Talk:Trans-Australian Railway

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With [Moscow-Saint Petersburg railway] running in a straight line for about 650km (with its "Tsar's finger" section being recently straightened out, naming the Trans-Australian railway the longest piece of a straight track in the world with its 478km is probably a mistake. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 80.179.36.236 (talk) 22:58, August 24, 2007 (UTC)

The long straight on the Trans=Australian line is supposed to be a "dead" straight without any curves at all.

Conspicuous by its absence in the BBC report about the straightening of the Moscow to St. Petersburg line is any claim to be the longest straight in the World. It may well be that this line looks pretty straight on a map, but in practice contains slight but noticable curves when you travel on it. The claim to be longest straight therefore needs verification. 19:06, 1 January 2008 User:Tabletop (talk)

To make things hard, Moscow-Saint Petersburg Railway does not have a list of intermediate stations whose maps can be read.

This Map is too small. Tabletop (talk) 10:59, 1 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

The TAR straight starts at the 797km between Ooldea and Watson and terminates at the 1275km between Loongana and Nurina, a distance of 478km.

Tabletop (talk) 21:43, 1 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Have removed reference to the Moscow - St Petersburg Railway. An examination of any map will show that (even with the "Tsar's finger" removed) no part of that line consists of anything even close to the Trans's 478 km of dead-straight track. -- Picapica (talk) 11:22, 4 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks - hopefully that is now resolved Satu Suro 11:26, 4 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Longest Straight

See [1]

Tabletop (talk) 02:24, 3 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Spelling

First I was removing the e at the end of arguably, and then reading the information above - I would suggest that further refs would be needed to substantiate the nature of the russian line - just one or two refs seem inadequate for such a claim - imho Satu Suro 13:32, 28 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Stopping places/towns/localities

Somewhere there is a need for a thorough list of stopping places - most of them now ghost localities - Satu Suro 05:52, 27 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Done - List of localities, and stopping places related to the Trans Australian railway line Satu Suro 00:34, 24 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

NAMED SERVICES

the article states that the trans Australian ceased operations on the introduction of the Indian-pacific. this IS NOT correct both ran on alternating services on the Trans-Australian route. I travelled both services in 1986, at the time a QR station ops employee, doing long distance rail booking including assisting with a few reservations on the services in question.

Status Discontinued Locale Australia First service 1917 Last service June 1991 Former operator(s) Commonwealth Railways (1917–1975) Australian National (1975–1991) Western Australian Government Railways (1969–1991) Route Start Port Augusta / Port Pirie / Adelaide End Kalgoorlie / Perth Line used Trans-Australian Railway

Pga1965 (talk) 20:49, 29 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Intermediate stations

Proposed merging of east–west rail corridor, Australia into Trans-Australian Railway

I can't see how the "east–west rail corridor" is essentially different from Trans-Australian Railway. This article has existed since 2005, while the other one is a stub created in 2008.

Please discuss at Talk:East–west rail corridor, Australia.

Grant | Talk 06:50, 19 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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