History
Broken Hill had two tramways which were established by the early 1900s. One was closed in 1926 due to being unprofitable while the other was converted to standard gauge rail in 1919 and eventually connected to Sydney via the Broken Hill line in 1927.
When the rolling stock was ordered, it was planned that they would be utilised on both the Parkes to Broken Hill and Dubbo to Bourke services. In September 1937 the Silver City Comet commenced operating three times a week between Parkes and Broken Hill connecting with the Forbes Mail from Sydney. This was increased to daily from May 1938 before reverting to thrice weekly in October 1939. This released some stock for transfer to Sydney to operate Federal City Express services to Canberra from October 1939 until November 1945. In April 1940 the remaining stock was also transferred to Sydney to operate Newcastle Flyer services for a few months.
From January 1957 Silver City Comet stock operated a three times per week service from Parkes to Orange and Dubbo. Following the introduction of the XPT service to Dubbo in April 1982 this was cut back to Orange.
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