Jeg reiste inn i New South Wales fra Melbourne via Albury. Der fant jeg landets lengste overbygde jernbaneplattform. Grunnen til det er at frem til 1962 måtte alle passasjerer, og det var naturlig nok mange mellom Melbourne og Sydney bytte tog her. Toglinjene i delstatene Victoria og New South Wales hadde nemlig forskjellig sporbredde...

Det hadde de allerede en gang Mark Twain var innom. Hans kommentar?
"Besynderlig, rart og merkelig, det mest uforklarlige under Australia har å vise til, det er sporbreddeskiftet ved Albury. Tenk, hvilken lammelse av intellekt som må ligge bak at denne idéen ble født!"

I entered New South Wales on my way from Melbourne via Albury. There I found the longest covered railway platform in Australia. The reason for its existence is that until 1962 all passengers between Sydney and Melbourne, and they were many, had to change trains here. Because the two states of Victoria and New South Wales had different railway gauges!

Mark Twain traveled through here and could not avoid commenting upon it:
"Now comes a singular thing, the oddest thing, the strangest thing, the unaccountable marvel that Australia can show, namely the break of gauge at Albury-Wodonga. Think of the paralysis of intellect that gave that idea birth."