 Spirit of Progress

The Spirit of Progress was the premier express passenger train on the Victorian Railways in Australia, running from Melbourne to the New South Wales border at Albury, and later through to Sydney.From its introduction in November 1937 until April 1962 the train service ran on broad gauge line from Melbourne's Spencer Street station to Albury, on the New South Wales / Victorian border, where passengers changed to a New South Wales Government Railways train (the "Melbourne Limited Express"), running on standard gauge track to complete the journey to Sydney.