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the sydney railway company started building the first railway track in NSW between sydney and parramatta (a distance of 22 kilometres.)
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in victoria the first railway line was opened between port melbourne and flinders street.
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This was between adelaide and port adelaide.
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this was 72 kilometres between the northern towns of launceston and deloraine.
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this was between lockville to yoganup.
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This railway ran from ipswich inland to granchester using the narrow 1067 millimetre gauge.
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this was between geraldton and northampton.
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a 10km branch line opened between queanbeyan,NSW and canberra.