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The Adelaide – Darwin railway is a north – south transcontinental railway in Australia, between the cities of Adelaide, South Australia and Darwin, Northern Territory.
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In Australia, the grounds currently used are The Gabba in Brisbane ( first staged an England – Australia Test in the 1932 – 33 season ), Adelaide Oval ( 1884 – 85 ), The WACA, Perth ( 1970 – 71 ) the Melbourne Cricket Ground ( MCG ) ( 1876 – 77 ) and the Sydney Cricket Ground ( SCG ) ( 1881 – 82 ).
Saint Adelaide of Italy ( 931 / 932 – 16 December 999 ), also called Adelaide of Burgundy, was the second wife of Otto the Great, Holy Roman Emperor.
* 1948 – Taman Shud Case: The body of an unidentified man is found in Adelaide, Australia ; involving an undetectable poison and a secret code in a very rare book, the case remains unsolved and is " one of Australia's most profound mysteries ".
He also fell out publicly with other players, including fellow England opener Geoff Boycott, Somerset captain Peter Roebuck, and Australian batsman Ian Chappell, with whom he had an altercation in an Adelaide Oval car park during the 2010 – 11 Ashes series.
* 1831 – William IV and Adelaide of Saxe-Meiningen are crowned King and Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.
*** Fringe festival – unjuried festivals, such as the Edinburgh Festival Fringe and Adelaide Fringe Festival, permit artists to produce a wide variety of works.
An Australian tour 2010 – 2011 is being performed in Sydney, Melbourne, Perth, Brisbane and Adelaide.
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However, the Demons made a comeback when they narrowly defeated Port Adelaide by one point, at a home game in Darwin.
The industry began on the Adelaide River, close to Darwin, and moved east to the Mary River and Alligator Rivers regions.
They have mostly either been replaced by day trains ( such as The Overland between Adelaide and Melbourne )-sometimes medium-speed day trains ( such as the CountryLink XPT between Melbourne and Sydney )-or else they have remained, but been refurbished with the intention of attracting tourists for whom the train trip is itself an attraction, instead of being a functional means of transport ( such as The Ghan, running between Adelaide and Darwin, and the Indian Pacific, running between Sydney and Perth ).
The new service initially covered Brisbane, Adelaide, Perth and Darwin, while original stations 2EA and 3EA were renamed Radio Sydney and Radio Melbourne, respectively.
Nine is broadcast in metropolitan areas via Nine Network owned-and-operated stations, including TCN Sydney, GTV Melbourne, QTQ Brisbane and NTD Darwin, and by affiliate Channel Nine stations NWS Adelaide and STW Perth.
Alice averages above sea level ; the town is nearly equidistant from Adelaide, South Australia and Darwin.
Despite their size, other smaller cities including Canberra, Darwin, Townsville, Cairns, Newcastle, Adelaide and Geelong have begun building apartments in the 2000s.
The first site, as chosen by Boyle Finniss at Escape Cliffs near the mouth of the Adelaide River, on the coast of Adam Bay on the western side of the Cape Hotham peninsula in 1864, was abandoned in 1867 and a second laid out by Surveyor-General George Goyder near Port Darwin in 1869.
The station is broadcast on 104. 1 Darwin and Palmerston and 98. 7 Alice Springs and can also be heard in Batchelor, Katherine / Tindal, Tennant Creek, Nhulunbuy and Adelaide River.
The World Solar Challenge is a biennial solar-powered car race which covers through the Australian Outback, from Darwin to Adelaide.
The Australian is published by News Limited, an asset of News Corporation, which also owns the sole dailies in Brisbane, Adelaide, Hobart and Darwin and the most popular metropolitan dailies in Sydney and Melbourne.
Tim Fischer aboard the inaugural Adelaide to Darwin, Northern Territory | Darwin train, 15 January 2004.
Since retiring from politics he has continued his association with rail as Special Envoy to the Adelaide to Darwin railway line and travelled on the first freight train and first Ghan passenger train to Darwin in 2004.
* The first Ghan passenger train across Australia from Adelaide to Darwin sets off on its three-day journey.
All capital cities in Australia have at least one pedestrian street of which most central are: Pitt Street Mall and Martin Place in Sydney, Bourke Street Mall in Melbourne, Queen Street Mall and Brunswick Street Mall in Brisbane, Rundle Mall in Adelaide, Hay Street and Murray Street Malls in Perth, Elizabeth Street in Hobart, City Walk in Canberra, and Smith Street in Darwin.
Port Augusta is a stop on the Indian Pacific transcontinental train service on the Sydney – Perth railway and on the Ghan service between Adelaide, Alice Springs and Darwin.
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The city's isolation was a problem until the Adelaide narrow gauge railway link was finished in 1888.
There are Adelaide Streets, Adelaide Avenues and Adelaide Roads throughout the former empire ; there is also Adelaide Hospital ( now the Adelaide and Meath Hospital, Tallaght ) in Dublin, and an Adelaide railway station in Belfast.
The station is the terminus of the state's regional railway network operated by V / Line, The Overland rail service to Adelaide, and the Countrylink XPT service to Sydney.
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