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Initially the Canberra-Sydney Xplorer trains were just two carriages, but were expanded to three carriages in 1995. [58] [59] From 23 April 1995, the X 2000 tilt train ran between Canberra and Sydney for a seven-week trial. Two daily services ran in addition to the three daily Xplorer services, with a journey time 45 minutes shorter.
The Very Fast Train (VFT) was a proposed high-speed railway between Sydney, Canberra and Melbourne in south-eastern Australia. Initially conceived by Dr Paul Wild of the CSIRO in 1984, the proposal was adopted by a private-sector joint venture in 1987, comprising Elders IXL, Kumagai Gumi, TNT and BHP.
An Xplorer on the current, non-HSR Sydney-Canberra service. In 1993, the Speedrail Consortium (a joint venture between Alstom and Leighton Contractors) made a proposal for a high-speed rail link between Sydney and Canberra. It was initially going to cost A$2.4 billion ($4.1 billion in 2013).
Terminated ex-Sydney Xplorer at Canberra station Waiting room. Canberra is the terminus for the New South Wales Xplorer service by NSW TrainLink from Sydney. It is also served by NSW TrainLink road coach services to Cootamundra, Bombala and Eden. [27] V/Line coach service to Bairnsdale also operates via the station. [28]
Additionally, a station in central Canberra is difficult to achieve on this alignment; it would most likely have to be located at Canberra Airport or Queanbeyan. [4] Canberra—Sydney. Inland – The railway would exit Canberra to the north or east on a new alignment, roughly following the Hume Highway corridor through Goulburn, Bowral and ...
The line between Joppa Junction Goulburn and Queanbeyan remains open, and is served by three daily NSW TrainLink Xplorer services in each direction operating between Sydney and Canberra. [19] The majority of freight traffic on the line are refuse trains for the Woodlawn Bioreactor at Tarago. [20] Fuel trains ran to Canberra until January 2009. [21]
The standardisation of time in Australia began in 1892, when surveyors from the six colonies in Australia met in Melbourne for the Intercolonial Conference of Surveyors. . The delegates accepted the recommendation of the 1884 International Meridian Conference to adopt Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) as the basis for standard t
The Canberra Express was an Australian passenger train operated by the NSW State Rail Authority between Sydney and Canberra via the main south line from May 1982 until January 1994. It was introduced in May 1982 being operated by DEB railcar sets. [1] In August 1983 it was converted to XPT operation and renamed the Canberra XPT.