1 Inspection Inspection
1 1 nil nil
2
2
Epping to Beveridge (part) Epping to Wallan Epsom Road to Buckley Street Essendon to Bulla Euroa to Arcadia via Miepoll Fern Tree Gully to Gembrook (narrow gauge) Fernbank to Dargo (part) Fernbank to McLennan's Straits Flemington Bridge to Pascoe Vale Flynn's Creek to Alberton (part) Frankston Cemetery Line Gavoc to Nirranda (part) Geelong to Barwon Heads and Lorne Gerang Gerung to Netherby (part) Glenferrie to Upper Kew Glenloth to Boga (Part) Glenorchy to St. Arnaud (part of) Glenrowan to Hedi and Extension Glenrowan to Oxley Goornong to Albury Goornong to Cohuna (part) Goroke to Edenhope Griffith's Point to Kilcunda Hamilton to Apsley (Coleraine to Henty) Hamilton to Casterton Hamilton to McArthur Hartwell and Glen Iris to Black Flats, inspection to Gembrook Hastings to Mornington (part) Havelock to Sandhurst Healesville to Alexandra Heathcote to Corop Heathcote to Elmore Heathcote to Nagambie Heathcote to Rushworth Heidelberg to Eltham Heidelberg to Kerrisdale Heidelberg to Queenstown (part) Heidelberg to Templestowe Heidelberg to Whittlesea Heywood to Dartmoor
93.16.10 229.4.6 2.7.5 847.5.10 108.17.2 1679.7.11 78.17.6 160.16.2 826.10.8 270.3.2 330.16.11 79.9.1 1448.7.0 527.16.10 63.9.10 72.10.2 122.18.5 2724.17.11 191.18.0 4328.16.11 104.14.5 322.9.7 34.14.10 198.7.1 1201.5.10 259.1.3 278.19.2 302.14.3 24.10.0 3936.14.0 608.16.11 310.10.0 556.0.4 643.14.8 3553.18.9 2617.8.3 593.9.3 20.19.6 226.5.11 454.11.3
5 16 ¾ nil 10 ¼ 11 ¼ 21 ½ 5¼ 16 ½ 3½ 6¾ 2½ 14 ¾ 44 ¾ 17 ¼ 1 6½ 17 ½ 28 ½ 12 ¼ 152 10 ¾ 25 ¾ nil 11 ½ 40 14 ¼ 10 6½ nil 40 26 ¼ 30 ½ 23 ¼ 29 ¼ 8¾ 56 6 2½ 8¾ 26
1 1 Inspection
1 1 nil
1 1 1 1 1 1
2 1 2 1 1 2
1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1
1 1 1 1 1 1 1 2 1 1 1 1
Inspection
nil 1 1 1 1 1
Inspection
1 1 1 1 1 nil
1 2 1 1 2 1 1 1 1 1 1
1 2 1 1 2 2 1 1 1 1 1
Hopetoun to Wentworth and Mildura (part) Horsham to Hamilton Huntly to Cohuna (part) Huon-lane to Dederang via Freeburg Huon-lane to Towong Inglewood to Durham Ox Ingliston to Bullarto Jeparit to Mildura and Wentworth Jumbunna to Mine Jung Jung to Dimboola Keilor to Daylesford Kensington to Brunswick and Coburg Kerang to Junction of Murray & Darling Rivers Kew to Doncaster and Warrandyte Kew to Healesville Kew to Outer Circle Kew to Templestowe Kilcunda to Cape Patterson Korumburra to Andersons Inlet Kyneton to Heathcote Laanecoorie to Ravenswood Lancefield to Carlsruhe (part) Lancefield to Heathcote Lancefield to Woodend Lancefield-Road to Heathcote Lang Lang to San Remo Lara to Ballan Larpent to Beeac Larpent to Scott's Creek Leigh-Road to Chatsworth Leigh-Road to Colac Lilydale to Neerim via Little Yarra Lilydale to Warburton (part) Lilydale to Yarra Junction (narrow gauge) Lindenow to Dargo (part) Lintons to Glenthompson Llanelly to Marong Longford to Dutson Longwarry to Labertouche and Jindivick Longwood to Dookie
1585.13.1 1405.16.11 373.19.2 1878.0.10 1342.16.5 1089.15.2 1142.17.4 3575.11.2 34.7.4 700.2.5 46.3.3 242.1.4 21.4.1 350.11.2 10.3.10 119.7.1 204.2.3 72.10.10 549.0.10 25.7.3 13.0.2 190.4.4 2760.0.10 768.6.7 26.14.4 39.0.0 1030.7.7 160.3.11 676.16.11 18.10.0 15.0.0 22.17.0 500.3.7 2062.8.0 1215.11.8 1382.11.3 785.14.6 206.6.5 399.6.0 558.4.1
86 75 ¼ 23 ¼ 38 ½ 80 33 ½ 23 ½ 179 ½ nil 23 nil 4½ nil 5 nil 1 4½ nil 18 ¾ nil nil 4 32 14 ¼ nil nil 35 ¼ 15 ¾ 27 ½ nil nil nil 16 ½ 19 ½ 24 ¾ 60 14 9 10 ¾ 39 ¼
1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 Siding
1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 nil
1 Inspection
1 nil
1 Inspection
1 nil
