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Corridor selection history for Australian high-speed rail
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A variety of routes for high-speed rail in Australia have been discussed since 1984, when CSIRO initiated the VFT project, but none has come to fruition. (Although the term "high-speed rail" is in wide use, on only one occasion has a train in Australia achieved the internationally accepted lower limit of high-speed rail of 200 kilometres per hour (124 miles per hour).)[1] Australian passenger trains do not exceed a service speed of 160 km/h (99.4 mph), and then only sporadically. Much of the consideration of improved rail corridors has been directed at freight traffic, which is hampered in the eastern states by sharp curvature.
Main article: High-speed rail in Australia
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