St Kilda & Brighton Railway Company, share certificate issued to Henry Austin, dated September 1859 and with the seal of the company. Printed by Sands & Kenny., The St Kilda & Brighton Railway Company opened a line from St Kilda in Melbourne, to Bay Street (now North Brighton) in 1859 and Beach (now Brighton Beach) in 1861. The St Kilda & Brighton Railway Company and the Melbourne & Suburban Railway Company were taken over by the Melbourne & Hobson's Bay Railway Company in 1865. The combined company, known as the Melbourne & Hobsons Bay United Railway Company, was taken over by the Government of Victoria in 1878 and it became part of the Victorian Railways.