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Broadmeadow Railway Station is the busiest railway station in the Newcastle metropolitan area. It lies on the main northern line from Sydney to Brisbane. The train pictured here pulling into the station is an Xplorer, and these have been running for 30 years pulling Countrylink trains to regional New South Wales. This Countrylink service is heading to Armidale and Moree. The five carriage train separates into two services at junction at Werris Creek, with the first three carriages proceding to Armidale and the rear two to Moree.
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There are no kangaroos in Austria. We're talking about Australia, the world's smallest continent. That being cleared up, let's dive right in! Australia is a sovereign state under the Commonwealth of Nations, which is in turn overseen by Queen Elizabeth the Second, by the Grace of God, Queen of Australia and Her other Realms and Territories, Head of the Commonwealth. The continent was first sighted and charted by the Dutch in 1606. Captain James Cook of Britain came along in the next century to claim it for Britain and name it "New South Wales." Shortly thereafter it was declared to be a penal colony full of nothing but criminals and convicts, giving it the crap reputation you may have heard at your last cocktail party. This rumor ignores 40,000 years of pre-European human history, especially the Aboriginal concept of Dreamtime, an interesting explanation of physical and spiritual reality. The two biggest cities in Australia are Sydney and Melbourne. Sydney is more for business, Melbourne for arts. But that's painting in very broad strokes. Take a whirl around the panoramas to see for yourself! Text by Steve Smith.
