Made by the National Film Board 1953. Port Augusta, South Australia, is distinctly an individual town with a character all its own.

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.

A 1953 junior school film in the Social Studies series, primarily designed to assist teachers to explain the ticket's system.

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

A wide-ranging look at Australian railways - from the city underground to the railway of the remote outback.

Late 1940s in the industrial centre of Ipswich, Queensland.