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The first railway in this country was right here in Melbourne, between Melbourne town (now our CBD) and Sandridge (now a suburb called Port Melbourne). It was built to the track gauge mentioned above, also the track gauge used in Ireland.
New South Wales originally agreed to build to this gauge too but changed their mind after we started construction.
The idea is to imagine that New South Wales and Victoria both build to the gauge on which they originally agreed.
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