1 Inspection
1 nil
1 1 Inspection
1 1 nil
1 Inspection Inspection
1 nil nil
1 1 1 Inspection Inspection
1 2 1 nil nil
1 1 1 Inspection Inspection Inspection
2 1 1 nil nil nil
3 3 2 1 1 1 1 1
3 1 1 1 1 1 1 1
Longwood to Murchison Macedon to Bullengarook (part) Malmsbury to Daylesford Mansfield to Jamieson Marma to Wycheproof Maryborough to Daylesford Meeniyan to Lower Tarwin Melbourne to Daylesford via Bacchus Marsh Merton to Stradbrook Mirbo North to Leongatha Moe to Walhalla (via alt routes from Morwell, Toongabbie, Traralgon, Glengarry & Yarragon) Monomeith to McDonald's Track Montague-Road via Jetty and Timber Jetty to Port Melbourne Montgomery to Paynesville Mooroopna to St. Germains Mornington to Nepean Mortlake to Maroona Mortlake to Penshurst Morwell to Morwell Coal Co Mine Mount Moriac to Lorne and Apollo Bay Nar Nar Goon to Gembrook Nathalia to Barmah Nathalia to Kyabram Nathalia to Nalinga Nathalia to Tongala Natimuk to Minimay and South Australian Border Neerim South to Neerim North Nepean to Flinders and Bittern Newmarket to Buckley Street and Keilor Road Nhill to Broughton (partial) Noradjuha to Fulham and Casterton North Melbourne via Wallan, Heathcote and Bridgewater to Kerang Nowa Nowa to NSW Border via Buchan Nowa Nowa to Omeo Numurkah to Tungamah Nyora to Kilcunda (partial) Nyora to Thorpdale Oakleigh to Fern Tree Gully Oakleigh to Gembrook Olga Plains to Wychitella
12.16.5 157.14.0 682.0.10 36.11.4 924.15.15 908.9.3 256.12.9 12.6.8 17.3.6 1910.8.0 2435.19.8 1487.2.8 352.9.7 778.17.8 150.1.3 948.12.6 1054.3.11 4.9.6 32.19.6 16.13.11 9.7.3 152.15.10 187.1.11 4.15.2 406.7.8 69.4.11 1421.1.2 763.3.11 1322.12.11 353.15.0 2580.13.0 42.18.6 89.8.6 67.3.0 5.5.0 214.3.11 41.16.2 5.15.0 10.0.0 6.5.0
nil 5½ 18 nil 60 37 ½ 11 ¾ nil nil 16 ½ 84 ¾ 24 ¾ 5½ 41 ¾ 20 30 45 ¼ nil nil nil nil 15 ¼ 21 ½ nil 21 ¼ nil 8½ 29 ¾ 4½ 19 ½ 73 ¼ nil nil nil nil 10 ½ nil nil nil nil
Inspection
nil 1 1
Inspection
1 1 nil
1 1 1 Inspection Inspection
1 1 1 nil nil
1 6 3 1 1 1 2 1 Inspection Siding Inspection Inspection
2 6 3 1 1 1 2 1 nil nil nil nil
1 1 Inspection
1 1 nil
1 Inspection
1 nil
3 1 2 2 1 Inspection Inspection Inspection Inspection
1 1 1 1 1 nil nil nil nil
1 Inspection Inspection Inspection Inspection
1 nil nil nil nil
Orbost to Bendoc and Delegete Orbost to Mallacoota Inlet, Coast and Inland Routes Outtrim Extension Pakenham to Gembrook (part) Port Melbourne to Newport (part) Port Melbourne to Town Pier Portland to Belfast Portland to Casterton Princes Bridge to Northcote & Princes Bridge to Collingwood, inc Richmond to Alphington Quambatook to Waitchie Queensferry to Jeetho Richmond to Coburg Richmond to Yan Yean (part) Rosedale to Alberton and Port Albert Rosstown Railway Royal Park to Oakleigh Rupanyup to Cope Cope Rupanyup to Donald (including Rupanyup to Banyena, part survey of) Rushworth to Kyabram Rushworth to Corop and Rochester Rochester to Tandara and Cohuna (part) Romsey to Woodend (part) Redesdale to Strathfieldsaye (part) Redesdale to Knowsley Sale to Bairnsdale (part of) Sale to Maffra Sale to Alberton Sea Lake to Wentworth and Mildura (part) Seymour to Strathbogie and Kobyboyn (part) Seymour to Heathcote Seymour to Yea and Alexandra St. Arnaud to Wycheproof St. Arnaud to Rupanyup (part) Shepparton to Murray (part) St. Kilda to Elwood and Brighton Stawell to St. Arnaud (part) Stawell to Donald Stratford to Briagolong Stratford to Paynesville (part) Strathmerton to Tocumwal
