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Source : State Library South Australia menu collection
Date of creation : 1952
Format : Menu
Contributor : State Library of South Australia
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Luncheon menu issued by the Commonwealth Railways, 1952. Also includes information for passengers and "Facts about the Trans-Australian Railway." Includes picture of South Coast District (Western Australia).


The construction of the Trans Australian railway in 1917 linked the east and west sides of the country for the first time.
Port Augusta was the operating centre of the Commonwealth Railways. The industries and work which the railway provided in the town included washing of laundry, supply of fresh food such as meat and fish, as well as train crew, engineers, general tradesmen, and the Workshops located in Port Augusta where locomotive and rolling stock repairs were undertaken.
As this train service begins in Sydney and concludes in Perth the service has become known as the Indian Pacific reflecting the names of the two oceans on either side of the country.
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Commonwealth Railways (Australia) -- Menus

Railroads -- Australia -- Menus

Trans Australian railway
Coverage year : 1952
Period : 1946-1979
Place : Port Augusta
Region : Flinders Ranges and Far North - Outback
Further reading :

Historical souvenir of Port Augusta: sixty years of progress, 1876-1936: diamond jubilee and state centenary celebrations, June 27th-July 11th, 1936, [Port Augusta, S.A.: Port Augusta Diamond Jubilee and State Centenary Celebrations Committee, 1936] (see template in SA Memory) insert link to it.

Adam-Smith, Patsy, The desert railway , Adelaide: Rigby, 1974

Burke, David, Road through the wilderness: the story of the transcontinental railway, the first great work of Australia's federation , Kensington, N.S.W.: New South Wales University Press, 1991
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