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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]
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This is a route-map template for the Ellenbrook line, a Transperth line in Perth, Australia.. For a key to symbols, see {{railway line legend}}.; For information on using this template, see Template:Routemap.
The line, 315 kilometres (196 miles) long, is part of the Adelaide–Darwin rail corridor and the Sydney–Perth rail corridor. Before the route was converted to 1435 mm ( 4 ft 8 + 1 ⁄ 2 in ) standard gauge in 1982, the two cities were connected by 1600 mm ( 5 ft 3 in ) broad gauge and 1067 mm ( 3 ft 6 in ) narrow gauge (until 1937); and ...
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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.
As the only rail freight corridor between Western Australia and the eastern states, the line is economically and strategically important. The railway includes the world's longest section of completely straight track. The inaugural passenger train service was known as the Great Western Express; later, it became the Trans-Australian.