An overview of Australia's railways in the early 1960s, before gauges across the country were standardised.

We have more steam, and more trains, in a new mini-documentary about the NSW Hunter region's railway past.

An NFSA documentary showcasing the history of the NSW Hunter region as a major transport network.

Railway workers unload materials from a railway truck for the construction of a segment of the trans-continental railway line. Two men in a horsedrawn buggy ride past the camera.

A point-of-view shot from the front of a train as it travels along a section of new track and makes its way into Port Augusta.

This clip is one of three different ads from the late 1960s or early 1970s which feature the tagline 'when you get Roses, you’ve got yourself a man’.

The bus-rail hybrid was designed to service minor rail lines in Sydney that did not have enough passengers to justify the larger rail motor.

A group of men stand in front of the body of a newly constructed single-decker bus. The bus is pulled along the street by a small tractor while two men walk beside it.

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.

The Puffing Billy is a narrow gauge railway that runs between the towns of Belgrave and Emerald in the Dandenong Ranges of Victoria.