Qualla: Tarcoola railway station https://qualla.com/tarcoola-railway-station en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:26 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/q/f/x/9/tarcoola-railway-station-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Tarcoola railway station https://qualla.com/tarcoola-railway-station Tarcoola railway station: Introduction https://qualla.com/tarcoola-railway-station/ Photo credit Unknown author, Public domain. Somewhere out on the Trans-Australian line, a thousand kilometres of saltbush in every direction, a railway station carries the name of a horse. In 1893, a thoroughbred called Tarcoola came charging from the outside to win the Melbourne Cup, and that same year, prospectors struck gold in this empty corner of South Australia. The name of the winning horse went onto the new goldfield, and from the goldfield onto the railway town that grew beside it. Today the gold is long gone and barely anyone lives here, but Tarcoola remains one of the most important points on the Australian rail map - the junction where the continent's two great steel arteries split apart.

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]]> Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/q/f/x/9/tarcoola-railway-station-wp/qfx9-tarcoola-railway-station-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Tarcoola railway station: A Horse, a Cup, and a Goldfield https://qualla.com/tarcoola-railway-station/ Photo credit Unknown author, Public domain. The horse came first. Tarcoola, a seven-year-old raised on a station along the Darling River in New South Wales, won the 1893 Melbourne Cup in a tight finish, trained by Joseph Cripps and ridden by his son Herbert - the only father-and-son pairing ever to combine for a Cup victor...

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]]> Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/q/f/x/9/tarcoola-railway-station-wp/qfx9-tarcoola-railway-station-a-horse-a-cup-and-a-goldfield.mp3 0:06 2 full Tarcoola railway station: The Line Across the Nullarbor https://qualla.com/tarcoola-railway-station/ Photo credit Unknown author, Public domain. What truly put Tarcoola on the map was the railway. The Trans-Australian Railway - the engineering epic that finally bound the western third of the continent to the east - was built through Tarcoola in 1915 and opened in 1917, running from Port Augusta clear across the treeless N...

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]]> Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/q/f/x/9/tarcoola-railway-station-wp/qfx9-tarcoola-railway-station-the-line-across-the-nullarbor.mp3 0:06 3 full Tarcoola railway station: Where the Rails Divide https://qualla.com/tarcoola-railway-station/ Photo credit Unknown author, Public domain. For decades Tarcoola was simply a stop on the east-west line. Then, in 1980, it became something more. A new standard-gauge railway - 828 kilometres of fresh track - struck north from Tarcoola toward Alice Springs, replacing the old narrow-gauge Central Australia line that had wa...

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]]> Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/q/f/x/9/tarcoola-railway-station-wp/qfx9-tarcoola-railway-station-where-the-rails-divide.mp3 0:06 4 full Tarcoola railway station: The Great Trains Still Pass https://qualla.com/tarcoola-railway-station/ Photo credit Unknown author, Public domain. The romance of the line has not entirely faded. Two of the world's legendary long-distance trains roll through Tarcoola each week. The Indian Pacific traces the east-west route between Sydney and Perth; the Ghan runs the north-south journey between Adelaide and Darwin. Both pass ...

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