Tim Fischers book cover this in detail. Victoria was first with heavy rail, NSW did a back flip,and left Victoria stranded. Perfect example of politicians screwing things up.
NSW was first mate with the aaco coal mine in Newcastle which was built before Melbourne was even conceived. As for passenger rail Victoria's first railway was a very short 4km vs 20km's for what is now the main surburban line in Sydney. Most of that 4km rail line is now tramway. NSW started constructioin 5 years before Victoria did.
Puffing Billy is the only Narrow Gauge Tourist railway in Victoria, I'm also pretty sure that it is the 2nd railway in the world to be run by volunteers. Yes it can be considered to be part of Victorian Railways history, as it was once owned and operation by Victorian Railways.
save money on the building and spend more opertional, do it right and convirt everything to standard gauge, some lines here in the us were converted with very little lost time, but government was not the ownerthe faster the conversion the more money saved/made
I don’t think that’s going to happen, and it’s not really such a great idea to be honest… Broad gauge is as fine as it is, why bother changing it? I mean, we don’t really need standard gauge all that much. Besides, the current state government and its predecessors didn’t do so well (other than the Hamer government, which did the standard gauge line extension from Albury to Melbourne) at gauge conversion, so why bother ruining the rail network even further?
Great work - Thankyou. As a history lesson; the different gauges was by design from colonial days. NSW thought Vic might invade by using trains full of army men and vice versa. It also had to do with collecting taxes across borders until Federation in 1901. Well-done on the vid. Cheers.
Tim Fischers book cover this in detail. Victoria was first with heavy rail, NSW did a back flip,and left Victoria stranded. Perfect example of politicians screwing things up.
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NSW was first mate with the aaco coal mine in Newcastle which was built before Melbourne was even conceived. As for passenger rail Victoria's first railway was a very short 4km vs 20km's for what is now the main surburban line in Sydney. Most of that 4km rail line is now tramway. NSW started constructioin 5 years before Victoria did.
@@carisi2k11 Good grief, an incline mine railway does not count when talking about state rail gauge.
I think total conversion to standard gauge is actually rather likely provider their is long term planning behind it.
Thank you !
what's the deal with Puffing Billy? was it only ever a tourist line, or can it be considered a part of Victoria's rail gauge history?
Puffing Billy is the only Narrow Gauge Tourist railway in Victoria, I'm also pretty sure that it is the 2nd railway in the world to be run by volunteers. Yes it can be considered to be part of Victorian Railways history, as it was once owned and operation by Victorian Railways.
Good job.
save money on the building and spend more opertional, do it right and convirt everything to standard gauge, some lines here in the us were converted with very little lost time, but government was not the ownerthe faster the conversion the more money saved/made
There is no real advantage in a broad track gauge, convert it all to standard.
I don’t think that’s going to happen, and it’s not really such a great idea to be honest…
Broad gauge is as fine as it is, why bother changing it? I mean, we don’t really need standard gauge all that much.
Besides, the current state government and its predecessors didn’t do so well (other than the Hamer government, which did the standard gauge line extension from Albury to Melbourne) at gauge conversion, so why bother ruining the rail network even further?
@@nickstransportvlogs As I said, there is no advantage in broad gauge.
As for poor conversions, well that is a different matter altogether.
Great work - Thankyou. As a history lesson; the different gauges was by design from colonial days. NSW thought Vic might invade by using trains full of army men and vice versa. It also had to do with collecting taxes across borders until Federation in 1901. Well-done on the vid. Cheers.
Thx
Rubbish.
A lot of not quite correct information here.
Comes across like a badly researched school report.
@@martythemartian99 Yeah it's old, I might remake it. Hadn't refined the video making process back then
@@VictorianTransportHistory I will watch. Looking forward to it.👍