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The line, 315 kilometres (196 miles) long, is part of the Adelaide–Darwin rail corridor and the Sydney–Perth rail corridor. One Rail Australia, Pacific National and SCT Logistics operate freight services on the line; the sole passenger service is Journey Beyond's experiential tourism trains The Ghan and Indian Pacific.
Train Name Operator Train Endpoints Operated Albany Progress: Western Australian Government Railways: Perth – Albany: 31 May 1961 – 1 December 1978 Albany Weekender: Western Australian Government Railways: Perth – Albany: 7 November 1964 – 1 August 1975 The Alice: State Rail Authority / Australian National: Sydney Central – Alice Springs
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.
The corridor is heavily trafficked by long-distance freight trains. As of 2008, [needs update] the rail corridor carried 81 per cent of land freight between the eastern states and Perth, up from 60 per cent in 1996–97; [3] and in November 2007, 3.46 billion gross tonne-kilometres of freight was carried, a record at the time. [4] [5]
A Sydney Trains B set departing Flemington station. Sydney Trains is the state government operator of the Sydney suburban railway network, which is part of the Transport for NSW network. Metro Trains Sydney, a private entity whose majority owner is MTR Corporation, operates the Sydney Metro rapid transit line on behalf of Transport for NSW.
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 Sydney Railway Company, a private company established to serve the interests of the port of Sydney, announced proposals to build a railway line to Bathurst in 1848. The company was taken over by the New South Wales Government in 1854, and in 1855 the first railway in the state was opened between Sydney and the present-day Granville (see ...
Arc Infrastructure (Western Australia); Australian Rail Track Corporation (interstate network); John Holland Rail (Country Regional Rail Network in New South Wales); Transport Asset Holding Entity of NSW (urban passenger lines in Sydney, Newcastle and Wollongong area, other New South Wales lines are controlled or maintained under contract by Australian Rail Track Corporation and John Holland Rail)
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