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The Trans-Australian proceeding from Port Pirie Junction to Port Augusta and Western Australia in 1938, soon after the Trans-Australian Railway was extended to Port Pirie In 1986 the Trans-Australian at Rawlinna, WA is bound for Port Pirie. It would be another 18 years before all mainland state capitals were connected by standard gauge tracks.
A wooden station building at Woocalla. Its design was common to almost 50 buildings placed at localities along the Trans-Australian Railway. When the Trans-Australian Railway was completed in 1917 from Kalgoorlie to Port Augusta, about 50 settlements of various sizes were established along the line, from which maintenance workers kept the track in operational condition.
The train commenced operating between Port Augusta and Kalgoorlie in 1917 [1] [2] following the completion of the Trans-Australian Railway. [3] It was extended to Port Pirie in 1937 following the conversion of this line to standard gauge. [4] Initially the train was hauled by G class locomotives and from 1938 by C class locomotives. [4]
The BOM reported varied weekly rainfall across northern and eastern Australia. Most areas received 2-4 inches, with up to 8 inches in parts of Queensland, the Northern Territory and Western Australia.
1917 – Standard gauge Trans-Australian Railway completed between Kalgoorlie and Port Augusta; 1919 – Railways of New South Wales and South Australia meet at Broken Hill with break-of-gauge; 1919 – First electric suburban trains run in Melbourne; 1924 – Final section of North Coast line opens, linking Cairns to the rest of the Australian ...
In the latter year, the Commonwealth Railways extended its standard gauge Trans-Australian Railway line from Port Augusta south to Port Pirie. [5] In 1980, the Federal and State Governments entered an agreement to convert the line from Adelaide to standard gauge, albeit altered to meet the Trans-Australian Railway at Crystal Brook. [6]
Forrest is a former small railway settlement and stopping place on the Nullarbor Plain, 85 kilometres (53 miles) west of the Western Australia / South Australia state border, established in 1916 during construction of the Trans-Australian Railway. It is on the part of the railway that is the longest – at 478.193 kilometres (297.135 miles ...
By the end of World War II, the Commonwealth Railways were operating a diverse, worn-out collection of rolling stock on their 1067 mm (3 ft 6 in) narrow-gauge Central Australia Railway and North Australia Railway, and on their 1435 mm (4 ft 8 + 1 ⁄ 2 in) standard-gauge Trans-Australian Railway. Steam locomotives hauled both freight and ...