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- History_of_rail_transport_in_Australia abstract "This article is part of the history of rail transport by country seriesAustralians generally assumed in the 1850s that railways would be built by the private sector. Private companies built railways in the then colonies of Victoria, opened in 1854, and New South Wales, where the company was taken over by the government before completion in 1855, due to bankruptcy. South Australia's railways were government owned from the beginning, including a horse-drawn line opened in 1854 and a steam-powered line opened in 1856. In Victoria, the private railways were soon found not to be financially viable, and existing rail networks and their expansion was taken over by the colony. Government ownership also enabled railways to be built to promote development, even if not apparently viable in strictly financial terms. The railway systems spread from the colonial capitals, except in cases where geography dictated a choice of an alternate port.Railways in Australia date from the 10 December 1831 when the Australian Agricultural Company officially opened Australia's first railway, located at the intersection of Brown & Church Streets, Newcastle, New South Wales. Privately owned and operated to service the A Pit coal mine, it was a cast iron fishbelly rail on an inclined plane as a gravitational railwayThe colonial railways were built to three different gauges, which became a problem once lines of different systems met at Albury, New South Wales in 1881 and Wallangarra, Queensland in 1888. In the 20th century, the lines between major cities were converted to standard gauge and electrified suburban networks were built in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane and Perth. In the second half of the 20th century, many rural branch lines were closed to passenger traffic or altogether in all states. On the other hand, long heavy-haul railways were built to transport iron ore in Western Australia and coal in Queensland to ports. In Western Australia these railways are privately owned.In the 1990s and the early 21st century, the traditional networks were reorganised and partially privatised. The interstate standard gauge network came largely under the control of the Australian Rail Track Corporation and private companies were allowed to operate on it for the first time. Some non-metropolitan intrastate networks became privately controlled and the operation of private freight and passenger trains commenced. Queensland Rail was left as the only government-owned operator of freight or rural passenger trains. The Melbourne suburban railways became the first urban rail system to be operated by private sector franchisees.".
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- History_of_rail_transport_in_Australia wikiPageWikiLink 25_kV_AC_railway_electrification.
- History_of_rail_transport_in_Australia wikiPageWikiLink 5_ft_3_in_gauge_railways.
- History_of_rail_transport_in_Australia wikiPageWikiLink Adelaide.
- History_of_rail_transport_in_Australia wikiPageWikiLink Adelaide–Darwin_railway.
- History_of_rail_transport_in_Australia wikiPageWikiLink Albany,_Western_Australia.
- History_of_rail_transport_in_Australia wikiPageWikiLink Albury.
- History_of_rail_transport_in_Australia wikiPageWikiLink Albury_railway_station.
- History_of_rail_transport_in_Australia wikiPageWikiLink Alice_Springs.
- History_of_rail_transport_in_Australia wikiPageWikiLink Alice_Springs_railway_station.
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- History_of_rail_transport_in_Australia wikiPageWikiLink Australian_Capital_Territory.
- History_of_rail_transport_in_Australia wikiPageWikiLink Australian_National_Railways_Commission.
- History_of_rail_transport_in_Australia wikiPageWikiLink Australian_Rail_Track_Corporation.
- History_of_rail_transport_in_Australia wikiPageWikiLink Australian_Railroad_Group.
- History_of_rail_transport_in_Australia wikiPageWikiLink Australian_Transport_Network.
- History_of_rail_transport_in_Australia wikiPageWikiLink Australian_gold_rushes.
- History_of_rail_transport_in_Australia wikiPageWikiLink BHP_Billiton.
- History_of_rail_transport_in_Australia wikiPageWikiLink Ballarat.
- History_of_rail_transport_in_Australia wikiPageWikiLink Ballarat_railway_station.
- History_of_rail_transport_in_Australia wikiPageWikiLink Bathurst_railway_station,_New_South_Wales.
- History_of_rail_transport_in_Australia wikiPageWikiLink Beachport.
- History_of_rail_transport_in_Australia wikiPageWikiLink Bendigo.
- History_of_rail_transport_in_Australia wikiPageWikiLink Bendigo_railway_station.
- History_of_rail_transport_in_Australia wikiPageWikiLink Bill_Wentworth.
- History_of_rail_transport_in_Australia wikiPageWikiLink Blyth,_South_Australia.
- History_of_rail_transport_in_Australia wikiPageWikiLink Bomaderry_railway_station.
- History_of_rail_transport_in_Australia wikiPageWikiLink Bourke,_New_South_Wales.
- History_of_rail_transport_in_Australia wikiPageWikiLink Bowen_railway_station.
- History_of_rail_transport_in_Australia wikiPageWikiLink Break-of-gauge.
- History_of_rail_transport_in_Australia wikiPageWikiLink Brisbane.
- History_of_rail_transport_in_Australia wikiPageWikiLink Broad_gauge.
- History_of_rail_transport_in_Australia wikiPageWikiLink Broken_Hill_railway_line.
- History_of_rail_transport_in_Australia wikiPageWikiLink Broken_Hill_railway_station.
- History_of_rail_transport_in_Australia wikiPageWikiLink Brookfield_Rail.
