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Great Australian Railway Journeys is a BBC Two documentary series produced by Boundless and presented by Michael Portillo. [1] Broadcast
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.
Dumb Ways to Die is an Australian public awareness campaign video and media franchise made by Metro Trains in Melbourne, Victoria to promote railway safety.The original cartoon public service announcement for the awareness campaign went viral on social media after it was released on the internet in November 2012, amassing over 320 million views on YouTube.
2 Commonwealth Railways/Australia National/National Rail. 3 South Australian Railways. Toggle South Australian Railways subsection. 3.1 Diesel-electric.
In October 2019, the train featured in BBC Two's episode one of Michael Portillo's Great Australian Railway Journeys. [47] The Ghan is the setting of Benjamin Stevenson's 2023 novel, Everyone on this train is a suspect, in which a group of crime writers attempt to solve a murder on board the train. [48]
The Trans-Australian Railway, opened in 1917, runs from Port Augusta in South Australia to Kalgoorlie in Western Australia, crossing the Nullarbor Plain in the process. As the only rail freight corridor between Western Australia and the eastern states , the line is economically and strategically important.
The Overland Railway. Australian Railway Historical Society NSW Div. St James. 1992. Callaghan W.H. 'Railways Rather than Roads'. Australian Railway History. September 2006 et seq. Castle B.J. 'The Balhannah–Mount Pleasant branch line'. Australian Railway Historical Society Bulletin p.316. February 1964. Collins N. The jetties of South Australia.
In 2002, most were sold to Silverton Rail and taken to Broken Hill then sold again in February 2006 to Allco Finance Group with some on sold, but most scrapped. [ 6 ] [ 7 ] Four were leased back to RailCorp in 2004 (8601, 8609, 8622 and 8644) for use on infrastructure trains during construction of the Bondi Junction turnback .