Yelta would be the highest that is still Open - 364 = 585km.
Slight OT but what would have been or still is the farthest distance from Sydney in NSW?That would be Broken Hill. Crystal Street was listed as 699 miles from Sydney. Broken Hill is now listed at 1124.8 km.
Yelta would be the highest that is still Open - 364 = 585km
That would be Broken Hill. Crystal Street was listed as 699 miles from Sydney. Broken Hill is now listed at 1124.8 km.
This would be the figure for Broken Hill. What about the border with SA?
Wouldn't that be a South Australian mileage/kilometre rather than a NSW one?
For freight rating purposes Broken Hill was the border following the demise of the Silverton Tramway whose rates were entirely separate from those of the NSWGR and the SAR. Apart from actually looking at the 'milepost' at the border the only way of coming up with an actual border 'mileage' would be to find the Cockburn distance from Broken Hill and work from there.From the point of track ownership, NSW owns right up to the border. I would expect to see NSW kilometre posts all the way to the border.
I don't know what distances the mileposts on the old Peterborough Division display. Is it from Port Pirie or from Adelaide via the defunct route via Terowie (or something else). Distances on the NG north of Marree were always from Adelaide via Quorn right up to the end of the narrow gauge for example despite the route not having existed for well over 20 odd years.
From the point of track ownership, NSW owns right up to the border. I would expect to see NSW kilometre posts all the way to the border.
ARTC thinks the border is at 1126.640 km from Sydney, or 392.200 km from the zero point in SA at Coonamia (about 4 km from Port Pirie).
Would QLD have the longest distance from Brisbane... ?DavidThe longest distance from Brisbane on 3ft6in would be somewhere beyond Cloncurry and the longest distance from Brisbane on standard gauge would be beyond Broken Hill. But you would know that already so I am really wondering if you are asking a trick question....
The longest distance from Brisbane on 3ft6in would be somewhere beyond Cloncurry and the longest distance from Brisbane on standard gauge would be beyond Broken Hill. But you would know that already so I am really wondering if you are asking a trick question....No, not asking something I do not know. Would think the SG from Brisbane would end at the border, not that long. From Brisbane I assume not all distances are measured from it in QLD, ie from Brisbane to Forsayth is quite a distance.
No, not asking something I do not know. Would think the SG from Brisbane would end at the border, not that long. From Brisbane I assume not all distances are measured from it in QLD, ie from Brisbane to Forsayth is quite a distance.If dealing only in the numerals displayed on the track side posts (I reread the original post) then the mile post seen on Sth Brisbane Interstate Station was 613 which was NSWGR from Sydney. Someone can tell us what is displayed on the posts west of Toowoomba around Dalby and Roma etc as memory tells me distance from Toowoomba not Brisbane.
Regards, David Head
And if memory serves me correctly, wasnt Silverton Tramways a narrow gauge line the same as the SA railways so NSW would have owned and maintained where it was Standard Gauge no matter where it ended at that time with some arrangement being made where both gauges were combined.
In Broken Hill itself the Silverton NG and the NSWGR SG never actually meet!
The NG station was on (I think) Blende St. near Sulphide St. (Current site of the Rail Museum)
The NSWGR SG station was on Crystal Street. (Where it currently is).
So the two stations were about two blocks apart.
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