1880s map showing the railway systems of Australia

1880s map showing the railway systems of Australia

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‘Was going to whinge they left out Tasmania, but then again, being the 1880’s, Tasmania was a totally independent colony, no more a part of ‘Australia’ (as a unified concept) than NZ, Malaysia, or any other British colony in the region. But from the modern perspective, it seems odd. The focus on the trans-continental seems to be the primary reason for the choice of area covered/features shown

Also because no one gives a shit about tasmania

As a Tasmanian I agree’

Passenger Railways of Australia

Passenger Railways of Australia

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‘It’s weird seeing what I had previously compartmentalised as separate train networks actually forming a connected whole

I travel frequently on the XPT trains between Brisbane, Sydney and Melbourne, so I’ve developed a map in my head of the networks of those regions.

Melbourne: you arrive at Southern Cross station, there are charging stations, $10 shower facilities, and other trains that’ll take you around Melbourne and Victoria.

Sydney: this station used to be a maze for me, there are bathrooms, but I don’t think I noticed any showers or charging stations.

Brisbane: the XPT always arrives and departs at the worst times imaginable, so you have to wait at Central station and not Roma St station most of the time. The station is also under construction so yeah literally nothing for you here.

Also no need for bus cards in Melbourne or Sydney, but in Brisbane you need it for the Airport - Central - Beenleigh - Varsity Lakes route still I think. Not sure when bus cards will stop being a thing but yeah’

How Sydney's urban rail system will look in 2030

How Sydney’s urban rail system will look in 2030

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‘Sweet. Still nothing on northern beaches

makes sense that people from the richest part of sydney are complaining about public transportation let alone anything, surely if u can afford houses and land rates out there use own a car that u can drive on the nice/smooth roads use have.🤦‍♂️😂😂

cos out west where these plans are, the pot holes are as big as the empty space in some of northern beaches residents heads or as big as ur egos, (them said pot holes are from around 5 yrs back that still ain’t been fixed properly and keep getting worse mind u) and the same roads are what lead out to where all the new estates are being built up aswell as the airport… does the beaches have a air port or land for new housing🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️

the western/south western-ers actually need it cos as well as the horrid roads and all the crap being built out here, they still only get max 3 busses a day in most parts (not including school busses which are private) while use get them by the hr and in some parts use get them every half hr😂😂, so just be grateful for what use already have & patient cos even tho they say 2030 we all know that’s gonna be 2035-36

Take it easy champ. Roads are fucked over this way too. Ppl just don’t want a train line. Plain n simple. Not sure what you mean by complaining about public transport. We’ve got buses, and ferries from manly. Chatswood is 15min from Dee why where there are trains. Pub transport should be focused on where there is population growth. Nthn beaches isn’t an area that will have massive population growth’

Reconstructed map of the 1945 Clapp Report proposals for standardisation of Australia's railways

Reconstructed map of the 1945 Clapp Report proposals for standardisation of Australia’s railways

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“I done some digging and found that South Australia uses standard gauge for the most part. 2500ish km standard vs 250isk broad. Victoria is about 60/40 broad 2350, standard 1950 … Huh interesting. I’d imagine the huge chunk of that would be the trans-australian and darwin lines. A lot of SA’s early lines were built broad (like the line to Melbourne). Then for some random reason SAR decided to build a lot of lines in the north of the state as narrow. All the early standard gauge lines in SA were built by Commonwealth Railways (like the trans-australian). The Melbourne line and a few branching off of it were later converted to standard in the early 90s”

Movement of the travellers transported via the French railroads in 1891 (published 1893)

Movement of the travellers transported via the French railroads in 1891 (published 1893)

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‘Someone may want to correct me, as I don’t speak French, but –

The width of the bands colored in purple represent on the scale of 1 millimeter per 100,000 passengers, the movement of travelers transported on each line section in both directions, that is to say the average number reduced to the total length of this line or this section.

The numbers of travelers attached to each line have been expressed in thousands with a single decimal for the hundreds’–AJgloe