VARYING GAUGES
AUSTRALIA'S RAILWAYS (From "The Post's" Representative.) SYDNEY, 15th November, Travellers on the transcontinental railway are complaining of Australia's absurd breaks of gaugo, tho folly of which would-be accentuated if it had to fight a war within its own borders. Four separate trains, for example, are involved in travelling from Perth to Adelaide, five from Perth to Melbourne, seven from Perth to Sydney, and about nine from Perth to Brisbane. With conversion in South Austraia and Victoria to the standard gauge, a person could travel in one trjiin from Knlgoorlie, in Western Australia, to the Queensland border. Although tho Commonwealth and the other States have expressed their readiness to bear porr tion of the cost of converting tho Victorian and South Australian gauge to the standard gauge, it appears unlikely that anything will be done'in the immediate future. A standard gauge railway from Port Augusta, the South Australian end of tho transcontinental railway, to Broken Hill, in New South Wales, has been suggested as an alternative. With such a line, it is pointed ,out, thp transcontinental train could run from Kalgoorlio to Sydney, and later right through to Brisbane, with the completion of the Kyegle-Brisbane line.
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Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 121, 27 November 1928, Page 8
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VARYING GAUGES
Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 121, 27 November 1928, Page 8
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