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Railways

  • In NSW, the Sydney Railway Company Started to build the first Railway track In NSW

    In NSW, the Sydney Railway Company Started to build the first Railway track In NSW
    It was between Sydney to Parramatta - a distance of 22km. The project ran into finacial diffculty and was taken over by theNSW colonial goverment.
  • SA had horse drawn Railway operating at the mouth of the murry river.

  • First Railway line in Australia

    First Railway line in Australia
    It opened between Melbourne's Flinder Street Station and Port Melbourne, and then called Sandridge
  • The Sydney - Parramatta Railway line opened

  • The Line carring steam powered trains

  • In Tasmania, a railway line 72km long,opened between the northern towns of Launcesten and Deloraine

  • A private timber railway from Lockville to Yoganup, South of Perth, was the first railway to operater in WA

  • The First Railway in QLD

    It Ran from Ipswich inland to Grandchester. The system extented into the Darling Downs Befor Being connect to Brisbane, the capital
  • The first goverment railway was between Geraldon and Northampton

  • In the NT, a railway between Darwin and Pine Creek

  • In the ACT a 10km branch line opened between Queanbeyan, NSW, and Canberra