At the end of the 1880s unsuccessful attempts were made for Elsternwick to become administratively independent.

Established in the 1880s Ridley Road Market is opposite Dalston Kingsland railway station.

In the advent of the railway in the 1880s, Plainville became a bustling community on the prairie.

The impetus for the town was the Quincy, Missouri & Pacific railway, which laid tracks close by in the early 1880s.

The railway caused the town to boom by the 1880s.

* The Eastern Railway first traversed the Darling Scarp in the 1880s along its first route through Greenmount ( where three of the above quarries were later able to use the railway ).

The arrival of the railway in the 1880s led to the expansion of the original village, which became increasingly suburbanised during the 20th century.

Initially this development was as a consequence of the extension of the railway to the town in the 1880s, subsequently the promotion of Metroland during the 1920s and the electrification of the Metropolitan Line in the 1960s.

In 1875 a local newspaper described the railway station as a large dog's house of the nastiest and draughtiest kind but a series of works improved this part of the town during the 1880s.

Banff was first settled in the 1880s, after the transcontinental railway was built through the Bow Valley.

Nowy Sącz rose to a new prominence in the 19th century when the Austrian authorities built a railway connecting it with Vienna ( 1880s ).

The arrival of the railway to Chesham during the 1880s enabled travel to London and other conurbations.

The arrival of the railway to Chesham during the 1880s, the relative closeness to London and other conurbations and improvement to the road networks and public transport resulted in work being sought from further afield.

Development in the region was significantly spurred by the development of a railway link between Ottawa and Montreal in the early 1880s.

The current design of a cane handle spliced into a willow blade was the invention in the 1880s of Charles Richardson, a pupil of Brunel and the first chief engineer of the Severn railway tunnel.

The variety of villas, semi-detached houses and terraces in Leopold, Spencers, Victoria, Albany and Princess Roads — built in the 1880s just north of the railway line — typify this.

By the late 1880s the LB & SCR had developed the largest suburban network of any British railway with 68 route miles in the London suburbs in addition to its main lines, in three routes radiating between London Bridge and Victoria.

However, during the 1880s the railway produced elaborate decorated architecture of many of its country stations, notably on the Bluebell and Cuckoo Lines.

The railway line was constructed in the 1880s and development followed.

In the beginning ( by the 1880s to 1920s ), the success of choro came from informal groups of friends ( principally workers of postal / telegraphic service and railway ) which played in parties, pubs ( botecos ), streets, home balls ( forrobodós ), and also the large success of musical scores of Ernesto Nazareth, Chiquinha Gonzaga and others pianists, published by print houses.

When the Mornington and Stony Point railway lines opened in the late 1880s, the railway station near the Military Camp (... now a Flora and Fauna Reserve ) was named Langwarrin.

A pier was completed in 1857 and, between the 1850s and the arrival of the Melbourne railway in 1880s, the area developed as a small fishing community.

It was at Baxter's Flat that the railway to Mornington and Stony Point ( built in the late 1880s ) separated.

Expansion continued in the late 1880s and 1890s, aided by the construction of the railway line and the establishment of many orchards.

The rural scenery attracted artists during the 1880s, due to the absence of public utilities or a railway ( until 1888 ), causing houses to be vacant, and available at low rents.

For a brief period in the 1880s it served as a coaling station for steamships transiting the Indian Ocean from the Suez Canal to Australia.

Schultz purchased a large tract of land there during the 1880s where he built a residence for his family and donated land to be used for a train station with the condition that the area be known as " Murray Hill ".

In the 1870s and 1880s, the city began to grow, especially after the Louisville and Nashville Railroad built a station and line into the town around 1865.

When the Northern Pacific Railroad was surveyed and built in the early 1880s, a station called " Clermont " was supposedly built 21 miles from Billings, just across the tracks from present-day Worden.

A railroad sign posted in the 1880s labeled the station as " Bay Head ," and the name stuck when the borough was incorporated in 1886.

* Richard Warren Sears, founder of Sears, Roebuck, and Co, began his retail sales career by selling unclaimed watches while serving as a station agent for the railroad in Wolsey in the early 1880s.

During the early 1880s the station was enlarged.

The train shed roof which is 105 metres wide between platforms 1 and 12, has four spans, two spans 185 metres in length over the eastern part of the station date from the 1860s while the other two at the western side measuring 150 metres long were built in the early 1880s.

In the 1880s, the bay was coveted by France, which desired it as a coaling station for steamships.

The mainline station is still covered by the vast iron and glass roofs dating from the 1880s.

Among points of interest are the 19th-century rail station, the Palace of August Schmelzer ( 1880s ), and neogothic Church of St. Stanislaus ( 1908 – 1936 ).

In the 1880s, it was proposed that Spencer Street station be removed in order to facilitate the westward expansion of the city, however the plan was subsequently rejected.

A new station building was constructed which replaced the 1880s iron sheds and a new main platform was built.

In the 1880s the main line was re-routed to the east to allow for expansion and the current station site has been in use since.

In 1863, the Anglo American Telegraph Company set up a repeater station which was eventually taken over by the Reid Newfoundland Railway Company in the late 1880s when the Newfoundland Railway was constructed through the area and a station was built.

Two people play tennis in Franklin Park, 1906. In the 1880s, the calf pasture on Columbia Point was used as a Boston sewer line and pumping station.

By the late 1880s the station was once again congested due to the growth of traffic on the main lines, the expansion of the suburban network in South London and the new line from Croydon to Oxted.

Despite this, an extension of New Street station was required in the 1880s so that trains no longer needed to use Camp Hill Goods station which opened in 1840.

In the 1880s the area was virtually uninhabited country, with the station opening and associated extension of steam operated suburban services to Broadmeadows being driven by the ' Land Boom ' in Melbourne of the period and corrupt politicians.