The Never-Never Line: The Story of the North Australia Railway by J Y Harvey

Book Description

Secondhand. Very good condition. Ex library copy with no external stickers. Partial date due slip on inside page. Minor wear to book corners. Dust jacket has slight wear at top and tail edges.

The Never-Never Line is the North Australia Railway, an isolated 3ft 6in gauge line which ran southward from Darwin to Birdum at the Top End of the Northern Territory.

It began its operations on 30 September 1889 as the 146 mile long Palmerston and Pine Creek Railway, a component of the South Australia Railways system. It became Commonwealth property in 1911 and under its new owners was extended for 55 miles to the Katerine River in 1917 and in 1929 to Birdum, 316 miles from Darwin. The railway ceased operations in 1975, an indirect casualty of Cyclone Tracy.

The Never-Never Line not only tells the story of the North Australia Railway but also chronicles the various attempts, spanning more than a century, to complete the great north-south transcontinental link. (book flap)