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    The Trans-Australian Railway, opened in 1917, runs from Port Augusta in South Australia to Kalgoorlie in Western Australia, crossing the Nullarbor Plain...
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    The Trans-Australian (originally known as the Trans-Australian Express) was an Australian passenger train operated by the Commonwealth Railways initially...
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    the Australian heavy railways network route-kilometres are electrified. Except for a small number of private railways, most of the Australian railway network...
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    in which the Trans-Australian Railway is located. (92.0 km is the distance between Coonamia and Port Augusta.) "Trans-Australian Railway". National Museum...
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    Cook is a railway station and crossing loop located in the Australian state of South Australia on the Trans-Australian Railway. It is 824 kilometres (512...
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    Trans-Australian Railway. It is on the part of the railway that is the longest – at 478.193 kilometres (297.135 miles) – stretch of straight railway line...
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  • Sydney–Brisbane railway with the opening of a bridge at Grafton. The first standard gauge line in South Australia, Trans-Australian Railway, was completed...
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    Zanthus train collision (category Railway accidents and incidents in Western Australia)
    The Zanthus train collision occurred at a crossing loop on the Trans-Australian Railway between Perth and Sydney on 18 August 1999. It is located 739 km...
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    narrow-gauge Eastern Goldfields Railway from Kalgoorlie to Perth, opened in 1897. "Trans-Australian Railway". National Museum of Australia. 22 April 2020. Retrieved...
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    south–north railway although, crucially, no date was specified. Two routes were considered: a standard gauge line branching off the Trans-Australian Railway at...
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    Perth, leaving the remainder of the state sparsely populated. The Trans-Australian Railway and the Eyre Highway traverse the Nullarbor Plain in the state's...
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    world's longest straight stretch of railway track, a 478-kilometre (297 mi) stretch of the Trans-Australian Railway across the Nullarbor Plain. The service...
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    construct the Trans-Australian Railway had been one of the principal inducements to Western Australia to join the Commonwealth of Australia during federation...
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    Beyond Kalgoorlie, the line continues east as the Trans-Australian Railway. Construction of the railway station and yard was begun in the late 1890s, as...
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    completed in 1917, when the Trans-Australian Railway was opened between Port Augusta, South Australia and Kalgoorlie, Western Australia. This line, built by...
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  • Victoria, Australia Deakin, Australian Capital Territory, suburb of Canberra, Australia Deakin, Western Australia, siding on the Trans-Australian Railway Division...
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    Trans-Australian Railway to eastern Australia in 1917 at a break-of-gauge. The replacement standard gauge line opened in 1968. The Western Australian...
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  • South Australia, a stop on the Trans-Australian Railway Watson Island (Queensland), an island in Howick Group National Park, Queensland, Australia Canada...
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    South Australia, now has interests in cruise and air tourism in addition to rail. Before the 1990s, the government-owned Australian National Railways Commission...
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    The Australian National Railways Commission was an agency of the Government of Australia that was a railway operator between 1975 and 1998. It traded...
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    railway from Tarcoola. The South Australian Railways were transferred to the Australian Federal Government on 1 January 1911 however South Australian...
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    Rawlinna is an isolated locality on the Trans-Australian Railway in Western Australia, about 900 kilometres (560 miles) east of Perth, 380 kilometres...
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  • latter year, the Commonwealth Railways extended its standard gauge Trans-Australian Railway line from Port Augusta south to Port Pirie. The line was converted...
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    east–west transcontinental railway, the Trans-Australian Railway, was built from Port Augusta to Kalgoorlie in Western Australia. It was built to 1435 mm...
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    & Francis. p. 171. "Chinese Eastern Railway Company (China)". Flags of the World. "Trans-Manchurian Trains". Trans Siberian Express. Archived from the...
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    Connie Sue Highway (category Use Australian English from March 2018)
    Great Central Road and Rawlinna on the Trans-Australian Railway. It lies entirely in the state of Western Australia, crosses the Great Victoria Desert and...
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    The Trans-Iranian Railway (Persian: راه‌آهن سراسری ایران, romanized: Râh-âhan Sarâsari Irân) was a major railway building project started in Pahlavi Iran...
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  • Chambers, T.F. (November 1968). "The Golden Jubilee of the Trans Australian Railway". Australian Railway History: 267–75. Burke, David (1991). Road through the...
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    noted. There is only one major railway line linking the eastern states to Western Australia, the Trans-Australian Railway, which opened in 1917. There is...
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  • Forrest Airport (category Use Australian English from May 2013)
    Forrest, Western Australia. The airport is clearly visible from the Indian Pacific train, which services the Trans-Australian Railway. The airport was...
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