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	Rail
		Reclassified as a tug (AT-139) on 1 June 1942, Rail remained in the Hawaiian area, serving on ASW patrol and conducting experimental minesweeping operations in addition to completing salvage and towing assignments.
		In October she visited Cairns, Australia, then resumed operations along the New Guinea coast, in the Admiralties, and, in November, in the Halmaheras.
		Decommissioned on 29 April 1946, Rail was transferred to the Maritime Commission for disposal on 17 January 1947.
	www.history.navy.mil /danfs/r2/rail-i.htm (1122 words)

	Transport - Papua New Guinea - Australia railways 19th Century & 1914 on ...
		But the relationship was more pronounced in Australia where the desire to conquer the tyranny of distance across a vast dry continent brought railways to a level of dominance in government, the economy and social relations unmatched elsewhere.
		Through her railways, Australia created the modern public corporation, which came into existence not to control capitalism, but to provide the basic transport infrastructure necessary for more profitable forms of investment.
		In 1917, rail was purchased for a railway on the wharf.
	www.pngbuai.com /300socialsciences/transport/railaust19c1.html (3934 words)

	A History of Australian Road and Rail
		While transport remained largely a state responsibility, Australia's constitution made it possible for the new Commonwealth Government to play an important role in funding roads, settling priorities, regulating interstate transport, and the development of arrangements to recover the cost of road and rail development.
		A significant change in the rail network occurred when the line between Port Augusta and Port Pirie, originally narrow gauge as part of the narrow gauge line to Alice Springs was converted to broad gauge.
		Thus ownership of the mainline rail network in Australia had come full circle: from private ownership in the mid 1800s, through to government ownership, and then to management by a private company at the turn of the 21st century.
	www.auslink.gov.au /publications/reports/history.aspx (3158 words)

	Rail World Inc History
		Tranz Rail was floated on the New Zealand stock market in 1996 and was consistently profitable during Mr.
		Australia was the location of a further strategic acquisition, in the state of Tasmania, where the network of just below 900 km was acquired in late 1997.
		Australian Transport Network (ATN) was formed to make the acquisition and to invest in further transportation opportunities on the Australian mainland.
	railworld-inc.com /history.htm (525 words)

	History of transport (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
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	history-of-transport.znzh.com (2519 words)

	History of Rail in Australia
		AUSTRALIA'S first rail systems were mostly built when the country consisted of sparsely settled colonies, before they combined to form a Federation of States in 1900.
		The initial purpose of the rail development was to connect the hinterland with the major export seaports which, in most cases, were the capital cities.
		South Australia: While South Australia had a horse-drawn railway operating at the mouth of the Murray River in 1854, the first line carrying steam powered trains opened on 21 April 1856 between Adelaide and Port Adelaide.
	www.dotars.gov.au /rail/trains/history.aspx (1000 words)

	Transport Blog is back \| Samizdata.net
		Transport Blog is up and running again, and I have agreed once again to write bits for it, now and again.
		Bloggers everywhere have the occasional moan about transport, and often also have stories to tell about how transport was good in one way or another, or about how it may soon be very exciting.
		Transport Blog will, just as it did first time around, find a quite distinct readership to that which reads things like Samizdata.
	www.samizdata.net /blog/archives/2006/10/transport_blog.html (640 words)

	History of rail transport information - Search.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The history of rail transport dates back nearly 500 years, and includes systems with man or horse power and rails of wood or stone.
		Their function in most cases was to facilitate the transport of coal from the pits to a staith on the river bank, whence coal could be taken by water.
		Placing a horse car on rails had enabled a horse to move twice as many people, and so street railways were born.
	www.search.com /reference/History_of_rail_transport (1348 words)

	Rail Heritage WA
		The Rail Transport Museum at Bassendean, Perth Western Australia is Western Australia's premier museum devoted to railway history.
		The Society ran rail tours to raise funds and in 1969 serious work commenced to develop a museum to display the collection of locomotives, rollingstock and items of railway memorabilia that had been collected over the years.
		You are welcome to assist in the preservation of the unique rail heritage of Western Australia by becoming a member of the society.
	www.railheritagewa.org.au /museum/museum.htm (867 words)

	RailCorp \| Home
		RailCorp, a merger of the State Rail Authority of NSW and the metropolitan functions of the Railway Infrastructure Corporation was officially formed on 1 January 2004.
		Part of the wide-ranging reform of the NSW public transport sector, the establishment of RailCorp was aimed at delivering single point of accountability across the railways.
		RailCorp provides passenger rail transport throughout NSW via its CityRail and CountryLink services and is responsible for the safe operation, crewing and maintenance of passenger trains and stations.
	www.railcorp.info (167 words)

