page_title: Railway electrification in Australia
hierarchical_section_title: Railway electrification in Australia
caption_attribution_description: English: CityRail A Set Waratah exterior view
context_page_description: Electrification of Australian railways began with the Melbourne and Sydney suburban lines.
  Melbourne suburban lines were electrified from 1919 using 1.5 kV DC. Sydney suburban lines were electrified from 1926 using the same system.
  Later Australian systems used 25 kV AC electrification, which had been introduced in the 1950s in France, and by the 1980s become the international standard. Hence they differed from earlier systems, although as each suburban system is centred on a main city and are not interconnected this is not a problem. Later suburban systems were Brisbane from 1979, Perth from 1992 and Adelaide from 2014. There has also been extensive non-urban electrification in Queensland using 25 kV AC, mainly during the 1980s for coal routes.
context_section_description: Electrification of Australian railways began with the Melbourne and Sydney suburban lines. 
  Melbourne suburban lines were electrified from 1919 using 1.5 kV DC. Sydney suburban lines were electrified from 1926 using the same system.
  Later Australian systems used 25 kV AC electrification, which had been introduced in the 1950s in France, and by the 1980s  become the international standard. Hence they differed from earlier systems, although as each suburban system is centred on a main city and are not interconnected  this is not a problem. Later suburban systems were Brisbane from 1979, Perth from 1992 and Adelaide from 2014. There has also been extensive non-urban electrification in Queensland using 25 kV AC, mainly during the 1980s for coal routes.
caption: A Sydney Trains A set below catenary lines at Campbelltown station
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