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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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A former railway signaller, Film Curatorial Officer Jeff Wray explores the train films of Roger McKenzie.
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The new NFSA documentary Steam on the Harbour showcases Darling Harbour as a busy railway goods yard, long before it became a Sydney tourist destination.
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We have more steam, and more trains, in a new mini-documentary about the NSW Hunter region's railway past.
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Rare archival footage from 1910 shows camels carrying heavy supplies across the desert. Railway labourers are building the 1400 km railway that will finally link Western Australia with the Eastern...
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A look back to 1977 and the touring museum of 700 years of British history that was the Royal Silver Jubilee Exhibition Train.
The film shows many of the exhibits and the stories behind them, and...
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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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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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A father and son, both rodeo riders, travel on the Ghan train from Marree in South Australia to the Alice Springs Rodeo. It’s an overnight trip through spectacular country, pausing briefly at towns...
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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...