The Melbourne rail network is a metropolitan suburban and freight rail system serving the city of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. The metropolitan rail network is centred around the Melbourne central
Flinders Street railway station, March 2021
Steam-hauled suburban train departing North Melbourne station for Sunshine, April 1913
The pre-1910 Flinders Street station building on Swanston Street
Connex train arriving at Camberwell station, June 2004
The Melbourne tramway network is a tramway system serving the city of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. The tramway network is centred around the Melbourne central business district and consists of appr
Railways in Melbourne
…the primary commuter and freight railway networks, Melbourne also features heritage railways such as Puffing Billy and has the world's largest urban tram network. On 7 September 1851, a public meeting called for the construction of Australia's first railway to link Melbourne and Sandridge (now known as Port…
E class trams on Bourke Street, December 2013
A tram car passes the Federal Coffee Palace at the south-west corner of Collins and King streets, circa 1890.
Cable tram (dummy and trailer) on Lonsdale Street, circa 1905
Melbourne's first cable tram service on 11 November 1885