The Melbourne & River Murray Railway: The 30th Dec.1858 contract between Cornish & Bruce, the railway construction company, and Benjamin Richardson, Thomas Stroud and Joseph Goodyer of Ravenswood, for the construction of 'the portion of a main line of Railway called the Melbourne and River Murray Railway between Melbourne and Sandhurst....' with seventeen pages of details of the project, the schedule of agreed fees for excavations, cuttings, digging of ditches, stripping and stacking soil and creating embankments. Signed and sealed by all parties, with an intended completion date of 14th September 1859.