Sydney-Brisbane rail corridor
- Sydney-Brisbane rail corridor
The Sydney-Brisbane railway corridor is a standard gauge railway corridor that runs between the state capitals of Brisbane and Sydney in Australia. [cite web
url=http://www.auslink.gov.au/whatis/network/corridors/AusLink_Corridors.aspx
title=AusLink Network Corridors
publisher=AusLink
accessdate=2008-03-29] The CountryLink XPT passenger service operates along the route, as do a number of other freight and passenger services. Originally made up of the Queensland Rail narrow gauge and the New South Wales Government Railways standard gauge lines that met at Wallagarra at a break-of-gauge in 1888. It was not until 1930 that the North Coast railway line was extended to Brisbane making though services possible,[cite web]
url=http://www.infrastructure.gov.au/rail/trains/history.aspx
title=History of Rail in Australia
publisher=Department of Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development and Local Government
accessdate=2008-03-29] [ cite web]
url=http://www.nswrail.net/lines/show.php?name=NSW:north_coast&mode=history
title=North Coast Line
publisher=NSWrail.net
accessdate=2008-04-08 ] using a rail ferry for the river crossing in Grafton in New South Wales, until a bridge was opened in 1932.[ cite web]
url=http://www.rta.nsw.gov.au/constructionmaintenance/downloads/clarenceriverfeasibilitystudyreport140203.pdf
title=Additional Crossing of the Clarence River - Feasibility Study Report
publisher=Roads and Traffic Authority
Date=February 2003
accessdate=2008-04-08 p1 ] References
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