Six and a Half Inches From Destiny: The First Hundred Years of the Melbourne to Wodonga Railway 1873–1973 by Keith Turton

Book Description

Secondhand. Good condition. Ex library copy with no external stickers. Stamps and stickers on inside pages. Remnant date due slip and borrower card pocket on inside front cover. Marks on back cover. Wear to book corners and edges. Dust jacket has light creasing at edges and spine. Yellow mark on left edge of front cover. Dust jacket is now enclosed in protective covering. Body text and binding are still very good.

This book deals with the planning, construction, and the first hundred years of operations of the railway to Wondonga, together with its locomotives, stations, and the grand array of trains that plied its tracks. For eighty of its first hundred years, the Melbourne-Wondonga railway was the busiest and most important line in Victoria. (book flap)