Why Passenger Trains Suck In Australia

There's no avoiding the fact, wherever you go in Australia, long distance trains suck. Why is this? How can they be so bad? This video explores the history and context of Australian passenger rail, but also these trains today and their future.

Timestamps:
0:00 Intro
1:38 The State-Owned Railways
3:13 The Gauge Problem
5:52 Break-Of-Gauge Journey
8:00 Australian National
9:42 Airline Deregulation
10:35 The XPT...
11:53 Transcontinental Trains
13:35 The Overland
14:43 The 'Good Ones'
15:50 Railway Corporatisation
18:22 Cutting passenger Services
19:23 NSW that could've been
19:57 Conclusion
21:08 The Future
23:33 Outro

Special thanks to:
DangersDan707
OpenRailMap contributors
Location SA
Comrails
BusOfDoomFSX
Paul Leader
Jack Martin
Jacob's Trains
The Railpage Forums
Google Maps
The BBC
The ABC
Many Rail Photo Collections