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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.
The Mount Newman railway runs for 426 kilometres, from Newman to Port Hedland, and is one of Australia's longest private railways. The line, along with its spur lines to Mount Whaleback, Orebodies 18, 23 and 25, Jimblebar, Yandi and Area C, services the iron ore mines at Newman. It has the longest and heaviest trains in the world. [1]
A BNSF train of loaded well cars (or double-stack cars) at Caliente, California, United States. A Canadian National Railway double-stack container train.. 6,100 metres (20,000 ft) – United States – a June 2024 third-party study over 10 days in Arizona found that Union Pacific routinely runs intermodal trains of more than 5,500 m (18,000 ft) in length, of which the longest was a 6,100-metre ...
Freight transport volumes by mode (billion tonne-kilometres) [12] Including the mining railways, in 2015–16, there were 413.5 billion tonne kilometres of freight moved by rail. Overall railway freight in Australia is dominated by bulk freight, primarily iron ore and coal.
The Hamersley & Robe River railway, majority-owned by Rio Tinto, and operated by its subsidiary Pilbara Iron, is a private rail network in the Pilbara region of Western Australia for the purpose of carrying iron ore. The network is larger than any other Australian heavy freight rail network in private ownership.
The Ghan is one of the longest train journeys in the world, spanning 1,851 miles and multiple climate zones, from tropical Darwin in Australia’s “top end” to the lush hills of Adelaide on ...
Had short industrial lines, see Rail transport in Iceland for proposals 352 Jordan: Had passenger and freight lines, see Rail transport in Jordan: 400 Kiribati: Had industrial lines 296 Lebanon: Had from 1890 until 1970 (future projects to build a railway from Tyr to Tripoli) 422 Libya
Powerful freight locomotive in the 1970s with high continuous tractive effort. DSB EG: DB Schenker Rail: 3103-3113 Siemens: 1999–2000 Electric Co'Co' 132 tonnes (146 short tons) 400 kilonewtons (89,924 lbf) 6,500 kilowatts (8,717 hp) continuous