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Australian Railway Historical Society
The Australian Railway Historical Society (ARHS) aims to foster an interest in the railways, and record and preserve many facets of railway operations.
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Australian railway signalling
Just as the railways of Australia has suffered issues from incompatible rail gauges, the different states have tended to go their own way regarding railway signalling practice.
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Australian standard pallet
Australian standard pallets are square hardwood pallets that are standard in Australia and non-standard anywhere else in the world.
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Bradshaw's Guide to Victoria (Australia)
The British Bradshaw's Guide was an early compiled timetable, including all known public railways in Great Britain.
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Broad-gauge railway
A broad-gauge railway is a railway with a track gauge broader than the standard-gauge railways.
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Cab unit
A cab unit and a carbody unit are body styles of locomotives in North American railroad terminology.
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Construction of Queensland railways
Queensland's railway construction commenced in 1864, with the turning of the first sod of the Main Line by Lady Diamantina Bowen, the wife of Queensland's first governor Sir George Bowen at Ipswich, Queensland, Australia.
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Crew car
A crew car (also known as a relay van) is a passenger carriage specially fitted out for the use of train drivers.
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Drover (Australian)
A drover in Australia is a person, typically an experienced stockman, who moves livestock, usually sheep, cattle, and horses "on the hoof" over long distances.
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Eastern Suburbs & Illawarra Line
The Eastern Suburbs & Illawarra Line (numbered T4, coloured azure blue) is a commuter railway line in the eastern and southern suburbs of Sydney and is a part of the Sydney Trains network.
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EMD G16
The EMD G16 is a diesel locomotive built by General Motors in the USA and under licence by Clyde Engineering in Australia and MACOSA in Spain.
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EMD G8
The EMD G8 was a General Motors-built diesel-electric locomotive of which 382 were built between 1954 and 1965 for both export and domestic use.
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Fifteen-inch gauge railway
Fifteen-inch gauge railways were pioneered by Sir Arthur Percival Heywood who was interested in what he termed a minimum gauge railway for use as estate railways or to be easy to lay on, for instance, a battlefield.
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Heaviest trains
The heaviest trains in the world are freight trains hauling bulk commodities such as coal and iron ore.
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High-speed rail in Australia
High-speed rail in Australia has been under investigation since the early 1980s.
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History of Australia
The History of Australia refers to the history of the area and people of the Commonwealth of Australia and its preceding Indigenous and colonial societies.
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History of rail transport in Australia
Australians generally assumed in the 1850s that railways would be built by the private sector.
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Inland Railway
The Inland Railway is a railway construction project extending from Melbourne to Brisbane along a route west of the mountainous Great Dividing Range.
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Janney coupler
The Janney Coupler is a semi-automatic railway coupler.
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List of Australian diesel locomotives
Diesel locomotives used on the railways of Australia.
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List of Australian railway companies
While railways in some states were briefly operated as private companies, railways of Australia have historically operated as Government instrumentalities.
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List of countries by rail transport network size
This list of countries by rail transport network size based on International Union of Railways data ranks countries by length of rail lines worked at end of year updated with other reliable sources.
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List of former Australian railway companies
This is a list of former railway operating companies operating in Australia.
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List of former government railway authorities of Australia
*See also: History of rail transport in Australia This is a list of former government railway authorities of Australia - often known colloquially in the different states as The Government Railways, and The State Railways.
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List of UIC country codes
The UIC Country Code is a two digit-number identifying countries in which members of the International Union of Railways (UIC) are active.
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Motive Power
Motive Power is a bi-monthly railway related magazine that focuses on diesel locomotives in Australia.
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Narrow-gauge railways in Australia
Rail transport in Australia involves a number of narrow-gauge railways.
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North British Locomotive Company
The North British Locomotive Company (NBL, NB Loco or North British) was created in 1903 through the merger of three Glasgow locomotive manufacturing companies; Sharp, Stewart and Company (Atlas Works), Neilson, Reid and Company (Hyde Park Works) and Dübs and Company (Queens Park Works), creating the largest locomotive manufacturing company in Europe and the British Empire.
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Outline of Australia
The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to Australia: Australia refers to both the continent of Australia and to the Commonwealth of Australia, the sovereign country.
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Outline of rail transport
The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to rail transport: Rail transport – means of conveyance of passengers and goods by way of wheeled vehicles running on rail tracks consisting of steel rails installed on sleepers/ties and ballast.
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Public float of QR National
In 2010 the Queensland Government split the government owned rail operator Queensland Rail into two companies: the government owned passenger operator Queensland Rail and the freight operator QR National (now Aurizon), the latter to be floated in late 2010.
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Rail transport by country
This page provides an index of articles on rail transport by country.
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Rail transport in New South Wales
The Australian state of New South Wales has an extensive network of railways, which were integral to the growth and development of the state.
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Rail transport in Queensland
The Queensland rail network, the first in the world to adopt narrow gauge for a main line, and now the second largest narrow gauge network in the world, consists of.
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Rail transport in Tasmania
Rail transport in Tasmania consists of a network of narrow gauge track of reaching virtually all cities and major towns in the island state of Tasmania, Australia.
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Railway coupling
A coupling (or a coupler) is a mechanism for connecting rolling stock in a train.
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Railway Digest
Railway Digest is a Sydney based monthly magazine covering the railways of Australia.
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Railway electrification in Australia
Electrification of Australian railways began with the Melbourne and Sydney suburban lines.
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Railway platform height
Railway platform height is the built height – above top of rail (ATR) – of passenger platforms at stations.
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Road transport in Australia
Road transport is an essential element of the Australian transport network, and enabler of the Australian economy.
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Scharfenberg coupler
The Scharfenberg coupler (Scharfenbergkupplung, abbreviated Schaku) is a commonly used type of fully automatic railway coupling.
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Tourism in Australia
Tourism in Australia is an important component of the Australian economy.
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Track gauge
In rail transport, track gauge is the spacing of the rails on a railway track and is measured between the inner faces of the load-bearing rails.
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Train reporting number (Australia)
Train reporting numbers are used on Australian railway networks to help network operators, and other users, coordinate train movements and identify trains.
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Transport in Australia
There are many forms of transport in Australia.
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Transport in Oceania
*This page links to several topics related to transport in Oceania.
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Universal Publishers (Australia)
Universal Publishers produce the ubiquitous UBD-Gregory's street directories in Australia.
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Victorian Railways G class
The G class Garratt locomotives were built for the Victorian Railways 2 ft 6 in gauge branch lines.
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William McCulloch (Australian politician)
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1854 in rail transport
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1980 in Australia
The following lists events that happened during 1980 in Australia.
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1993 in rail transport
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2 ft 6 in gauge railways
gauge railways are narrow gauge railways with track gauge of.
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2 ft and 600 mm gauge railways
Two foot and 600 mm gauge railways are narrow gauge railways with track gauges of and, respectively.
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3 ft 6 in gauge railways
Railways with a track gauge of were first constructed as horse-drawn wagonways.
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3 ft gauge railways
Three foot gauge railways have a track gauge of or 1 yard.
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900 mm gauge railways
narrow-gauge railways are generally found in Europe.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rail_transport_in_Australia
