Speaking of historical railway maps, here is an archive of
maps of the Victorian Railways network, by
decade. Fascinating; now I know that the Fitzroy line closed sometime in the
1980s, and the branch line to East Kew (which once linked Oakleigh to Fairfield or somesuch, around 100 years ago; not to be confused with the Kew one) was closed in the 1950s sometime. Though there is no trace of the rumoured railway
line which ran from Elsternwick to Oakleigh or somewhere like that.
(I have been interested in historical maps for some time; since I started
looking through a 1970s-vintage Melway street directory which had belonged to
my late stepfather, probably from back when he was a features editor at the
Herald. Unfortunately, this book has since been lost, some time before when
I became curious about the dismantled railway lines of Melbourne.)