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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]
This is a route-map template for the Melbourne–Adelaide rail corridor, a railway in Australia.. For a key to symbols, see {{railway line legend}}.; For information on using this template, see Template:Routemap.
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.
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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.
1854 – Victoria – First steam powered railway from Melbourne to Sandridge (Port Melbourne). 1855 – New South Wales – standard gauge steam powered railway from Sydney to Parramatta opened. 1856 – South Australia – broad gauge Adelaide to Port Adelaide railway opened
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.
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 ...