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Find a POD no earlier than the foundation of New South Wales (1788) where instead of the OTL hodgepodge of railway gauges that plague the Australian railway network, the country--either before or at union--chooses a single, continent-wide gauge as standard (it does not, just to be clear, have to be OTL "standard gauge". You could pick some type of broad or narrow gauge, instead, such as the OTL Queensland standard or the Indian gauge). Since the federalization of the (state-owned) railroads was actually quite narrowly defeated at Federation, which would probably have established some type of "standard", this should be fairly easy.
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