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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.
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 Central Australia Railway extended from Port Augusta to Alice Springs. Work on the first section of this railway was commenced by the South Australian Railways in 1878. [1] Under South Australian ownership, the railway, known as the Great Northern Railway, [10] was extended in stages and reached Oodnadatta in 1891.
Including the mining railways, in 2015–16, there were 413.5 billion tonne kilometres of freight moved by rail. Overall railway freight in Australia is dominated by bulk freight, primarily iron ore and coal. In 2015–16, Australian railways carried over 1.34 billion tonnes of freight, 97 per cent of which were bulk movements.
Preserved GM2 at the National Railway Museum in July 2010 Two GM class on the Trans-Australian at Rawlinna in May 1986 GM43 at Mount Gambier while on broad gauge in April 1995 Aurizon GM43 locomotives GM22 and 42103 lead the AK cars from Ouyen to Yelta through Mildura. GM22, 48s35, 48s34, and G514 lead a grain train from Maldon NSW to Birchip ...
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.
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 ...