Australian History
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Most sources give the Murray, but if you mean a river totally within NSW, it is probably the Murrumbidgee.
Must have posted that just as I was typing, deep blue!
Goldpick
Chris Johnson
Ben Hall, 5th May 1865, and Dan Morgan, 9th April 1865.
Goldpick
Chris Johnson
Where was Australia's first railway situated, and what was its purpose?
Oh Pete will be all over this one 
Was it in Newcastle in 1831? Did we already have this question, or was it about the first railway tunnel?
Railways in Australia date from the 10 December 1831 when the Australian Agricultural Company officially opened Australia's first railway,[1] located at the intersection of Brown & Church Streets, Newcastle, New South Wales. Privately owned and operated to service the A Pit coal mine, it was a cast iron fishbelly rail on an inclined plane as a gravitational railway.
Railways in Australia date from the 10 December 1831 when the Australian Agricultural Company officially opened Australia's first railway,[1] located at the intersection of Brown & Church Streets, Newcastle, New South Wales. Privately owned and operated to service the A Pit coal mine, it was a cast iron fishbelly rail on an inclined plane as a gravitational railway.
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Chris Johnson
Correct, next!
DrDuck said:
We did have the first rail tunnel... Merewether beach.
All other continents have one of these, but not Australia?
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