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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.
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The Ghan is one of the longest train journeys in the world, spanning 1,851 miles and multiple climate zones, from tropical Darwin in Australia’s “top end” to the lush hills of Adelaide on ...
This is a route-map template for The Ghan, a Journey Beyond train service in Australia.. For a key to symbols, see {{railway line legend}}.; For information on using this template, see Template:Routemap.
The line is used by interstate freight trains operated by Aurizon and by The Ghan passenger train operated by Journey Beyond. The Adelaide–Darwin rail corridor, completed in 2004. Construction of the first of its five constituent lines had started 87 years earlier – and its ill-fated predecessor 39 years before that.
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.
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.