Birrarung Marr, Melbourne area", prepared for the City of Melbourne, 1998 (unpublished). Georgina Whitehead, "Civilising the City: A History of Melbourne’s Public Gardens". State Library of Victoria, 1997. Birrarung Marr, Melbourne Birrarung Marr is an inner-city park between the central business district in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia and the Yarra River. It was opened in 2002. The name means 'river of mists' and 'river bank' in the Woiwurrung language of the Wurundjeri people, the Indigenous inhabitants at the time of European settlement of the Melbourne area. The 8 hectare (20 acre) park lies immediately to the south-east of the central business district, between Flinders
Albion railway station, Melbourne Albion railway station, Melbourne Albion railway station is located on the Sunbury line in Victoria, Australia. It serves the western Melbourne suburb of Albion, opening on 5 January 1860 as Albion & Darlington, and was renamed Albion on 24 March 1891. The Melbourne – Sydney standard gauge line passes to the north of the station, and along with the Albion – Jacana freight line, branches off north of the station. The Melbourne & Murray River Railway (now the Bendigo line) opened in 1859, running from Footscray to Sunbury. By the early 1860s, the line had been extended to Bendigo. A