In 1969 the standard gauge rail network was extended east from Port Augusta as far as Sydney, and west of Kalgoorlie all the ...

Repairs to the Trans-Australian rail line are continuing around the clock following a freight train derailment in SA that ...

Australia’s Trans-Australian Railway is set to test the introduction of new technology across a 1,280km section of track between Tarcoola in South Australia (SA) and West Kalgoorlie in Western ...

UNITING a nation - a century of Trans-Australian Rail. Pity someone needing to cross Australia in 1900. The choices were equally bleak. There was a journey of thousands of kilometres over rough desert ...

With the gold fields of Western Australia too isolated in a newly federated country, the first tracks of what would become the Trans-Australian Railway were laid in 1912 — using picks, shovels, ...