In the early 1870s Darwin felt the effects of a gold rush at Pine Creek after employees of the Australian Overland Telegraph Line found gold while digging holes for telegraph poles.

In 1870, the first poles for the Overland Telegraph were erected in Darwin, connecting Australia to the rest of the world.

The first connection to Australia was an undersea telegraph cable that was completed on 18 November 1871, connecting Java to Darwin, and eventually to the Australian Overland Telegraph Line across Australia.

* August 22 – The Overland Telegraph is completed in Australia, providing a telegraphic link between Australia and the rest of the world for the first time.

In 1861 the Transcontinental Telegraph also laid its lines alongside the Central Overland Route.

After the arrival of Europeans, they enabled early exploration and faster communications between southeastern Australia and Europe via the Australian Overland Telegraph Line.

The first mineral discoveries in the Top End were associated with the construction of the Overland Telegraph line between 1870 and 1872, in the Pine Creek – Adelaide River area.

Uluru and Kata Tjuta were first mapped by Europeans during the expeditionary period made possible by the construction of the Overland Telegraph Line in 1872.

Uluru and Kata Tjuta were first mapped by Europeans in 1872 during the expeditionary period made possible by the construction of the Australian Overland Telegraph Line.

Beginning as an outpost established with the Australian Overland Telegraph Line on the North-South transport route between Darwin and Adelaide, Katherine has grown with the development of transport and local industries including mining-particularly gold mining ; a strategic military function with RAAF Base Tindal ; also as a tourism gateway to the attractions of nearby Nitmiluk National Park, particularly Katherine Gorge and its many ancient rock paintings.

Katherine Telegraph Station was established on 22 August 1872 and the completion of the Overland Telegraph Line later in 1872, and the town began with a small permanent population on the west side of the Katherine River.

The original post office and the Overland Telegraph station were set just above Knott's Crossing and next to the Sportsman's Arms Hotel that had quarters for the station master at the Overland Telegraph station and a single room police station.

The explorations of Stuart eventually resulted in the Australian Overland Telegraph Line being built and the main route from Port Augusta to Darwin being established, which is now known as the Stuart Highway in his honour.

The Butterfield Overland was discontinued in 1861 but was replaced by the Telegraph Stage Line, which stopped at almost all the former stations, including Gorman's, where the horses were changed.

Remnants of the many railway sidings and bridges, the ruins of railway buildings, and Overland Telegraph repeater stations are located along the track-some of the best preserved are the Coward Springs Campground-complete with natural artesian spa and Curdimurka.

The Butterfield Overland was discontinued in 1861 but was replaced by the Telegraph Stage Line, which stopped at almost all the former stations, including Gorman's, as it was known then, where the horses were changed.

Buildings of the Overland Telegraph Station

The Overland Telegraph that once linked Melbourne to London was constructed in the 1870s and forged a corridor through the middle of the continent that the Explorer ’ s Way and Ghan train now travel.

Two years later, the solid stone buildings of the Tennant Creek Overland Telegraph Station that remain on the site today, were completed by the occupants of the station.

The town of Tennant Creek was located 12 km south of the watercourse because the Overland Telegraph Station had been allocated an 11 km reserve.

The First Transcontinental Railroad ( known originally as the " Pacific Railroad " and later as the " Overland Route ") was a railroad line built in the United States of America between 1863 and 1869 by the Central Pacific Railroad of California and the Union Pacific Railroad that connected its statutory Eastern terminus at Council Bluffs, Iowa / Omaha, Nebraska ( via Ogden, Utah, and Sacramento, California ) with the Pacific Ocean at Oakland, California on the eastern shore of San Francisco Bay opposite San Francisco.

The line was popularly known as the Overland Route after the principal passenger rail service that operated over the length of the line through the end of 1962.

In 1858, the Butterfield Overland Mail stage line began operating with two relay stations in Throckmorton County.

The Butterfield Company bought the stage line in 1858, making the road part of the Butterfield Overland Mail trail reaching west to California.

Russell Springs, founded in 1865, was the Eaton stop on the Butterfield Overland Dispatch stage line.

Beauregard bottled up Benjamin Butler in the Bermuda Hundred Campaign, Pickett's division was detached in support of Robert E. Lee's operation in the Overland Campaign, just before the Battle of Cold Harbor, in which Pickett's division occupied the center of the defensive line, a place in which the main Union attack did not occur.

They were preceded, among others, by the Butterfield Overland Stage, but the failure of the latter put the business in Wells Fargo's hands and led to a monopoly on overland traffic that lasted until 1869, when the transcontinental rail line was completed.

Although the Pony Express is often credited with being the first fast mail line across the North American continent to the Pacific coast, it was preceded by the San Antonio-San Diego Mail Line, known as the " Jackass Mail " ( for the last 180 miles between Fort Yuma and San Diego accomplished on mule back instead of stagecoach ), which ran on a bi-monthly basis, 1500 miles between San Antonio, Texas and San Diego, California, from July 9, 1857 to December 1858 ; and by the Butterfield Overland Mail of George Chorpenning that predated the Pony Express by nearly three years.

Hafner started the Hafner Manufacturing Company, which sold a line of trains called Overland Flyer.

It also contains El Capitan, long used as a landmark by people traveling along the old route later followed by the Butterfield Overland Mail stagecoach line.

The defensive line at the river was finally circumvented by Ulysses S. Grant in the Wilderness ( or Overland ) Campaign of 1864, resulting in the ultimate Union victory.

A disused signal box is located on the island platform at the Flinders Street end of the station, and a pair of dual gauge tracks form the mainly goods only South Kensington-West Footscray line under the station, running in a cutting before entering the Bunbury Street tunnel ( built in 1928 ), providing a rail link to the Port of Melbourne and other freight terminals, as well as access to Southern Cross Station for the CountryLink XPT and The Overland.

The Western standard gauge line, west of the station, is used by interstate freight trains and The Overland passenger service from Melbourne to Adelaide.

The western standard gauge line runs to the west of the station, and is used by interstate freight trains, and The Overland passenger service from Melbourne to Adelaide.

In 1858 the Butterfield Overland Mail stagecoach line ran through the pass.

For example: the " Melbourne Express " ( The Overland ) used to stop at Mitcham ; there were spurlines to Clapham ( now removed ), Sleeps Hill ( now part of the main line ) and to an adjacent woodyard ( still there, but not in use ); and the railway station was manned and had a parcel shipping depot.

Reed then built a substantial log house that in 1858 became a stop for the Butterfield Overland Mail stagecoach line.

7 & 8 ( sometimes known as the Overland Express ) between Chicago, Illinois, and Los Angeles, California, the line was inaugurated in 1901 and ran until the Santa Fe Eight took over the route in 1915.

In the 1800s, the Bristol-Minor stop on the Overland Trail stage coach line occupied buildings which later became part of the Buckeye Ranch.

During construction of the Overland Telegraph line from Adelaide to Darwin in 1870, workers first crossed a creek that was notable for the pine trees that grew on its banks.

The Western standard gauge line runs immediately west of the station, and is used by interstate freight trains and The Overland passenger service to Adelaide, but no passenger platform has been provided.

The Western standard gauge line runs just to the west of the station, and is used by interstate freight trains and The Overland passenger service to Adelaide, but no passenger platform has been provided.