East-West rail corridor, Australia

Sydney Sydney-Brisbane railway Sydney-Melbourne railway Main Suburban line Parramatta Main Western line Orange Broken Hill line Broken Hill NSW - SA border Crystal Brook-Broken Hill railway to Adelaide, and the Melbourne-Adelaide railway Crystal Brook Adelaide-Port Augusta Railway Port Augusta Trans-Australian Railway Tarcoola Adelaide-Darwin railway Trans-Australian Railway SA - WA border Trans-Australian Railway Kalgoorlie Eastern Goldfields Railway Northam Eastern Railway Perth

The East-West rail corridor is a standard gauge railway that runs across Australia starting in Sydney, linking the Eastern states to Western Australia.^[1] 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.^[2]

The rail corridor has an 81% share of land freight between the Eastern States and Perth, up from 60 percent in 1996-97,^[3] and saw a record 3.46 billion gross tonne kilometres of freight carried in November 2007.^[4] Major freight operators on the corridor include Pacific National, QRNational, and Specialised Container Transport.

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