Trans-Australian railway : linking east and west : opening ceremony by the Right Honorable Sir Ronald Crawfurd Munroe Ferguson ... Governor-General of the Commonwealth of Australia. (Melbourne : Albert J. Mullett, Government Printer, 1917)
During negotiations leading up to Federation, an undertaking was made to Western Australians that a transcontinental railway would be federally-funded to link them to the Eastern states. Construction began from Port Augusta in South Australia in 1912 and also from Kalgoorlie in the west. The line was opened in 1917.
