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The Overland is an interstate passenger train service in Australia, travelling between the state capitals of Melbourne and Adelaide, a distance of 828 km (515 mi). It first ran in 1887 as the Adelaide Express, known by South Australians as the Melbourne Express. [1] It was given its current name in 1936.
The Western standard gauge railway line is a standard-gauge railway line in western Victoria, Australia.Completed in 1995, it forms part of the Melbourne–Adelaide rail corridor and serves as the principal interstate rail link between Victoria and the western states.
The Melbourne–Adelaide rail corridor consists of the 828-kilometre (514-mile) long 1435 mm (4 ft 8 + 1 ⁄ 2 in) standard-gauge main line between the Australian state capitals of Melbourne, Victoria and Adelaide, South Australia, and the lines immediately connected to it. [1]
Rail transport in the Australian state of Victoria is provided by a number of railway operators who operate over the government-owned railway lines. The network consists of 2,357 km of Victorian broad gauge (1,600 mm (5 ft 3 in)) lines, and 1,912 km of standard gauge (1,435 mm (4 ft 8 + 1 ⁄ 2 in)) freight and interstate lines; the latter increasing with gauge conversion of the former.
The network consists of 1435 mm (4 ft 8 + 1 ⁄ 2 in) standard gauge links to other states, the 1600 mm (5 ft 3 in) broad gauge suburban railways in Adelaide, a freight-only branch from Dry Creek to Port Adelaide and Pelican Point, a narrow-gauge gypsum haulage line on the Eyre Peninsula, and both copper–gold concentrate and coal on the ...
Southern Cross station the hub of regional rail passenger services The Victorian rail network. V/Line is the operator of regional rail services in the Australian state of Victoria. [1] The stations are located on 13 passenger train lines, which all operate from Southern Cross station in Melbourne. Stations listed in bold are terminus stations.
A train from the Seaford railway line travels over a viaduct spanning the Onkaparinga River in March 2017. In 2008, the State Government announced a plan to upgrade and electrify the Seaford line with the Federal Government also to provide funding. [2] In December 2009, Stage 1 of the Noarlunga line upgrade was completed between Adelaide and ...
The first through train between Adelaide and Melbourne – The Intercolonial Express – ran on 19 January 1887, and was the first intercapital rail journey in Australia without changing trains at a break-of-gauge station. A map of Adelaide's rail lines c.1970s. Most of the lines around Adelaide were built before 1900.