I am lying at this moment on a little couch on the lower berth of a bunk bed on The Ghan train, feeling every vibration. The rhythm of the rumbling rail track reverberate in my ears, as if Earth is ...

MEASURING six and a half times the length of Adelaide Oval, Australia’s longest passenger train in more than a decade has embarked on its record-breaking journey. The Ghan departed Adelaide bound for ...

Australia’s most iconic rail trip, the Ghan, runs north from Adelaide through the harsh deserts of the center on a transcontinental journey that stretches more than 1,800 miles all the way to the ...

Back at the station, I leave Shelita and climb on board the Indian Pacific in time for a late breakfast. As the train heaves off from Broken Hill, an orchestra of squeaks, rattles and creaks starts up ...

WITH its towering, 70m-high rock faces bordering 13 gorges and ancient Aboriginal rock art, it is easy to understand why Katherine Gorge attracts 250,000 visitors a year. For many, the journey to the ...

The Ghan train – which makes the epic journey across Australia between Darwin and Adelaide, via Alice Springs – just got an upgrade courtesy of design studio Woods Bagot. Having already transformed ...

AT LAST, 126 YEARS after the north-to-south transcontinental route was conceived, Australia’s legendary Ghan train is running the entire 1,851 miles between Adelaide and Darwin. Named for the ...

On January 15, 2004, a goods train left Adelaide on the first transcontinental railway linking Darwin with the southern states. Two weeks later the iconic Ghan train made the same journey, terminating ...