Cook is a railway station and crossing loop located in the Australian state of South Australia on the Trans-Australian Railway. It is 824 kilometres by rail from Port Augusta, 863 kilometres by rail from Kalgoorlie, and about 100 kilometres north of the Eyre Highway via an unsealed road. It is on the longest stretch of straight railway in the world, at 478 kilometres, whic…Cook is a railway station and crossing loop located in the Australian state of South Australia on the Trans-Australian Railway. It is 824 kilometres by rail from Port Augusta, 863 kilometres by rail from Kalgoorlie, and about 100 kilometres north of the Eyre Highway via an unsealed road. It is on the longest stretch of straight railway in the world, at 478 kilometres, which extends from Ooldea, South Australia to beyond Loongana, Western Australia.