From a train enthusiast and former deputy prime minister of Australia comes this personal guide to the great transcontinental railways of the world. Trainspotters will enjoy the statistics, charts, and technical specifications that are interspersed throughout colorful travel anecdotes and railway histories.
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Tim Fischer is the former deputy prime minister of Australia and a train enthusiast. He is the author of The Boy from Boree Creek and Tim Fischer's Outback Heroes.
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first freight train, loading gauge, concrete sleepers, standard gauge, metre gauge, gauge system, broad gauge, crew cars, rail operators, gauge width, transcontinental railway, gauge track Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United States, Alice Springs, Port Augusta, New South Wales, Northern Territory, World War, Anglo Cape, South Australia, Great Britain, South America, Khyber Pass, Tennant Creek, South Africa, Buenos Aires, New York, New Zealand, United Kingdom, North America, Pichi Richi, San Francisco, Western Australia, Kuala Lumpur, Port Pirie, British Rail, Broken Hill New!
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first freight train, loading gauge, concrete sleepers, standard gauge, metre gauge, gauge system, broad gauge, crew cars, rail operators, gauge width, transcontinental railway, gauge track Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United States, Alice Springs, Port Augusta, New South Wales, Northern Territory, World War, Anglo Cape, South Australia, Great Britain, South America, Khyber Pass, Tennant Creek, South Africa, Buenos Aires, New York, New Zealand, United Kingdom, North America, Pichi Richi, San Francisco, Western Australia, Kuala Lumpur, Port Pirie, British Rail, Broken Hill New!
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