i read that a stretch in west. australia is the longest straight track anywhere… true?
what part of australia is it in?
what is the r.r. name?
how long is the straight part?
how many hours to travel it?
is there a local name for that part of the line?
how often do trains run?
are there local stops on the way?
does an express travel the whole stretch w/o stopping?
Its in the state of Western Australia, along the southern coast, on the Nullarbor Plain Australia only transcontinental (east-west) railroad, The Great Southern Railway owns and operates the passenger train called the Indian Pacific with twice weekly service. The longest straight in the world is 478 kilometers, and at around 100 kilometers per hour it should take close to 5 hours to cross it. The Indian Pacific does not stop on the straight, but the city of Kalgoorlie is near, and its exactly 25 hours west of Adelaide on the trains schedule. The Indian Pacific starts in Sydney and arrives in Perth three days later. For more information:
donclark,
thanks for your reply and the website… i dont now know if you’re from ‘down under’, but there’s one thing i’ve been wanting to ask someone who knows the social scene in the 'roo country…
is foster’s really australian for beer?
Fosters is number one, but there are more, you can even buy a Bud in Australia. Its the same everywhere. However, like the British, the Aussies drink their beer warm…
Don,
I don’t know where your from but here in Queensland and just about every other place I have been in Oz we drink beer thats ice cold. VB and XXXX are other popular beers. My wife and I travelled on the Indian Pacific 2 years ago and enjoyed the trip, we have also driven across the Nullabor (which means no trees in Latin) and it also took 3 days.
Darren
Since Australia has three different gauges, how is interchange handled between different roads, especially between Queensland and everybody else?
Before intermodel where staddle loaders shift containers from a standard gauge flat to a narrow and vice versa, we had break-of-gauge stations which had long platforms where passengers and their luggage or freight was manually unloaded and reloaded on trains either side of the platforms. As you can imagine it was laborious, time consuming and increased the risk of loss or damage. Australia had narrow (3’6") standard and broad (5’3") gauges originally so freight going from Melbourne, Victoria to Rockhampton, Queensland in the 1930’s had to go through 2 break-of-gauge stations enroute. The different gauges has been Australia’s biggest curse for an efficient national rail system and has stemmed from a lack of foresight and stubborness in the 1860’s.
Its actually in south aus
i wrote to the website mentioned early in the topic for more info.2+ weeks ago, no answer yet…
i read that a stretch in west. australia is the longest straight track anywhere… true?
what part of australia is it in?
what is the r.r. name?
how long is the straight part?
how many hours to travel it?
is there a local name for that part of the line?
how often do trains run?
are there local stops on the way?
does an express travel the whole stretch w/o stopping?
Its in the state of Western Australia, along the southern coast, on the Nullarbor Plain Australia only transcontinental (east-west) railroad, The Great Southern Railway owns and operates the passenger train called the Indian Pacific with twice weekly service. The longest straight in the world is 478 kilometers, and at around 100 kilometers per hour it should take close to 5 hours to cross it. The Indian Pacific does not stop on the straight, but the city of Kalgoorlie is near, and its exactly 25 hours west of Adelaide on the trains schedule. The Indian Pacific starts in Sydney and arrives in Perth three days later. For more information:
donclark,
thanks for your reply and the website… i dont now know if you’re from ‘down under’, but there’s one thing i’ve been wanting to ask someone who knows the social scene in the 'roo country…
is foster’s really australian for beer?
Fosters is number one, but there are more, you can even buy a Bud in Australia. Its the same everywhere. However, like the British, the Aussies drink their beer warm…
Don,
I don’t know where your from but here in Queensland and just about every other place I have been in Oz we drink beer thats ice cold. VB and XXXX are other popular beers. My wife and I travelled on the Indian Pacific 2 years ago and enjoyed the trip, we have also driven across the Nullabor (which means no trees in Latin) and it also took 3 days.
Darren
Since Australia has three different gauges, how is interchange handled between different roads, especially between Queensland and everybody else?
Before intermodel where staddle loaders shift containers from a standard gauge flat to a narrow and vice versa, we had break-of-gauge stations which had long platforms where passengers and their luggage or freight was manually unloaded and reloaded on trains either side of the platforms. As you can imagine it was laborious, time consuming and increased the risk of loss or damage. Australia had narrow (3’6") standard and broad (5’3") gauges originally so freight going from Melbourne, Victoria to Rockhampton, Queensland in the 1930’s had to go through 2 break-of-gauge stations enroute. The different gauges has been Australia’s biggest curse for an efficient national rail system and has stemmed from a lack of foresight and stubborness in the 1860’s.
Its actually in south aus
i wrote to the website mentioned early in the topic for more info.2+ weeks ago, no answer yet…