Newport is a suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 7 km south-west from Melbourne's central business district. Its Local Government Area is the City of Hobsons Bay. At the 2006 Census, Newport had a population of 11,244.
Williamstown Junction opened as a Telegraph Office around April 1862 and as a Post Office around May 1869. It was renamed in 1881.
The Newport Railway Workshops play a key role in the history of the suburb, formerly the main...
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Newport is a suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 7 km south-west from Melbourne's central business district. Its Local Government Area is the City of Hobsons Bay. At the 2006 Census, Newport had a population of 11,244.
Williamstown Junction opened as a Telegraph Office around April 1862 and as a Post Office around May 1869. It was renamed in 1881.
The Newport Railway Workshops play a key role in the history of the suburb, formerly the main workshops of Victorian Railways. The workshops are south of the Newport railway station.
Newport Lakes Park is a flooded quarry surrounded by landscaped bushland and lawn, in the north of the suburb. Stone from the quarry, which operated from the early 1920s to the 1960s, was used in various building projects around the area of Williamstown.
Newport Power Station is another feature of the suburb, the smokestack of which remains one of the tallest towers in Melbourne at 183 metres.
Victoria University maintains a campus in Newport, which...
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