North Australia Railway

North Australia Railway
Excerpt from a 1960s Commonwealth Railways map showing the North Australia Railway (click to enlarge)
Technical
Line length	509 km (316 mi)
Track gauge	1,067 mm (3 ft 6 in)
Route map Legend Stokes Hill Jetty Fort Hill Boom Jetty 0 mi Darwin (Palmerston) 0.7 mi Petrol Sidings Navy Sidings Parap (Vestey's Sidings) Parap Workshops (2 1/2 Mile) RAAF Siding Winnellie Knuckey's Lagoon McMinns Wishart Millar Firdan Elizabeth River 29 mi Noonamah Southport Darwin River Quarry Sidings Darwin River Beetson Kanyaka Rum Jungle 58 Mile Camp Batchelor Simms Ballast Sidings Stapleton Creek Snake Creek Depot Adelaide River North Adelaide River 77 mi Adelaide River Goodilla 88 Mile Bridge Creek Howley Brocks Creek Fountain Head 112 Mile Grove Hill Burrundie Spring Hill Boomleera Roney Lady Alice Camp Union Reefs Frances Creek 146 mi Pine Creek Cullen Cullen River Fergusson River Horseshoe Creek Edith River Edith River Helling 191 Mile Camp Emungalan Katherine River Evacuated Workshops 201 mi Katherine Katherine Workshops Katherine South Tindal Blain Maranboy Collings Mataranka Elsey Hobler Gorrie Larrimah Petrol Sidings 316 mi Birdum

The North Australia Railway was a 509 km (316 mi) 1,067 mm (3 ft 6 in) narrow gauge railway in the Northern Territory of Australia which ran from the territory capital of Darwin, once known as Palmerston, to Birdum, just south of Larrimah. Initially its name was the Palmerston and Pine Creek Railway. The first section was opened 1889, the last in 1929. The railway closed in 1976.