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TASMANIA
VICTORIA
ACT
NEW
SOUTH
WALES
QUEENSLAND
NORTHERN
TERRITORY
WESTERN
AUSTRALIA
SOUTH
AUSTRALIA
ROAD TRAINS
50 METRES LONG
Bamaga
Bamaga
Broome
Broome
5300
Fitzroy
Crossing
Kununurra
Darwin
Katherine
3670
Tennant Creek
3000
Alice Springs
Mount Isa
2400
Julia Creek
Townsville
1400
Coen
Port
Headland
Cairns
Cairns
1000
Clifton
Andy Collins
from Cairns
Andy Collins
from Cairns
Bamaga
Cairns
Townsville
Broome
Kununurra
Fitzroy Crossing
Mt Isa
Julia Creek
Tennant Creek
Katherine
Whilst driving down the Western Australian
coastline around Port Headland
I noticed a road sign that said:
That tickled my fancy and I started singing:
I'm going to ride a train
From Bamaga to Broome
I'm going to ride a train
From Bamaga to Broome
I'm going to ride a train
I'm going to do it soon
The train I'll ride
Is 50 metres long
Yeah, the train I'll ride
Is 50 metres long
Going to pack my bag
Yes and I'll be gone
So goodbye Babe
I'm going far away
Goodbye Babe
I'm going far away
Goodbye Babe
I'm going to leave today
And I'm going to ride a roadtrain
a roadtrain
a roadtrain
And the road I'll ride
Goes from state to state
Yeah the road I'll ride
Goes from state to state
Going to tune right in
To channel number 8
So goodbye Babe
I'm going far away
Goodbye Babe
I'm going far away
Goodbye Babe
I'm going to leave today
And I'm going to ride a roadtrain
a roadtrain
a roadtrain
I'm going to ride a train
All the way from Bamaga to Broome
Yes I'm going to ride a train
All the way from Bamaga to Broome
I'm going to ride a train
I'm going to do it soon
Yes I'm going to ride a train
I'm going to do it soon
Yes I'm going to ride a train
I'm going to do it soon
I'm going to do it soon
I'm going to do it soon
I'm going to ride a train
Road Trains: an Australian Phenomena
Show me some!
Cattle
Oil
Pipes
Straw
Are they really
50 metres long?
No!
Longer!
1945: Kurt Johannsen invented self-tracking trailer system
Trailer follows one in front within 6 inches
Original
Restored
Handles 8 times a single truck. Replaced camels as outback transport!
So what's the record?
1993
Bruce Malcolm pulled 21 trailers with a Mack 500HP Superliner
1994
Plugger Bowden pulled 29 livestock crates with a Superliner II
1997
34 trailers were pulled in Winton Queensland
2001
51 Trailers at Tennant Creek, 750 metres long!
2006
104 Trailers, Clifton, John Atkinson, 1474 metres long!
Six times longer than a UK express train!
This is Australian folk history
Acknowledgments
www.inselfdefense.net/outbacktowing/
www.macktrucks.com.au/
http://groups.msn.com/dieseldreamer/roadtrains.msnw
www.abc.net.au/rural/sa/stories/s464480.htm
www.roadtransporthall.com
didgeweb.free.fr/music/
www.andycollins.com
and the road train font:
Produced by:
Bob Hopgood
Oxford Brookes University
http://wwwcms.brookes.ac.uk/modules/web_tech/