East-West rail corridor, Australia

Sydney Sydney-Brisbane railway Sydney-Melbourne railway Main Suburban line Parramatta Main Western line Orange Broken Hill line Broken Hill NSW - SA border Crystal Brook-Broken Hill railway to Adelaide, and the Melbourne-Adelaide railway Crystal Brook Port Augusta Trans-Australian Railway Tarcoola Adelaide-Darwin railway Trans-Australian Railway SA - WA border Trans-Australian Railway Kalgoorlie Eastern Goldfields Railway Northam Eastern Railway Perth

The East-West rail corridor is a standard gauge railway that runs across Australia starting in Sydney, linking the Eastern states to Western Australia. Sydney, the largest city in Australia, has an extensive network of passenger and freight railways Services The corridor was once home to intercapital passenger services such as the Spirit of Progress, Southern Aurora and Intercapital The Inner West Line is a railway line located in the Inner West region of Sydney, Australia. Parramatta Railway Station is the main station in Sydney's satellite city of Parramatta. The Main Western Railway is a major railway in New South Wales, Australia. Orange is a provincial city in New South Wales, Australia. It is located on the Mitchell Highway, west of Sydney at an altitude of. The Broken Hill railway line is now part of the transcontinental railway from Sydney to Perth. For the Local Government Area of Broken Hill see City of Broken Hill Broken Hill is an isolated Mining city and Local Government Area The rail network in Adelaide, South Australia, consists of five lines and 81 stations, totalling 125 Crystal Brook is a town in South Australia, named for the stream that passes through the town Port Augusta (post code 5700 ( is the fifth most populous City in South Australia after Adelaide, Mount Gambier, Whyalla and The Trans-Australian Railway is a railway line that crosses the Nullarbor Plain of Australia from Port Augusta in South Australia to Tarcoola ( postcode 5710 altitude 204 m is a town in the Far North of South Australia 416 km north-northwest of Port Augusta. The Adelaide - Darwin railway is north-south transcontinental railway in Australia between the cities of Adelaide, South Australia and Darwin, Northern The Eastern Goldfields Railway (EGR was built in the 1880s to connect Perth, Western Australia with the rich goldfields at Coolgardie and Kalgoorlie Northam is a town in Western Australia, situated at the confluence of the Avon and Mortlock Rivers about north-east of Perth in the Avon First section The first section of the Eastern Railway from Fremantle to Guildford, remained generally unchanged since it was opened on 1 March Transperth Trains is a division of the Public Transport Authority of Western Australia responsible for operating Perth ’s urban passenger rail system as part The standard gauge (also named the Stephenson gauge after George Stephenson, or Normal gauge) is a widely-used Rail gauge. For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic Australia topics. Sydney (ˈsɪdniː is the most populous city in Australia, with a Metropolitan area population of approximately 4 The Eastern states of Australia refers to the states adjoining the east coast of Australia. Western Australia is a state occupying the entire western third of the Australian continent. ^[1] The Indian Pacific passenger service operates along the route, as do a number of local passenger services. Route The route leaves East Perth Station and travels first along a dual gauge section of the Midland suburban line and east to Kalgoorlie, then following Made up of a number of individual railway lines constructed by various government railway authorities since the 1880s, it was not until 1970 that gauge conversion was carried out and through trains were possible along the entire route. ^[2]

The rail corridor has an 81% share of land freight between the Eastern States and Perth, up from 60 percent in 1996-97,^[3] and saw a record 3. 46 billion gross tonne kilometres of freight carried in November 2007. ^[4] Major freight operators on the corridor include Pacific National, QRNational, and Specialised Container Transport. Pacific National is one of Australia 's largest private rail freight businesses QRNational is a rail freight transport company in Australia, an operating arm of the Queensland government owned and based operator QR Specialised Container Transport (SCT is an interstate transport company in Australia, with facilities in Melbourne, Adelaide, Parkes

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