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Date Train Location Speed Notes
1916 Melbourne Express South Australia Ninety Mile Desert, South Australia
From Murray Bridge to Wolseley
35 mph (56.33 km/h) (average)
58 mph (93.34 km/h) (maximum)
[1][2]
1927 Geelong Flyer Victoria (state)From Flinders Street to Geelong, Victoria 45 mph (72.42 km/h) (average)
70 mph (112.7 km/h) (maximum)
[3]
11 November 1929 Caves Express New South Wales From Parramatta to Penrith, New South Wales 54 mph (86.90 km/h) (average) [4]
30 April 1934 Creamy Kate New South Wales Between Douglas Park and Menangle, south of Sydney 75 mph (120.7 km/h) [5]
17 November 1937 Spirit of Progress Victoria (state) Between Werribee and Laverton, near Geelong, Victoria 79.5 mph (127.9 km/h) [6]
1947 Spirit of Progress Victoria (state) 84 mph (135.2 km/h) [7]
28 April 1951 Budd Rail Diesel Car South Australia Between Cook (SA) and Rawlinna (WA) on the Nullarbor Plain 90 mph (144.8 km/h) [8]
1 December 1951 Commonwealth Railways GM class South Australia Between Cook (SA) and Rawlinna (WA) on the Nullarbor Plain 92 mph (148.1 km/h) [9]
31 March 1987 Kalgoorlie Prospector Eastern Goldfields Railway 150 km/h (93.21 mph) [10]
6 September 1981 XPT New South Wales Between Table Top and Gerogery, southern NSW 113.7 mph (183.0 km/h) [11]
18 September 1992 XPT New South Wales Between Table Top and Yerong Creek, southern NSW 119.9 mph (193.0 km/h) [12]
23 May 1999 QR Electric Tilt Train Queensland Between Meadowvale and Avondale, near Bundaberg, Queensland. 130.4 mph (209.9 km/h) [13][14][15]
  1. ^ "GENERAL NEWS". The Evening Echo. Vol. , , no. 6946. Victoria, Australia. 17 August 1916. p. 4. Retrieved 8 July 2021 – via National Library of Australia.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: extra punctuation (link)
  2. ^ "TO CORRESPONDENTS". Chronicle. Vol. LIX, , no. 3, 021. South Australia. 15 July 1916. p. 16. Retrieved 8 July 2021 – via National Library of Australia.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: extra punctuation (link)
  3. ^ "Fastest Train in Australia". The Eastern Recorder. Vol. XVII, , no. 904. Western Australia. 3 June 1927. p. 3. Retrieved 8 July 2021 – via National Library of Australia.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: extra punctuation (link)}
  4. ^ "CAVES EXPRESS". National Advocate. New South Wales, Australia. 11 January 1930. p. 3. Retrieved 8 July 2021 – via National Library of Australia.
  5. ^ "NEW RAIL MOTOR'S SPEED". The Labor Daily. No. 3246. New South Wales, Australia. 1 May 1934. p. 7. Retrieved 4 October 2017 – via National Library of Australia.
  6. ^ "VICTORIA'S NEW EXPRESS MAKES 79 MILES AN HOUR". The Age. No. 25, 769. Victoria, Australia. 18 November 1937. p. 7. Retrieved 7 July 2021 – via National Library of Australia.
  7. ^ "80 M.P.H. RAIL RECORD". National Advocate. New South Wales, Australia. 16 July 1952. p. 1. Retrieved 6 October 2017 – via National Library of Australia.
  8. ^ "Budd Railcar Makes Two Records Over Nullarbor". The West Australian. Vol. 67, , no. 20, 211. Western Australia. 30 April 1951. p. 3. Retrieved 6 October 2017 – via National Library of Australia.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: extra punctuation (link)
  9. ^ "80 M.P.H. RAIL RECORD". National Advocate. New South Wales, Australia. 16 July 1952. p. 1. Retrieved 6 October 2017 – via National Library of Australia.
  10. ^ May, Andrew S; Gray, Bill (2006), A history of WAGR passenger carriages, Bill Gray, p. 305, ISBN 978-0-646-45902-8
  11. ^ "Visit XPT 'to make transport point'". The Canberra Times. Vol. 56, , no. 16, 782. Australian Capital Territory, Australia. 7 September 1981. p. 3. Retrieved 7 July 2021 – via National Library of Australia.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: extra punctuation (link)
  12. ^ "The making of an XPT speed record" Railway Digest November 1992 page 417
  13. ^ QR Limited (1999). Annual Report June 1999 (PDF). Brisbane: QR Limited. p. 53. Archived from the original (PDF) on 30 September 2009.
  14. ^ "QR Tilt Train Sets Australian Rail Speed Record" Railway Digest June 1999 page 15
  15. ^ "World's fastest on narrow tracks – National – www.smh.com.au". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 28 June 2017.