Editing Albury (section)

===Rail===
[[File:AlburyRailwayStation2.JPG|thumb|Albury railway station, built in 1881 in the [[Australian non-residential architectural styles#Victorian Italianate|Victorian Italianate]] style]]
[[Albury railway station]] is on the main Sydney-Melbourne railway line. Originally, New South Wales and Victoria had different [[track gauge]]s, which meant that all travellers in either direction had to change trains at Albury. To accommodate this, a very long [[railway platform]] was needed; the {{convert|450|m|adj=on}} long covered platform is one of the longest in Australia.<ref name="platform">{{cite web|title=Albury anything but borderline|url=http://www.weeklytimesnow.com.au/country-living/travel/albury-anything-but-borderline/story-fnkeraqd-1226776867017|work=[[The Weekly Times]]|access-date=12 December 2014|archive-date=4 September 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150904063406/http://www.weeklytimesnow.com.au/country-living/travel/albury-anything-but-borderline/story-fnkeraqd-1226776867017|url-status=dead}}</ref> The broad gauge section of track between Seymour and Albury has now been converted to standard gauge; there is no longer a [[break-of-gauge]] at Albury station. The station is served by a three daily [[V/Line]] train services from [[Southern Cross railway station|Melbourne]] (terminating at Albury) and the [[NSW TrainLink]] Melbourne-Sydney [[New South Wales XPT|XPT]] service, which runs twice daily in each direction.
In 1873, the {{convert|5|ft|3|in|adj=on}} [[broad gauge]] railway line from Melbourne reached the township of Belvoir/Wodonga. In 1881, the New South Wales {{convert|4|ft|8.5|in|adj=on}} [[standard gauge]] railway line reached Albury, with a railway bridge joining the two colonies in 1883. Albury became the stop over, where passengers on the Melbourne-Sydney journey changed trains until 1962, when a standard gauge track was opened between the two capitals. After World War II, in an attempt to overcome the difference in gauges and speed up traffic, a [[bogie exchange]] device lifted freight wagons and carriages allowing workers to refit rolling stock with different gauged wheel-sets.

The break of railway gauge at Albury was a major impediment to Australia's war effort and infrastructure during both World Wars, as every soldier, every item of equipment, and all supplies had to be off-loaded from the broad gauge and reloaded onto a standard gauge railway wagon on the opposite side of the platform. In his book ''Tramps Abroad'', writer [[Mark Twain]] in 1895 wrote of the break of gauge at Albury and changing trains: ""Now comes a singular thing, the oddest thing, the strangest thing, the most unaccountable marvel that Australia can show. At the frontier between NSW and Victoria our multitude of passengers were routed out of their snug beds by lantern light in the morning in the biting cold to change cars. Think of the paralysis of intellect that gave that idea birth, imagine the boulder it emerged from, on some petrified legislator's shoulders."<ref>{{cite book |author=Fischer, Tim |author-link=Tim Fischer |chapter=Forward |editor=Marsh, Bill 'Swampy' |title=Great Australian Railway Stories |publisher=ABC Books |year=2005 }}</ref>

During World War II military armouries and warehouses were established in the vicinity of Albury at Bonegilla, Wirlinga and Bandiana. Similar stores were also established at [[Tocumwal]] and [[Oaklands, New South Wales|Oaklands]]. The conversion of the broad gauge track to a second standard gauge track, between [[Seymour railway station|Seymour]] and Albury, was substantially completed in 2011. The railway station and its associated yards are listed on both the [[Australian National Heritage List]] and the [[New South Wales State Heritage Register]].<ref name="AHD">{{cite AHD|105912|Albury Railway Station and Yard|access-date=12 October 2017}}</ref><ref name="SHR">{{cite NSW SHR|5045002|Albury Railway Station and yard group|fn=H06/00078|access-date=12 October 2017}}</ref>