	Railways in Australia and Great Train Journeys - Stories from Australia's Culture and Recreation Portal
		Australia's first trains began operating in 1854, when the country was still a group of separate colonies.
		When railway construction began in Australia in the 1850s, the engineers favoured the gauge system they were most familiar with: the emerging standard gauge (rails 1,425 millimetres apart) from England and Europe or the broad gauge (rails 1,590 millimetres apart) from Ireland.
		A train route crossing Australia from north to south was noted in the 1870s as an important facility to improve trade and communications with Darwin and, in turn, with Asia and Europe, but it took over a century for it to be completed.
	www.cultureandrecreation.gov.au /articles/railways (1345 words)

	ipedia.com: Rail transport modelling Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Rail transport Operations Stations Trains Rolling stock History Terminology By country Modelling [ Edit this box] Model railroading or Railway modelling is the hobby in which are models of rail transp...
		If the railway companies of the past could have implemented a ‘Star Trek’ method of transporting passengers and goods instantly from A to B they would quickly have abandoned the use of trains, which was always an expensive method of transport.
		They would never have used more locomotives or coaches than was essential to maintain their traffic, and certainly they would never have built and maintained ‘interesting’ and complex track formations, which were notoriously expensive, without first making every effort to simplify them.
	www.ipedia.com /rail_transport_modelling.html (2321 words)

	Adventurous New Ways to Travel by Rail
		Rail riding has also become extremely affordable because many countries have developed their infrastructures, thus allowing access to parts of the world that were nearly impossible to reach in the past.
		Although it may take longer to go by rail, taking a train, as opposed to a plane, can be very rewarding, not to mention it becomes part of the trip.
		This is considered by many to be the original and classic Great Rail journey because it crosses the world's largest country and is the world's longest railway.
	www.gonomad.com /transports/0404/railwaytravel.html (1316 words)

	Rail safety - DPI - NT Government - Australia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		To develop, implement, monitor and continuously improve a rail safety administration and regulation regime promoting safe railway ownership and operations in the Territory.
		The Rail Safety Unit was created in February 1999 as a response to the rapidly changing regulatory environment in Australia.
		In order to enhance the effectiveness and efficiency of the national rail safety regulatory system, an extensive program of national rail safety reform was launched in 2002/03.
	www.ipe.nt.gov.au /whatwedo/railsafety (320 words)

	Rail transport modelling Summary
		Even as transportation improvements accelerated through the twentieth century, the railroad still best symbolized the ability of mechanized invention to conquer distance; electric trains continue to epitomize this cultural belief in such technological progress.
		As model accuracy became more important some model systems adopted two rail power where the wheels were isolated from each other and the two rails carried the positive and negative supply or the two sides of the AC supply.
		Although DC power with the positive and negative charges on the two rails is the most common method of power, Märklin and Lionel use AC power on the three rail system.
	www.bookrags.com /Rail_transport_modelling (2796 words)

	National Railway Museum Port Adelaide - Rail History
		South Australia is the youngest colony in the nation, and the only one which resulted from extensive planning prior to settlement.
		This was the first railway to be laid with iron rails in Australia and was opened on 18 May 1854.
		From 1906, cheaply constructed rail lines were pushed throughout the Murray Lands and from 1907 on Eyre Peninsula, purely to encourage agricultural settlement.
	www.natrailmuseum.org.au /common/nrm_a01_index.html (2112 words)

	History of the United States Postal Service 1775-1993
		History proved differently, but this experiment with missile mail exemplifies the pioneering spirit of the Post Office Department when it came to developing faster, better ways of moving the mail.
		Despite the growing transport accessibility offered by the airlines, the Post Office Department in 1930 still moved the bulk of its domestic mail by rail, massing, re-sorting, and redistributing it for long distance hauling through the major railroad hubs of the nation.
		The Post Office had recognized some years back that new avenues of transportation would open to the Department and began to establish focal points for air, highway, and rail transportation.
	www.usps.com /history/history/his2_75.htm (1020 words)

	RailPage Australia
		In Western Australia, trams ran in Perth (1899 - 1958), Kalgoorlie (1902 - 1952), Fremantle (1905 - 1952), and briefly in Leonora.
		Darjeeling Himalayan Railway Society (Australia) - In 1994, when it became apparent that the DHR could close in the near future, a member of an old Darjeeling family, long resident in Canada, with a deep commitment to preserving the best of the past, formed the Darjeeling Himalayan Railway Heritage Foundation (DHRHF).
		Australian Rail Track Corporation Ltd (ARTC) has welcomed today's announcement by the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) that the voluntary Access Undertaking it has given, for that part of the interstate rail network under its control, has been approved.
	www.railpage.org.au (1141 words)

