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Almost all of Nevada is in the Pacific Time Zone (UTC-8).The few exceptions that exist all observe Mountain Time (UTC -7) and are close to the borders of Idaho or Utah.Other than these minor exceptions, Nevada is the only non coastal state to be entirely on Pacific Time.
In 1995, Queensland Rail detailed a $1.289 billion (equivalent to $2.52 billion in 2022) proposal for an inland railway corridor connecting Brisbane and Melbourne. [8] New dual gauge track would follow the existing 1,067 mm (3 ft 6 in) narrow gauge Main Line to Toowoomba, the Western railway line to Wyreema and the Millmerran railway line to its terminus at Millmerran, with new track ...
The standardisation of time in Australia began in 1892, when surveyors from the six colonies in Australia met in Melbourne for the Intercolonial Conference of Surveyors. . The delegates accepted the recommendation of the 1884 International Meridian Conference to adopt Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) as the basis for standard t
In August 2023, the National Rugby League (NRL) announced that two games in the opening round of the 2024 NRL season would be held in Las Vegas. The Brisbane Broncos, Manly Warringah Sea Eagles, South Sydney Rabbitohs, and Sydney Roosters were selected to play in the event, [4] [5] with the remainder of round one being confirmed at a later date. [6]
Before the introduction of XPT railcars, the Brisbane Limited train between Sydney and Brisbane (here in 1987) was hauled by locomotives. The Sydney–Brisbane railway corridor consists of the 987-kilometre (613-mile) long 1435 mm (4 ft 8 + 1 ⁄ 2 in) standard-gauge main line between the Australian state capitals of Brisbane and Sydney (New South Wales), and the lines immediately connected to it.
The two most significant relocations in Australian history were the interstate relocations of the South Melbourne Football Club to Sydney (1983:963 kilometres (598 mi)) and the Fitzroy Football Club's move of playing operations to Brisbane (1996: 1,669 kilometres (1,037 mi)), both ambitious moves due also to crossing the cultural divide known ...
Fitzroy played its last VFL/AFL game on 1 September 1996 against Fremantle at Subiaco Oval, and the Bears' last match was a preliminary final on Saturday 21 September 1996 at the Melbourne Cricket Ground against North Melbourne. The Brisbane Lions were officially launched on 1 November 1996, joining the national competition in 1997.
Until the 1990s most road freight between Sydney and Brisbane passed along the New England Highway instead, due to the easier topography of the Northern Tablelands it traverses. Between 1950 and 1967, traffic on Pacific Highway quadrupled due to the attraction of coastal towns between Sydney and Brisbane for retirement living and tourism.