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
Western River, South Australia Western River, South Australia Western River is a locality in the Australian state of South Australia located on the north coast of Kangaroo Island overlooking Investigator Strait about south-west of the state capital of Adelaide and about west of the municipal seat of Kingscote. Its boundaries were created in March 2002 for the “long established name” which was derived from the river located within its boundaries. In 2011, a portion of the adjoining locality of Middle River was excised and added to Western River. A school operated within what is now the locality here between 1901 and 1903. Western River