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✓ Published: 15-May-2013
✓ Published: 15-May-2013
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A video made at Marree in the outback of South Australia on a very hot day in December 1982 during the time when the old Central Australia Railway was being pulled up.nA percentage of recovered rail from the old narrow gauge line was transferred directly from narrow gauge recovery trains to standard gauge trains.nThe narrow gauge train and the standard gauge trains were coupled together and rails were transferred by running the resulting dual gauge train back and forwards thus dragging the rails
A video made at Marree in the outback of South Australia on a very hot day in December 1982 during the time when the old Central Australia Railway was being pulled up.nA percentage of recovered rail from the old narrow gauge line was transferred directly from narrow gauge recovery trains to standard gauge trains.nThe narrow gauge train and the standard gauge trains were coupled together and rails were transferred by running the resulting dual gauge train back and forwards thus dragging the rails
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