New Standard Gauge Railway Links Marree And Port Augusta. Australian Diary 103.

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.

[@jessesands4099]

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!🙂🛤️🚂🚆🚇🚃🚃🚃🚃🚃🏜️🐪🦅🇦🇺

[@valeryburakshaev4659]

Thank you for the video

[@NFSAFilms]

You're welcome

[@samuelanketell8190]

Great old film 👌

[@benchurchill1939]

I love this video.

[@fordlandau]

Long abandoned and no more coal either !

[@MasterDownUnder]

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.

[@focusfolks]

That is fascinating... They'd just drive the narrower gauge train right up on top of the newer. Or were they craned up?

[@kguen6993]

Wooden Sleepers.....I wonder how long they lasted?

[@somerandomdude1552]

some still are there

[@simonf8902]

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]

You would've done it better!

[@thedave7760]

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?

[@tvaddictaus]

Music score?

[@serendigity]

That era - the only perceived ‘value’ of the land was to exploit it...