	World History Compass, Australian and New Zealand History
		A transcription of all of Lachlan Macquarie's journals describing his tours of inspection in Australia entitled: Lachlan Macquarie Governor of New South Wales; Journals of his Tours in New South Wales and Van Diemen's Land 1810 -1822.
		Situated in Sydney, the Parliament of New South Wales is the oldest Parliament in Australia.
		History of the industrial labour movement in New Zealand.
	www.worldhistorycompass.com /austral.htm (579 words)

	History Trains and Railroads Recreation
		Narrow gauge light railways were the primary method of transporting supplies to the front lines.
		Stations are organized alphabetically and in 1954 subdivision, with a short history.
		A history of American railroads in the 19th century.
	www.iaswww.com /ODP/Recreation/Trains_and_Railroads/History (863 words)

	ATAHISTORY
		The Air Transport Auxiliary began with an idea: In 1938, Gerard d'Erlanger, director of British Airways, foresaw a problem: An inevitable war with Germany would lead not only to the suspension of many overseas routes, but also to the impounding of civil aircraft by the British government.
		This was the first time in history (in England, or anywhere else in the world) that women would be officially employed in ferrying military aircraft, and, despite almost overwhelming hardships of that first winter, they would do a sterling job of it.
		The ATA acquired several planes to transport ferry pilots to the factories or maintenance units to pick up their planes, then collect them at their destinations.
	www.airtransportaux.org /history.html (6014 words)

	Public transport - City Loop history (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The Melbourne Underground Rail Loop Authority (MURLA) was established under this act to build the Loop.
		Originally there was to be a trilogy of films, one at the start of construction, one during construction and a final one when the project was completed.
		However, when the Melbourne Underground Rail Loop Authority was scaled back at the end of the project, the third film was never completed.
	www.doi.vic.gov.au /DOI/Internet/transport.nsf/AllDocs/74164766E0CEAF95CA25700500122952?OpenDocument (1313 words)

	Association of Railway Enthusiasts
		Our aim is to foster an awareness of the part played by our rail transport in everyday life as well as to facilitate the interchange of information between people interested in the operation and development of our railways and tram ways.
		These give participants the opportunity to examine parts of history associated with the development of Victoria, as well as enjoy the company of other enthusiasts in what is usually country travel.
		These are also available by mail order, giving members outside Melbourne the opportunity to enjoy a further facet of their hobby in the comfort of their lounge.
	www.steamengine.com.au /railways/are (734 words)

	City Mayors: Light rail transport - UK
		In its report, issued on 5 April 2005, the committee argued that the government’s use of such contracts had the effect that ‘operators have been left to bear all of the revenue risks, and have built risk premia into their bids’.
		Since 1980 the Department for Transport has contributed £1.2 billion ($2.16bn) to the £2.3 billion ($4.14bn) that has been spent on building seven light rail systems in England.
		The number of light rail systems in England’s cities is comparatively small compared to continental Europe due to its local government system not allowing cities the ability to borrow or take risks on such schemes.
	www.citymayors.com /transport/light_rail.html (1061 words)

	State favours freeways over rail, trams: expert - National - theage.com.au
		Professor Bill Russell said the Government had not lived up to its public transport promises, and was showing a clear preference for road over rail.
		He said all states except Victoria were committed to major new rail projects but "we, for a variety of reasons, have a very, very low level of investment".
		Transport Minister Peter Batchelor said the Bracks Government had, since 1999, allocated $3 billion in road funding, and $3 billion for new public transport projects.
	www.theage.com.au /articles/2005/11/04/1130823405948.html (418 words)

	EPA-International Best Practices & Innovations-Urban Management,
		European Local Transport Information Service (ELTIS) is an initiative of the European Commission's Directorate General for Energy and Transport, Clean Transport Unit that aims to support a practical transfer of knowledge and exchange of experience in the field of urban and regional transport in Europe.
		In 1999, Transport Canada released the federal government's plan to stimulate the development and deployment of intelligent transportation systems in Canada.
		The ECMT is an intergovernmental organization in which transport ministers openly discuss transport problems and agree upon joint approaches aimed at improving the utilization and rational development of European transport systems.
	www.epa.gov /innovation/international/transportation.htm (3012 words)

	Transport - australia.gov.au
		The Australian Transport Council (ATC) is a Ministerial forum for Australian, State and Territory consultations and advice to governments on the coordination and integration of all transport and road policy issues at a national level.
		The Bureau of Transport and Regional Economics (BTRE) operates within the Department of Transport and Regional Services to provide information and analysis for the Government and the community, improving the understanding of the economic factors influencing the transport sector and regional Australia.
		The Australian Department of Transport and Regional Services deals with land transport, including road safety; civil aviation and air navigation; aviation security; delivery of regional and rural specific services; maritime transport, including shipping; investigation of aviation and maritime accidents and incidents; regional development; matters relating to local government and administration of Australia's external territories.
	www.australia.gov.au /179 (387 words)

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