3769.7.6 4134.11.2 49.15.11 302.18.9 11.17.0 20.8.4 513.0.0 641.3.10 8310.9.0 1041.0.10 337.15.3 379.16.0 159.16.11 3212.11.3 153.5.11 958.5.4 371.8.9 455.16.5 238.11.9 251.18.3 207.11.6 151.18.7 373.17.9 9.17.9 785.8.0 39.17.9 1487.17.8 1828.12.3 529.8.10 1003.0.1 39.17.9 604.15.9 676.8.0 413.11.2 3889.14.2 400.2.5 18.14.6 179.13.9 77.6.8 190.14.11
80 147 ½ 1½ 10 ½ 1 ½ 30 ½ 56 5 38 15 ¾ 8½ 4½ 45 ½ nil 13 25 ½ 19 ½ 20 ½ 24 ¾ 23 8¾ 15 ¼ nil 15 nil 49 ¼ 110 27 ½ 26 ¼ nil 32 20 ½ 36 5¼ 17 ½ nil 8½ 6 8½
Inspection
Inspection Inspection
Inspection
Inspection
1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 2 Multiple 1 1 1 1 1 nil 1 2 2 1 1 1 1 1 nil 1 nil 2 2 1 1 nil 1 2 1 2 1 nil 1 1 1
1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 2 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 2 1 1 1 1 1 1
Swan Hill to Wentworth and Mildura (part of) Somerville to Nepean and Flinders (part of) St. James to Ovens Bridge Sandringham to Cheltenham Sandhurst to Green Hills and Taradale Strathfieldsaye to Taradale Stony Creek to North-road, Williamstown Salisbury to Netherby (part) Shelbourne to Llanelly and Arnold's Bridge Tarrawingee to Bright Terang to Apsley Terang to Brucknell Traralgon to Alberton (part) Traralgon to Gormandale, Calignee and Carrajung (narrow gauge) Thorpdale to Hazeldean Tungamah to Ovens Bridge (part of) Talbot to Daylesford Tallangatta to Mitta Mitta Tallangatta to Towong Tallarook to Moranding and Glenaroua Tunstall to Dandenong Templestowe to Eltham Timboon to Port Campbell and inspection to Allansford Violet Town to Strathbogie and Merton Wedderburn to Coonooer and St. Arnaud Wangaratta to Mansfield Wangaratta to Whitfield (narrow gauge) Warrnambool to Hamilton Warrnambool to Mortlake Warragul to Welshpool Warragul to Leongatha and Warragul to Korumburra (including inspection) Werribee to Bacchus Marsh Woodend to Seymour Winchelsea to Race-course Line Winchelsea to Lorne Warranook Tramway Waubra to Avoca Waubra to Amphitheatre Wycheproof to Wirrumbirchip Wycheproof to Ninyeunook
3649.18.8 249.11.10 237.18.4 237.9.0 481.19.2 479.5.9 15.6.0 238.19.2 1805.0.4 2.14.2 82.4.10 261.12.9 3337.7.4 1109.15.5 998.6.1 234.18.11 379.10.11 1349.11.1 1736.14.9 419.2.0 19.8.4 11.16.0 387.19.4 933.18.10 819.14.9 1897.19.2 923.1.1 986.6.6 117.1.2 1434.7.8 3427.1.2 1038.1.7 541.2.1 35.18.6 47.2.4 2.8.0 1660.7.7 278.12.9 174.11.5 21.6.8
171 ½ 9 25 ¾ 3 23 ¾ 25 ¾ unknown 13 18 nil nil 13 ¼ 18 ¼ 14 ¾ 16 ¾ 17 ½ 15 ½ 35 57 14 ¼ nil nil 10 ¼ 28 ½ 26 ½ 66 ¾ 30 ½ 50 28 ¼ 59 49 ¾ 20 42 1¼ nil nil 23 ¾ 11 ¼ 19 nil
2 1 1 1 1 1 unknown
2 1 1 1 1 1 unknown
1 2 Inspection Inspection
1 1 nil nil
1 2 2 1 1 2 1 1 2 Inspection Inspection
1 1 2 1 1 1 1 1 1 nil nil
1 1 1 2 1 1 1 1 2 1 1 1 Inspection Inspection
1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 2 1 1 1 nil nil
1 1 1 Inspection
1 1 1 nil
Warracknabeal to Broughton Whittlesea to Kerrisdale (part) Whittlesea to Wallan Welshpool to Welshpool Jetty Welshpool to Yinnar (part) Wendouree to Miners' Rest Wannon to Balmoral (part) Yackandandah to Wodonga Yackandandah to Dederang Yarram to Yinnar Yarragon to Allambee Yarra Glen to Yea Yaugher to Barramunga Proposed VR Tramway to Exhbition Other surveys not documented or allocated Totals
523 15.3 602.13.5 180.11.3 181.17.6 2144.0.0 110.1.0 328.0.3 372.16.3 113.15.11 2716.7.11 88.5.4 905.17.3 19.9.0 123.14.9 18994.9.0 264426.7.2
61 ¼ 14 ¼ 10 ¼ 3 22 5¾ 21 ½ 16 ¾ 21 ¼ 36 ½ 4¼ 33 ½ nil 1 401 7195 ¾
1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 Inspection
1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 nil
1 unknown
1 unknown
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