The St Kilda and Brighton Railway Company was a railway company in

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. The company opened a line from

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(via an elevated loop) in

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to Bay Street (now North Brighton) in 1859 and Beach (now

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) in 1861. In November 1853, a bill was introduced in the

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for incorporation of a company to be called the "Melbourne, St. Kilda and Brighton Railway Company". Then, in December 1855, it was announced that another bill would be presented to Parliament to incorporate the "St. Kilda and Brighton Railway Company".

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was chairman of directors of the company. The St Kilda and Brighton Railway Company and the more extensive Melbourne (and Suburban) Railway Company, with lines to Prahran and Hawthorn, were taken over by the

Melbourne and Hobson's Bay Railway Company The Melbourne and Hobson's Bay Railway Company was a railway company in Victoria, Australia. The company was incorporated on 20 January 1853 to build the line from Melbourne to the port of Sandridge, now Port Melbourne. The proposal met ...

in 1864. The combined company, known as the Melbourne and Hobsons Bay United Railway Company, was taken over by the

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in 1878 and the lines became part of the

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Rolling stock

Locomotives

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