dd/mm/1910 Beaconsfield Railway Station

ID: 19065
Copyright: library owns image (image on public access)

Description: Beaconsfield was named after Benjamin Disraeli, the Earl of Beaconsfield, British Prime Minister. The story goes that he died in 1881 on the day a deputation waited on the Victorian Minister of Railways to have a station built at what is now Beaconsfield. Beaconsfield is on the Gippsland line of which the Oakleigh to Bunyip section of the line was opened in 1877.
Subject: railway stations

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