Broken Hill railway line, New South Wales

Broken Hill railway line, New South Wales

The Broken Hill railway line is now part of the transcontinental railway from Sydney to Perth.

New South Wales's first line opened from Sydney to Parramatta Junction (near Granville Station) in 1855 and was extended as the Main Western line in stages to Orange in 1877. The Broken Hill line branched off the Main Western line at Orange and was opened to Molong in 1885. It was extended to Parkes and Forbes in 1893. This line was extended from Parkes to Bogan Gate and Condobolin in 1898 and Roto and Trida in 1919.

An isolated section of standard gauge line was also opened from Menindee to Broken Hill in 1919, which met the 1067 mm gauge Silverton Tramway at a break-of-gauge. At Cockburn, South Australia, the Silverton Tramway connected with the South Australian Railways system to Port Pirie and via a break of gauge at Terowie to Adelaide. The final missing link between Trida and Menindee was completed in 1927. The Broken Hill Express, running from Sydney to Broken Hill, was introduced from November, 1927. Included in its composition was Dining Car, AB90, making it the first regularly scheduled Dining Car in that state ["On-train Catering in New South Wales" Banger, Chris Australian Railway History, March, 2004 pp102-103] . In 1969 the Broken Hill - Port Pirie line was standardised, completing the Sydney–Perth standard gauge link.cite web
publisher = www.nswrail.net
title = Broken Hill Line
url = http://www.nswrail.net/lines/show.php?name=NSW:broken_hill
accessdate = 2006-11-17 ]

Branch line

A branch line was opened from Molong to Dubbo as an alternative route with better grades in 1925. It was closed in 1987. Another branch line was opened from Bogan Gate to Trundle in 1907, Tullamore in 1908 and Tottenham in 1916.cite web
publisher = www.nswrail.net
title = Tottenham Branch
url = http://www.nswrail.net/lines/show.php?name=NSW:tottenham
accessdate = 2006-11-17 ]

See also

*Rail transport in New South Wales

Notes

References

* McCarthy K. "Steaming down Argent Street." Sydney Tramway Museum, Sutherland. 1983.


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