Sydney-Melbourne rail corridor
- Sydney-Melbourne rail corridor
The Sydney-Melbourne railway is a standard gauge railway corridor that runs between Melbourne and Sydney, [cite web
url=http://www.artc.com.au/Content.aspx?p=158#sia
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accessdate=2008-03-29] the two largest cities in Australia. The CountryLink XPT passenger service operates along the route, as do a number of other freight and passenger services. Originally made up of the Victorian Railways broad gauge and the New South Wales Government Railways standard gauge lines that met at Albury at a break-of-gauge in 1883;[cite web]
url=http://www.victorianrailways.net/vr%20history/history.html
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accessdate=2008-03-29] it was not until the opening of a new line in Victoria in 1962 that through services were possible.ervices
The corridor was once home to intercapital passenger services such as the "Spirit of Progress", "Southern Aurora" and "Intercapital Daylight".
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