1848: Australia is a semi-historical railroad game for 3-6 people that covers 150 years of railroad construction and growth in southeast Australia. Beginning in the colonial period when private industries formed private railways, and stretching beyond 1901 when the Australian colonies united to create the Commonwealth of Australia.1848: Australia is based on the game 1829 by Francis Tresham. Historical restraints have, as far as possible, been taken into account. In other areas, history will be written anew. 1848 features the inclusion of the Bank of England as a public company that extends loans and administers railroads that are in receivership, dealing with the different track gauges between states, and \