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A narrow-gauge sugar cane train in Queensland during 2015. Rail transport in Australia involves a number of narrow-gauge railways.In some states they formed the core statewide network, but in the others they were either a few government branch lines, or privately owned and operated branch lines, often for mining, logging or industrial use.
Kilrie entered preservation when sold to the Australian Narrow Gauge Railway Preservation Society (ANGRMS) at Woodford. Being 3’ 6" gauge, Kilrie perhaps did not easily fit with their 2’ gauge collection and operating railway, so Kilrie was placed on long-term lease to the Queensland Pioneer Steam Railway (QPSR) at Swanbank, west of Brisbane.
Menangle Narrow Gauge Railway [1] (operating) Newington Armaments Depot (defunct) Timbertown Heritage Railway (located in Timbertown) (operating) Pete's Hobby Railway (located in Junee) (Private 2 ft gauge railway that is operating. Public admittance is not allowed under the Rail Safety National Law (NSW), No. 82a of 2012) Queensland
The rail network in Queensland, Australia, was the first in the world to adopt 1,067 mm (3 ft 6 in) narrow gauge for a main line, and, in 2013, was claimed to the second largest narrow gauge network in the world, [1] consists of: the North Coast Line (NCL) extending 1,680 kilometres (1,040 mi) from Brisbane to Rockhampton, Townsville and Cairns
This was the first narrow gauge main line in the world. South Australia first adopted this gauge in 1867 with its line from Port Wakefield to Hoyleton. [24] The main reasons for choosing this were reduced cost, and the expectation that the narrow gauge would never connect to broad gauge lines. Overbuilt English railways were criticised.
In July 1998, it became part of the Australian Rail Track Corporation network. Until late 2017, this meant that the standard gauge trains had to cross the Outer Harbor railway line at-grade at Torrens Junction, north of the River Torrens. In 2017, this conflict was removed by lowering the suburban Outer Harbor line into a trench so it could ...
In the 1875, the South Australian Railways built a narrow gauge line from Port Pirie to Gladstone. [3] This was extended to Cockburn in 1888 where it joined with the Silverton Tramway. In April 1963, the Federal Government decided to replace the narrow gauge line with a new standard gauge line to create an East-West rail corridor from Sydney to ...
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