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The average distance run per road day was 54.73 km; there were five rest days taken. The average distance including rest days was 51 km for the 74 days. This has been declared as a new Melbourne-to-Darwin Trans-Australian record by Phil Essam, former Australian ultra-running vice-president, historian, statistician and author.
After leaving Perth and crossing the Nullarbor, she travelled south from Port Augusta to Adelaide, along the coast through Mount Gambier to Melbourne, then up the Princes Highway through Eden to Sydney. The total distance of this route, taken from road maps and route markers, is 4895 km; with an additional 170 km of additional distance on side ...
The corridor is heavily trafficked by long-distance freight trains. As of 2008 [update] , [ 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.
A good run for the 14,750 miles (23,740 km) from Sydney to Plymouth was around 100 days. Cutty Sark made it in 84 days and Thermopylae in 77 days. [12] In 1854–1855, Lightning made the longer passage from Melbourne to Liverpool in 65 days, completing a circumnavigation of the world in 5 months, 9 days, which included 20 days spent in port. [13]
Todd had built South Australia's first telegraph line and extended it to Melbourne. [7] The contract stipulated a total cost of no more than £128,000 and two years' construction time. [ 7 ] He divided the route into three sections, each of 600 miles (970 km): northern and southern sections to be handled by private contractors, and a central ...
Melbourne to Mildura – Calder Highway; Sydney to Dubbo – Great Western and Mitchell Highways; Sydney to Wollongong – Princes Motorway and Princes Highway; Melbourne to Geelong – Princes Highway; some urban links in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Perth and Adelaide, connecting the long distance links to each other and to ports and airports.
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.
In mid 2024, Aurizon saw two new ACD class locomotives enter service, ACD6056 and ACD6057. ACD6058 and ACD6059 are soon to follow, with ACD6060-ACD6075 later. They have been used on Aurizon’s intermodal services between Perth and Melbourne, Melbourne and Brisbane and Sydney and Perth. All are expected in service during 2025.