West Melbourne Gasworks Railway. In 1962, the works was upgraded to incorporate a catalytic oil gas facility, but this was shiort-lived, and in 1970 the works was closed down, and the remaining structures demolished by 1974. The works was gradually expanded between 1900 and 1910, eventually covering 8 hectares in an area now extending from Waterview Walk to the Yarra River, with the new Collins Street extension and Harbour Esplanade running through the site. West Melbourne Gasworks The West Melbourne Gasworks was a coal gasification plant in West Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Melbourne was settled in 1835, and by the early 1850s the gold-rushes
Melbourne Zoo Zoological Board of Victoria administers the Melbourne Zoo, as well as the Werribee Open Range Zoo which features herbivorous creatures in an open range setting; and Healesville Sanctuary on of bushland exhibiting Australian fauna. On 15 January 2010 Melbourne Zoo welcomed its first elephant calf. This is the second elephant calf born in Australia, the first being in Sydney in July 2009. Melbourne Zoo new seal enclosure has been completed and was opened in December 2009. Melbourne Zoo commemorated 150 years of operation in 2012 and this was celebrated in an Australian Zoos collector's edition of stamps released by Australia