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The corridor is heavily trafficked by long-distance freight trains. As of 2008, [needs update] the rail corridor carried 81 per cent of land freight between the eastern states and Perth, up from 60 per cent in 1996–97; [3] and in November 2007, 3.46 billion gross tonne-kilometres of freight was carried, a record at the time. [4] [5]
Later, the train became known as the Trans-Australian or, colloquially, "The Trans". After the Sydney–Perth route was converted to standard gauge in 1970, the railway was no longer flanked at both ends by narrow-gauge lines and an all-through service, called the Indian Pacific, was started.
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Patronage of the Perth to Fremantle train line, which had initially been shut down in 1979 to prepare for the development of a highway on the site, has grown substantially between the 1980s and 2010, with current daily patronage levels for this single rail line (approximately 23,000 journeys per day [30]) coming close to the total patronage of ...
The Indian Pacific is a weekly experiential tourism-oriented passenger train service that runs in Australia's east–west rail corridor between Sydney, on the shore of the Pacific Ocean, and Perth, on the shore of the Indian Ocean – thus, like its counterpart in the north–south corridor, The Ghan, one of the few truly transcontinental trains in the world.
The new route featured the Swan View Tunnel, the first rail tunnel in Western Australia. [18] Suburban trains on the Eastern Railway were extended to Midland Junction when the Midland Railway Workshops opened in 1904/5. By 1906, suburban trains ran as far as Bellevue on the Eastern Railway and as far as Maddington on the South Western Railway. [15]
The adjacent stations are Wellard railway station towards Perth, and Warnbro railway station towards Mandurah. [3] [4] The station consists of two side platforms. The platforms are approximately 150 metres (490 ft) long, or long enough for a Transperth 6 car train – the longest trains used by Transperth. Platform one can be accessed through ...