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from Uniform Railway Gauge, Eric Harding, Lothian Publishing Co, Melbourne and Sydney, 1958. The left side train is on 3'6", the centre one on 5'3" and the right side one on std gauge. This scene is long gone. Posted here for the railfan forum site, www.railpage.com.au.
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 SV1XV
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Latomeion Jung 43

Same situation in Volos, Greece, back then.

Standard gauge Larissa-Volos for SEK freight, metre gauge for Thessaly Railways passenger and regional freight, 600 mm for Pelion line. Many track sections were dual gauge, locally in Volos triple gauge !
7 years ago. Edited 7 years ago.
GrahamH club has replied to SV1XV club
Interesting. I looked at a map. It seems a lot of gauge changing in a short distance. Was there a lot of freight transhipment/passengers crossing platforms or did they operate mostly separately?
7 years ago.
 GrahamH
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I've never been to the Port Pirie but I did see the triple gauge yard at Peterborough, South Australia. For a few years in the early 70s it had the 5'3" line from the state capital, a 3'6" line to further West and the then newly constructed Std gauge line joining the SG from Broken Hill in my then home state,New South Wales, and the SG from Port Augusta to Perth, Western Australia. I remember various combinations of dual gauge around the yard. The only triple gauge tracks I recall were in the loco depot area. (previously there had been 3'6" through Peterborough from Broken Hill to Port Pirie).

goo.gl/maps/ZPLopuQ45iJ2

I've also had to change trains, as a child (50s & early 60s) at Albury, and at Marree in 1979.

goo.gl/maps/8zBNN1XCp3R2

goo.gl/maps/GwYMEjcFECF2

This article, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rail_gauge_in_Australia , about Australia's railway systems will save me much writing. also infrastructure.gov.au/rail/trains/history.aspx
7 years ago. Edited 7 years ago.

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