The train to Ballarat departs Melbourne's Southern Cross Station |
Chinese temple under construction outside Melbourne along the train tracks |
Chinese temple outside of Melbourne along the rail line to Ballarat |
A taste of Kansas or Saskatchewan in southern Victoria |
Victorian farmland near Rockbank |
Orthodox Church under construction near Rockbank, VIC |
Crossing the Melton Reservoir on the railroad bridge |
Crossing the Melton Reservoir on the railroad bridge |
Crossing the Melton Reservoir on the railroad bridge |
Victoria by Rail |
Crossing Parwan Creek |
Around Maddingley |
Climbing the hills east of Ballarat |
Victorian farmland in December |
Bostock Reservoir |
Nearing Ballarat |
An abandoned steam locomotive, Ballarat |
Ballarat Station - VicLink |
1 hr 20 after departing Melbourne, welcome to Ballarat |
Ballarat Railway Station, 1862 |
Ballarat Transit City |
Provincial Hotel, Ballarat |
Lydiard Street - Ballarat |
Ballarat boomed during the Victorian gold rush starting in 1851 |
The Grand Hotel, Ballarat |
Lydiard Street - Ballarat's main street with preserved 19th C. architecture |
Sebastiaans - Lydiard Street North, Ballarat |
Bones Building (1886) and the Ballarat Fine Art Gallery (1884) |
Lydiard Street - Ballarat |
Lydiard Street - Ballarat |
Fine Art Public Gallery Association (Art Gallery of Ballarat) |
Old Colonists' Hall, Ballarat |
Advance Ballarat - Old Colonists' Hall |
Ballarat Mining Exchange and the University of Ballarat |
Ballarat Mining Exchange, 1888 |
University of Ballarat, Lydiard Street at Sturt Street |
Façade sculpture, Lydiard Street - Ballarat |
Catherine King M.P. - Federal Member for Ballarat |
University of Ballarat Arts Academy, Camp Street Campus |
Lydiard Street, Ballart |
Lydiard Street at Sturt Street, Ballart |
Former National Mutual Insurance (1905), sw corner of Sturt at Lydiard |
Ballarat Town Hall, Sturt Street |
Sturt Street, Ballarat |
Anglo-Boer War Memorial, Ballarat |
In Honour of Australia's Soldiers who fought in South Africa 1899-1902 |
Anglo-Boer War Memorial, Sturt Street, Ballarat |
Anglo-Boer War Memorial, Sturt Street, Ballarat |
In Memory of the Explorers Who Perished While Crossing the Australian Continent in the Year 1861 |
Mechanics' Institute, Sturt Street, Ballarat |
Statue of Robert Burns, Ballarat |
Statue of Robert Burns by Giovanni Udny, 1897 |
Victoria License Plate - Ballarat Eureka! |
Craig's Royal Hotel, Ballarat |
Her Majesty's Theatre, Ballarat |
Building in Ballarat dated 1881 |
Ballarat Parish Mission |
Ballarat Town Hall |
Ballarat Town Hall |
Ballarat Town Hall |
Ballarat Town Hall |
Ballarat Town Hall |
Queen Victoria Statue - Ballarat |
Easybudge Travel - Sturt Street, Ballarat |
University of Ballarat, Lydiard St |
University of Ballarat, Lydiard St |
University of Ballarat, Lydiard St |
Ballarat Mining Exchange, Lydiard St. |
Window reflection - Parliament of Victoria with the Ballarat Colonists' Hall |
Ballarat Mining Exchange, Lydiard St. |
Ballarat Mining Exchange, Lydiard St. |
Ballarat - Old Colonists Hall |
Victorian Lydiard Street - Ballarat |
Victorian Lydiard Street - Ballarat |
Fine Art Gallery, Ballarat |
Fine Art Gallery, Ballarat |
Bones Building and the Ballarat Fine Art Gallery, Lydiard Street |
The Grand Hotel & Reid's Palalce Coffee, Ballarat |
J.J. Goller & Co. - Established 1855, Ballarat |
Reid's Palace Coffee, a former 1880's temperance hotel, Ballarat |
Ballarat Station |
Ballarat Station |
Ballarat Station |
Ballarat Station |
VicLink commuter rail, Ballarat Station |
On the train back to Melbourne |
Victorian hills |
Victorian hills |
Victorian hills |
Victorian farmland |