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Atherton—Herberton Historic Railway [26] Australian Sugar Cane Railway, Bundaberg— 610 mm (2 ft) gauge. [27] Bally Hooley Steam Railway, Port Douglas— 610 mm (2 ft) gauge. [28] Beaudesert Rail (railway operation ceased from 2003) Big Pineapple Railway, Woombye— 610 mm (2 ft) gauge. [29] (railway operation suspended as at December 2022 [30])
The Australian Rail Track Corporation (ARTC) is a federal government owned corporation established in 1997 that owns, leases, maintains and controls the majority of main line standard gauge railway lines on the mainland of Australia, known as the Designated Interstate Rail Network (DIRN).
The railway systems spread from the colonial capitals, except for a few lines that hauled commodities to a rural port. Railways in Australia date from the 10 December 1831 when the Australian Agricultural Company officially opened Australia's first railway, [1] located at the intersection of Brown and Church Streets, Newcastle, New South Wales.
Portillo traces the route of The Ghan from Port Augusta to Darwin, travelling on the Pichi Richi Railway, meeting the indigenous people of Alice Springs, visiting a kangaroo sanctuary and joining Australians to mark the anniversary of Anzac Day [3]
The Ghan (/ ɡ æ n /) [2] is an experiential tourism-oriented passenger train service that operates between the northern and southern coasts of Australia, through the cities of Adelaide, Alice Springs and Darwin on the Adelaide–Darwin rail corridor.
Until about 1930, a daily mixed train departed Crows Nest at 7.00am each morning except Sunday for the 3 1 ⁄ 2-hour trip to Toowoomba. A rail motor service then took over which cut the travel time to a little over 1 1 ⁄ 2 hours. The branch was relegated to goods trains only during the mid-1950s and closed completely on 1 July 1961.
The Ghan is one of the longest train journeys in the world, spanning 1,851 miles (2,979 kilometers) and multiple climate zones, from tropical Darwin in Australia’s “top end” to the lush ...
The entire Central Australia Railway was superseded in 1980 after the standard gauge Tarcoola–Alice Springs Railway was opened, using a new route up to 200 km to the west. A small southern section of the original line between Port Augusta and Quorn has been preserved and is operated as the Pichi Richi Railway .