William Murray Ross

William Murray Ross (1825–1904) was an entrepreneur best remembered for his failed "Rosstown Railway" in the south-eastern suburbs of Melbourne.

The railway was part of a larger "Rosstown Project", which included a sugar beet processing mill and a residential estate.

Parts of the rail line easement have been preserved as the Rosstown Railway Heritage Trail.

Three-fourths advanced of the cost of building large houses, and about one-half for cottages, repayable as in the case of the land.

For full particulars see plans and prospectuses, to be obtained from the principal auctioneers and estate agents, or at the offices of the Victorian Permanent Property Investment and Building Society, Collins- street east.Ross died in 1904.

The sugar beet processing mill built as part of "the Rosstown Project". [ 1 ]