VARYING GAUGES.
AUSTRALIA’S RAILWAY PROBLEM. (From Our Own Correspondent.) SYDNEY, November 15. Travellers on the transcontinental railway are complaining of Australia’s absurd breaks of gauge, the 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 Australia and Victoria to the standard guage, a person could travel in one train from Kalgoorlie, in Western Australia, to the Queensland border. Although the Commonwealth and the other States have expressed their readiness to bear portion of the cost of converting the 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 the transcontinental railway to Broken Hill, in New South Wales, has been suggested as an alternative. With such a line, it is pointed out, the transcontinental ..train could run from Kalgoorlie to Sydney, and later right through to Brisbane, with the completion of the Kyogle-Brisbane line.
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Otago Witness, Issue 3898, 27 November 1928, Page 18
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