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The Overland is an interstate passenger train service in Australia, travelling between the state capitals of Melbourne and Adelaide, a distance of 828 km (515 mi). It first ran in 1887 as the Adelaide Express, known by South Australians as the Melbourne Express. [1] It was given its current name in 1936.
The Melbourne–Adelaide rail corridor consists of the 828-kilometre (514-mile) long 1435 mm (4 ft 8 + 1 ⁄ 2 in) standard-gauge main line between the Australian state capitals of Melbourne, Victoria and Adelaide, South Australia, and the lines immediately connected to it. [1]
In 1889, the direct Melbourne–Ballarat route was opened. [2] In the 1970s, most interstate lines in Australia began to be converted to standard gauge. By the 1990s, with Adelaide to Melbourne the only interstate link not converted, various proposals were made for gauge conversion. Two main options were put forward:
Journey Beyond Rail Expeditions: Adelaide Parklands Terminal – Melbourne Southern Cross (originally Adelaide – Melbourne Spencer Street) 19 January 1887–present Prospector: Transwa: East Perth – Kalgoorlie: 29 November 1971–present Riverina Express: New South Wales Government Railways: Sydney Central – Albury / Griffith: September ...
The Dry Creek–Port Adelaide railway line is an eight-kilometre east–west freight railway line running through Adelaide's north-western suburbs. The line is managed by the Australian Rail Track Corporation (ARTC) and is an important link between Port Adelaide, Pelican Point and the main interstate rail routes which link Adelaide with Melbourne, Perth, Darwin and Sydney.
The train is not often used to its full potential, operating along winding steam-era alignments; [20] for example, the average speed on the Sydney–Melbourne route in 2002 was 75 kilometres per hour (47 miles per hour). [21] New South Wales trialled the Swedish X 2000 tilt train in 1995. Propelled by two specially modified XPT power cars, the ...
The ARTC network extends from Adelaide towards Melbourne, Sydney, Perth and Darwin and is used by substantial interstate freight traffic. Journey Beyond is a private company operating long-distance interstate passenger trains from the Adelaide Parklands Terminal, just west of the CBD, on the ARTC's standard gauge lines.
The line was extended further west from Ballarat to Beaufort in 1874, Ararat in 1875, Stawell in 1876, Murtoa, in 1878, Horsham in 1882, Dimboola in 1882, and lastly Nhill and Serviceton in 1887, where it met with the South Australian Railways line from Adelaide. The direct route from Melbourne to Ballarat opened in 1889, when a branch line ...
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