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South Australia had a horse-drawn railway at the Murray River.
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Australia's first railway line, Sandridge, opened in Victoria running from Melbourne's Flinders Street Station to Port Melbourne.
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Sydney Railway Company started the first railway track in NSW between Sydney and Parramatta but came across financial difficulty so the NSM colonial government took over.
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The first line carrying steam-powered trains opened between Adelaide and Port Adelaide.
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A 72 kilometre long railway line opened between Launceston and Deloraine in Tasmania.
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The first railway to operate in Western Australia was a private timber railway that ran from Lockville to Yoganup.
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Queenlan's first railway ran from inland Ipswich to Granchester but was extented to the Darling Downs then connected to Brisbane.
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A railway running from Darwin to Pine Creek in the Northern Territory started operating.
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Between Queanbeyan, NSW and Canberra, ACT a 10 kilometre branch line opened.