‘FORREST RAILWAY STATION’
Across Australia.
An average of 60 trains per week pass through Forrest along the trans-line, the Indian Pacific four times per week, and several freight trains each day. The trains can be a maximum of 1.8km long and may stop at the Forrest siding to allow another train to pass.
Forrest is a former small railway settlement and stopping place on the Nullarbor Plain, 85 kilometres (53 miles) west of the Western Australia / South Australia state border, established in 1916 during construction of the Trans-Australian Railway.
It is on the part of the railway that is the longest – at 478.193 kilometres (297.135 miles) – stretch of straight railway line in the world
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