On June 14, 1883, a momentous event took place on the border between New South Wales and Victoria. The opening of the rail link between Sydney and Melbourne a mere 95 years after the First Fleet’s arrival in 1788 at Port Jackson, so named by Captain Cook in 1770  but of course later to be more commonly known as Sydney Harbour. 

I’ve called it a mere 95 years because when Arthur Phillip stepped ashore, he and his fellow travellers entered a world where survival was problematic, to say the least.