From the Film Australia Collection. Made by the National Film Board 1958. Directed by Jack S Allan. Construction of a new standard rail gauge of 4 feet, 8 1/2 inches provides a rail link from Maree to Port Augusta.
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@samuelanketell81902 жыл бұрын
Great old film 👌
@jessesands40993 жыл бұрын
After This New Standard Gauge Line Between Port Augusta And Marree Opened in 1956 The Town's Of Quorn And Hawker Were isolated on the Narrow Gauge!🙂🛤️🚂🚆🚇🚃🚃🚃🚃🚃🏜️🐪🦅🇦🇺
@benchurchill19392 жыл бұрын
I love this video.
@valeryburakshaev46593 жыл бұрын
Thank you for the video
@NFSAFilms3 жыл бұрын
You're welcome
@fordlandau6 жыл бұрын
Long abandoned and no more coal either !
@MasterDownUnder Жыл бұрын
there is plenty of coal. But when a previous government got carried away with their need to shut down real power production facilities, they closed the mine and shut down the power station at Port Augusta, thus removing one third of South Australia's power production, and replacing it with still not really effective "renewable" energy sources. Such is life, and "progress" and at the expense of reality is no progress at all.
@kguen69936 жыл бұрын
Wooden Sleepers.....I wonder how long they lasted?
@somerandomdude15525 жыл бұрын
some still are there
@focusfolks Жыл бұрын
That is fascinating... They'd just drive the narrower gauge train right up on top of the newer. Or were they craned up?
@tvaddictaus Жыл бұрын
Music score?
@simonf89023 жыл бұрын
Wonderful creation of the Commonwealth. They never got it beyond Maree. Then this triumph was bypassed in the 80s. The Leigh creek coalfield is long obsolete. Hurray Commonwealth planners.
@focusfolks Жыл бұрын
You would've done it better!
@thedave7760 Жыл бұрын
So what it served it's purpose and delivered the coal, thats what it was built to do, it is no longer needed would you rather they had not built it to provide energy for a growing state?
@serendigity3 жыл бұрын
That era - the only perceived ‘value’ of the land was to exploit it...