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2 unusual facts about Main Southern railway line


Main Southern railway line, New South Wales

The Burrinjuck Tramway was a 610 mm gauge line was built in about 1907 from Goondah (between Bowning and Binalong) to Burrinjuck for the construction of the Burrinjuck Dam and closed in 1929, following the completion of construction.

Mary Hughes

Their car crashed where the Sydney-Melbourne road crossed the Sydney-Melbourne railway north of Albury, leading to the crossing being named after Billy Hughes; it was later replaced by the Billy Hughes Bridge.


Cabramatta Creek

Major transport routes that cross the catchment includes Hoxton Park Road, Elizabeth Drive, Orange Grove Road (the Cumberland Highway), the Hume Highway and the Main Southern railway line.

Cootamundra Shire

The Shire is located adjacent to the Olympic Way, the Burley Griffin Way and the Main South railway line.

Goulburn railway station

The station buildings were opened in 1869 with arrival of the railway from Sydney, which was opened by the Governor Lord Belmore (an event commemorated by Belmore Park in the centre of the city), along with the completion of the line from Sydney to Albury in 1881 (and the connection with Victorian Railways in 1883), was a boom to the town.

Goulburn, New South Wales

Goulburn is a railhead on the Main Southern line and service centre for the surrounding pastoral industry and a stopover for those travelling on the Hume Highway.

Junee Shire

The Shire is located adjacent to the Olympic Way and the Main South railway line.

New South Wales 85 class locomotive

They also occasionally hauled coal services from Glenlee Colliery on the Main South line to Port Kembla and Rozelle.

New South Wales D55 class locomotive

The members of this class spent most of their days attached to depots at Enfield, Goulburn, Harden, Junee and Cowra operating on the Illawarra and Main South lines.

Southern Highlands Express

The Southern Highlands Express was an Australian passenger train operating on the Main South line in New South Wales from Sydney to Goulburn.


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