– was opened by the AustralAsia Rail Corporation with assistance from the Australian Government and the governments of South Australia and the Northern Territory. The Northern Territory expected that the line would open up mining ventures that would otherwise be uneconomic without a heavy duty rail line.See Rail transport in Australia for current Australian Government rail funding.Single regulator In 2009, it was proposed to combine the seven separate state rail regulators into a single regulator. See also History of rail transport by country Rail transport in Australia References Further reading Brown, Sid. "Tracks Across the State". Newsrail (Australian Railway Historical Society (Victorian Division)) (March 1990). 18 (3): 71–76. Carroll, Brian. Australia's Railway Days: Milestones in Railway History (Macmillan Company of Australia, 1977). Hearn, Mark. Working Lives: A History of the Australian Railways Union (NSW Branch) (Sydney: Hale & Iremonger, 1990). Lee, Robert. "A Fractious Federation: Patterns in Australian Railway Historiography." Mobility in History 4#1 (2013): 149–158. Rowe, Denis. "The Robust Navvy: The Railway Construction Worker in Northern New South Wales, 1854–1894." Labour History (1980): 28–46. in JSTOR Taksa, Lucy. "'About as popular as a dose of clap': Steam, diesel and masculinity at the New South Wales Eveleigh railway workshops." The Journal of Transport History 26#2 (2005): 79–97. Testro, Ron. A Pictorial History of Australian Railways (Lansdowne Press, 1971) Wills-Johnson, Nick. "Competition Policy and Railway Investment in Australia." Planning and Transport Research Centre Working Paper 12 (2007). online Wotherspoon, Garry. "The determinants of the pattern and pace of railway development in New South Wales, 1850–1914." Australian Journal of Politics & History'' 25.1 (1979): 51–65. External links John L. Buckland collection of railway transport photographs / National Library collection that covers all aspects of Australian railway history A history of the Australian railway / Covers several aspects of railway development in Australia, with nice images