Melbourne, Mount Alexander and Murray River Railway Company
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The Melbourne, Mount Alexander and Murray River Railway Company was a railway company in Victoria, Australia. It was established on 8 February 1853 to build a railway from Melbourne to Echuca on the Victorian-NSW border, as well as a branch railway to Williamstown, but struggled to make any progress. On 23 May 1856, the colonial Government took over the Company and it became part of the newly-established Railway Department, which was part of the Board of Land and Works, and which in 1859 became Victorian Railways. British engineer George Christian Darbyshire was made the first Engineer-in-Chief for the Railways Department, and supervised the design and construction works until his replacement by Thomas Higginbotham in 1860.
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