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Queensland – Standard Time Act 1894 [14] New South Wales – Standard Time Act 1987 [15] Australian Capital Territory and Jervis Bay Territory – Standard Time and Summer Time Act 1972 [16] Victoria – Summer Time Act 1972 [17] Tasmania – Standard Time Act 1895 [18] and the Daylight Saving Act 2007 [19]
In 1968, Tasmania was the first state since the war to adopt daylight saving. In 1971, New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Victoria, and the Australian Capital Territory also adopted daylight saving, while Western Australia and the Northern Territory did not. Queensland abandoned daylight saving in 1972.
The Sydney–Perth rail corridor is a 1435 mm (4 ft 8 + 1 ⁄ 2 in) standard gauge railway route that runs for 4352 kilometres (2704 mi) across Australia from Sydney, New South Wales, to Perth, Western Australia. [1] Most of the route is under the control of the Australian Rail Track Corporation. [2]
Xinjiang Time Canonical +06:00 +06:00 +06 asia The Asia/Urumqi entry in the tz database reflected the use of Xinjiang Time by part of the local population. Consider using Asia/Shanghai for Beijing Time if that is preferred. RU: Asia/Ust-Nera: MSK+07 - Oymyakonsky Canonical +10:00 +10:00 +10 europe LA: Asia/Vientiane: Link † +07:00 +07:00 +07 ...
1919 – Railways of New South Wales and South Australia meet at Broken Hill with break-of-gauge; 1919 – First electric suburban trains run in Melbourne; 1924 – Final section of North Coast line opens, linking Cairns to the rest of the Australian railway system; 1925 – Great White Train is created to promote industry and tours in New ...
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 late 2018, the New South Wales State Government announced a new high-speed rail network connecting Sydney and regional NSW. [99] The government is spending $4.6 million on investigating four identified potential routes. [100] These are Sydney to Port Macquarie, Orange/Parkes, Nowra and Canberra. [101]
New South Wales Railways logo on passenger car Locomotive No. 1 at the Powerhouse Museum. New South Wales' railways date from 10 December 1831 when the Australian Agricultural Company officially opened Australia's first railway, [2] located at the intersection of Brown and Church Streets, Newcastle.