East-West rail corridor, Australia
- East-West rail corridor, Australia
The East-West rail corridor is a standard gauge railway that runs across Australia starting in Sydney, linking the Eastern states to Western Australia. [cite web
url=http://www.artc.com.au/library/Links%2014.pdf
work=Links
date=November 2006
title=Another record East West haul
publisher=Australian Rail Track Corporation
accessdate=2008-04-06] The "Indian Pacific" passenger service operates along the route, as do a number of local passenger services. Made up of a number of individual railway lines constructed by various government railway authorities since the 1880s, it was not until 1970 that gauge conversion was carried out and through trains were possible along the entire route. [cite web
url=http://www.natrailmuseum.org.au/common/nrm_a01_index.html
title=National Railway Museum Port Adelaide - Rail History
publisher=www.natrailmuseum.org.au
accessdate=2008-03-29]
The rail corridor has an 81% share of land freight between the Eastern States and Perth, up from 60 percent in 1996-97, [cite web
url=http://www.artc.com.au/Content.aspx?p=117
title=ARTC - News - NSW Lease 2004 Summary
publisher=www.artc.com.au
accessdate=2008-04-06] and saw a record 3.46 billion gross tonne kilometres of freight carried in November 2007. [cite web
url=http://www.artc.com.au/Article/Detail.aspx?p=6&np=4&id=122
title=ARTC - East West Rail Freight Record Tumbles
publisher=www.artc.com.au
accessdate=2008-04-06] Major freight operators on the corridor include Pacific National, QRNational, and Specialised Container Transport.
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