By Tim Fischer
From a educate fanatic and previous deputy top minister of Australia comes this own consultant to the good transcontinental railways of the realm. Trainspotters will benefit from the facts, charts, and technical necessities which are interspersed all through colourful shuttle anecdotes and railway histories.
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It is a narrow gauge [sic] to the frontier and a broader gauge thence to Melbourne. One or two reasons are given for this curious state of things. One is that it represents the jealousy existing between the two colonies—the two most important colonies of Australasia. What the other is I have forgotten, it could be but another effort to explain the inexplicable. 11 12 Transcontinental Train odyssey It was at Albury on the New South Wales–Victoria border that the New South Wales standard gauge first met the Victorian Irish broad gauge with a very long platform in between.
For Prime Minister John Curtin, who received MacArthur in Canberra, the general’s many train changes would have been a sharp reminder of the great inefficiencies created by the breaks of gauge. After the war, public works priorities turned to other projects such as the construction of the massive Snowy Mountains Hydroelectric Scheme. However, there was renewed talk of a rail project from Townsville to Darwin and the idea of a standard gauge link from South Australia through to Alice Springs hadn’t disappeared.
The intrigue and deception of this film is something the operator of the Adelaide to Darwin Ghan will, no doubt, not want replicated on their train. At last I reached a knoll that was about to be cut in half to allow the track to climb steadily out of the Alice Springs to Barrow Creek. Away in the distance to the south could be glimpsed Heavitree Gap, which forms both a natural channel for the Todd River and a path of travel used long before European settlement. As I walked along I encountered, fluttering in the light breeze, bright pink tape pointing the way for the graders, not unlike the prayer flags found along trekking routes in Bhutan and Nepal.