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Tagged: railways

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Exploring Australia by Train
Within the NFSA collection there exists a railway enthusiast's dream. The collection includes a wide-ranging assemblage of film, sound and images of trains dating back to the late 19th Century. The...
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The Rail Way
The Rail Way offers a wideranging look at Australian railways, from the city underground to the railway of the remote outback. Rare footage from 1910 shows camels carrying heavy supplies across the...
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New Railway Link from Darwin to Alice Springs
This video clip is an excerpt from the film The New Railway Link from Darwin to Alice Springs, an episode fo the series Northern Territory Contact, produced in 1981. Princess Alexandra officially...
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New Standard Gauge Railway Links Marree And Port Augusta. Australian Diary 103.
From the Film Australia Collection. Made by the National Film Board 1958. Directed by Jack S Allan. Construction of a new standard rail gauge of 4 feet, 8 1/2 inches provides a rail link from Maree...
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The Commonwealth's Trans-Australian Railway
The construction of the Trans-Australian Railway and telegraph line from Port Augusta, S.A., to Kalgoorlie, W.A., during the period 1912 to 1917. Construction of railway carriages at Port Augusta is...
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All Manner Of Trains
An overview of Australia's railways in the early 1960s, before gauges across the country were standardised. The first section takes the form of a travelogue: from Cairns to Brisbane on the Sunlander...
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On Time
More than a million train passengers a day go through the gates at Flinders Street Station, Melbourne. Claimed to be the largest one station traffic in the world. Control of passengers and freight...
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Rail Town
Made by the National Film Board 1953. Port Augusta, South Australia, is distinctly an individual town with a character all its own. Here is the starting point for the long railway lines to Central...
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Journey of a Nation
Commissioned in 1947 as government propaganda, master documentary filmmaker John Heyer transformed this film about the standardisation of rail gauges into a heroic poem to the nation. When the film...
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Tea and Sugar Train
Once a week the Tea and Sugar Train leaves Port Augusta and heads west along the Nullarbor with all the supplies needed by the track maintenance workers and their families that live along the route....
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