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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.
In March 1995, the train was internally refurbished as the Mt Christie Car for the Indian Pacific upgrade and had an Ocean interior. On 12 December 2006, the carriage was damaged in an accident involving a truck and the Ghan train at Ban Ban Springs. In February 2007, the carriage was then sent to Taree for repairs.
The Ghan began traveling between Adelaide and Alice Springs in 1929. The track was expanded to Darwin in 2004, creating Australia’s first north-south transcontinental railway link.
Status as of March 2024 [18] NSU51 "George McLeay" With NSU52, worked the first northbound diesel-hauled Ghan train on 26 June 1954. Displayed indoors at Pichi Richi Railway; not operable [19] NSU52: With NSU51, worked the first northbound diesel-hauled Ghan train on 26 June 1954. Transferred to Pichi Richi Railway on 24 April 1982. [19]
Preserved carriage from the narrow-gauge Ghan in Alice Springs in February 2009. The Ghan train commenced operation for the Commonwealth Railways when they took over the narrow-gauge Central Australia Railway from the South Australian Railways in 1926. It ran between Port Augusta and Oodnadatta initially, being extended to Alice Springs in 1929.
The Indian Pacific is a weekly experiential tourism-oriented passenger train service that runs in Australia's east–west rail corridor between Sydney, on the shore of the Pacific Ocean, and Perth, on the shore of the Indian Ocean – thus, like its counterpart in the north–south corridor, The Ghan, one of the few truly transcontinental trains in the world.
The terminal was built by Australian National as a dual gauge station for The Ghan, Indian Pacific and Trans-Australian to the north and The Overland to the south-east – the latter train being on 1600 mm (5 ft 3 in) broad-gauge tracks at the time, before conversion to 1435 mm (4 ft 8 + 1 ⁄ 2 in) in 1995. [6]
Stuart railway station circa 1931, before it was renamed Alice Springs Arrival of the first train at Alice Springs, 6 August 1929. Alice Springs railway station is located on the Adelaide–Darwin railway in Alice Springs. [1]