The Outer Circle: Melbourne's Forgotten Railway
MovieTitle | The Outer Circle: Melbourne's Forgotten Railway |
User score | 8.5 |
Release date | Dec 12, 2014 |
Genre | Documentary |
Director | Andrew McColm |
Production country | Australia |
Production companies | Evolving Communications and Shack West |
Run time | 49 min. |
In the 1870s Victorian politicians debated the virtues of constructing a 20km-long railway through Melbourne's east, simply to circumvent a privately-owned railway from South Yarra to Flinders Street Station. By 1878 the private railway had been purchased by the Victorian Government and there was no longer a need to build the orbital railway. But greedy politicians pushed legislation through parliament, authorising the construction of the railway through their own private land holdings. This is the story of Melbourne's Outer Circle Railway.