- History_of_rail_transport_in_Australia wikiPageWikiLink Bunbury,_Western_Australia.
- History_of_rail_transport_in_Australia wikiPageWikiLink Bundaberg_railway_station.
- History_of_rail_transport_in_Australia wikiPageWikiLink Burnie,_Tasmania.
- History_of_rail_transport_in_Australia wikiPageWikiLink Burra,_South_Australia.
- History_of_rail_transport_in_Australia wikiPageWikiLink CFCL_Australia.
- History_of_rail_transport_in_Australia wikiPageWikiLink Cable_railway.
- History_of_rail_transport_in_Australia wikiPageWikiLink Cairns_railway_station.
- History_of_rail_transport_in_Australia wikiPageWikiLink Canberra_railway_station.
- History_of_rail_transport_in_Australia wikiPageWikiLink Cast_iron.
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- History_of_rail_transport_in_Australia wikiPageWikiLink Category:Rail_transport_in_Australia.
- History_of_rail_transport_in_Australia wikiPageWikiLink Charleville_railway_station,_Queensland.
- History_of_rail_transport_in_Australia wikiPageWikiLink Charters_Towers_railway_station.
- History_of_rail_transport_in_Australia wikiPageWikiLink Chullora.
- History_of_rail_transport_in_Australia wikiPageWikiLink City_Loop.
- History_of_rail_transport_in_Australia wikiPageWikiLink Clare,_South_Australia.
- History_of_rail_transport_in_Australia wikiPageWikiLink Commonwealth_Railways.
- History_of_rail_transport_in_Australia wikiPageWikiLink Constitution_of_Australia.
- History_of_rail_transport_in_Australia wikiPageWikiLink Cooktown,_Queensland.
- History_of_rail_transport_in_Australia wikiPageWikiLink Crystal_Brook,_South_Australia.
- History_of_rail_transport_in_Australia wikiPageWikiLink Darling_Downs.
- History_of_rail_transport_in_Australia wikiPageWikiLink Darwin,_Northern_Territory.
- History_of_rail_transport_in_Australia wikiPageWikiLink Deloraine,_Tasmania.
- History_of_rail_transport_in_Australia wikiPageWikiLink Devonport,_Tasmania.
- History_of_rail_transport_in_Australia wikiPageWikiLink Dutton_Park_railway_station.
- History_of_rail_transport_in_Australia wikiPageWikiLink East_Perth_railway_station.
- History_of_rail_transport_in_Australia wikiPageWikiLink Eastern_Railway_(Western_Australia).
- History_of_rail_transport_in_Australia wikiPageWikiLink East–west_rail_corridor,_Australia.
- History_of_rail_transport_in_Australia wikiPageWikiLink Echuca_railway_station.
- History_of_rail_transport_in_Australia wikiPageWikiLink Economy_of_China.
- History_of_rail_transport_in_Australia wikiPageWikiLink Emu_Bay_Railway.
- History_of_rail_transport_in_Australia wikiPageWikiLink Enfield,_New_South_Wales.
- History_of_rail_transport_in_Australia wikiPageWikiLink Esperance,_Western_Australia.
- History_of_rail_transport_in_Australia wikiPageWikiLink Evandale,_Tasmania.
- History_of_rail_transport_in_Australia wikiPageWikiLink Federation_of_Australia.
- History_of_rail_transport_in_Australia wikiPageWikiLink Fisherman_Islands_railway_line.
- History_of_rail_transport_in_Australia wikiPageWikiLink Fortescue_Metals_Group.
- History_of_rail_transport_in_Australia wikiPageWikiLink Fortescue_railway.
- History_of_rail_transport_in_Australia wikiPageWikiLink Francis_Webb_Sheilds.
- History_of_rail_transport_in_Australia wikiPageWikiLink FreightCorp.
- History_of_rail_transport_in_Australia wikiPageWikiLink FreightLink.
- History_of_rail_transport_in_Australia wikiPageWikiLink Fremantle.
- History_of_rail_transport_in_Australia wikiPageWikiLink Fremantle_railway_station.
- History_of_rail_transport_in_Australia wikiPageWikiLink Gawler_railway_station.
- History_of_rail_transport_in_Australia wikiPageWikiLink Geelong.
- History_of_rail_transport_in_Australia wikiPageWikiLink Geelong_and_Melbourne_Railway_Company.
- History_of_rail_transport_in_Australia wikiPageWikiLink Genesee_&_Wyoming.
- History_of_rail_transport_in_Australia wikiPageWikiLink Genesee_&_Wyoming_Australia.
- History_of_rail_transport_in_Australia wikiPageWikiLink Geraldton.
- History_of_rail_transport_in_Australia wikiPageWikiLink Gladstone_railway_station,_Queensland.
- History_of_rail_transport_in_Australia wikiPageWikiLink Glenfield_railway_station,_Sydney.
- History_of_rail_transport_in_Australia wikiPageWikiLink Goldsworthy_railway.
- History_of_rail_transport_in_Australia wikiPageWikiLink Goolwa,_South_Australia.