supplying some equipment. This continues today, with Downer Rail and UGL Rail the modern incarnations of Clyde and Goninan respectively. Milestones Note: Narrow gauge below is , standard gauge below is and broad gauge below is 1831 – New South Wales – Australian Agricultural Company's cast-iron fishbelly rail on an inclined plane as a gravitational railway servicing A Pit coal mine. 1837 – New South Wales – Australian Agricultural Company's cast-iron fishbelly rail on an inclined plane as a gravitational railway servicing B Pit coal mine. 1842 – New South Wales – Australian Agricultural Company's cast-iron fishbelly rail on an inclined plane as a gravitational railway servicing C Pit coal mine. 1854 – South Australia – (horse-drawn line) Goolwa to Port Elliot 1854 – Victoria – First steam powered railway from Melbourne to Sandridge (Port Melbourne). 1855 – New South Wales – standard gauge steam powered railway from Sydney to Parramatta opened. 1856 – South Australia – broad gauge Adelaide to Port Adelaide railway opened 1865 – Queensland – narrow gauge Ipswich to Bigges Camp (renamed Grandchester in honour of occasion) on the way to Toowoomba railway opened, first narrow gauge main line in the world. 1871 – Tasmania – Deloraine to Launceston railway opened as broad gauge, converted to narrow gauge in 1888 1879 – Western Australia – narrow gauge Geraldton to Northampton railway opened 1883 – Railways of New South Wales and Victoria meet at Albury 1887 – Railways of Victoria and South Australia meet at Serviceton 1888 – Railways of New South Wales and Queensland meet at Wallangara 1889 – Western Australia's first land grant railway opened, the narrow gauge Great Southern Railway, completed from Beverley to Albany, linking Perth to the colony's only deep-water port 1889 – Northern Territory – narrow gauge Darwin to Pine Creek railway opened 1891 – Western Australia – first sections of narrow gauge privately funded land grant Midland Railway opened, completed from Midland Junction to Walkaway in 1894. 1915 – Standard gauge Canberra to Queanbeyan railway opened 1917 – Standard gauge Trans-Australian Railway completed between Kalgoorlie and Port Augusta 1919 – Railways of New South Wales and South Australia meet at Broken Hill with break-of-gauge 1919 – First electric suburban trains run in Melbourne 1924 – Final section of North Coast line opens, linking Cairns to the rest of the Australian railway system 1925 – Great White Train is created to