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The Sydney-Brisbane railway corridor is a standard gauge railway corridor that runs between the state capitals of Brisbane and Sydney in Australia.[1] The CountryLink XPT passenger service operates along the route, as do a number of other freight and passenger services. Originally made up of the Queensland Rail narrow gauge and the New South Wales Government Railways standard gauge lines that met at Wallagarra at a break-of-gauge in 1888. It was not until 1930 that the North Coast railway line was extended to Brisbane making though services possible,[2][3] using a rail ferry for the river crossing in Grafton in New South Wales, until a bridge was opened in 1932.[4]
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