Freight Trains at Two Wells - Australian Trains, South Australia

Rail traffic through Two Wells on the Adelaide - Crystal Brook standard guage line.
Video includes The Indian Pacific which is a twice-weekly passenger rail service running between Perth and Sydney, Australia. The train first ran in 1970 after the completion of gauge conversion projects in Western and South Australia.
The first Indian Pacific service left Sydney on 23 February 1970, the first direct train across the Australian continent,[2] made possible by the completion of a east-west standard gauge route a few months earlier.

The train originally took 75 hours and operated four days per week, departing Sydney on Monday, Wednesday, Thursday and Saturday, and departing Perth on Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday and Sunday.

The service was originally operated jointly by the New South Wales Government Railways, South Australian Railways, Commonwealth Railways and Western Australian Government Railways. The stainless steel carriages, purpose-built for the train by Comeng, were owned by the Commonwealth Railways with a proportion of the maintenance paid by the New South Wales, South Australian and Western Australian state governments. The carriages were branded "Railways of Australia" to avoid having to name the four different railway systems.

Locomotives and crews were provided by the New South Wales Government Railways between Sydney and Broken Hill, the South Australian Railways between Broken Hill and Port Pirie, the Commonwealth Railways between Port Pirie and Kalgoorlie and Western Australian Government Railways between Kalgoorlie and Perth. With the formation of the Australian National Railways in 1975, it provided locomotives and crews from Broken Hill to Kalgoorlie.

On board crews were originally provided by WAGR between Perth and Kalgoorlie, and CR between Kalgoorlie and Port Pirie. Port Pirie to Sydney (and return) were manned by CR/AN crews once per week and NSW crews on the remaining services, reflecting the proportion of the route worked by the two systems.

The service was suspended from 2 December 1982 to 25 April 1983 due to an industrial dispute over staffing levels in South Australia.[3]

From 1983 the train ran via Adelaide (see Route below).

In 1994 the operation of the train was absorbed wholly into the Australian National Railways which provided locomotives for the entire journey. The carriages were rebranded as "Australian National".

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[degust01]

nice vid.....looks pretty hot out there.....grt from belgium..