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 ...

Australia is the sixth-largest country in the world, about 30 times the size of the UK, and on this mighty plateau you finally gauge a sense of its mammoth scale. This, the longest straight stretch of ...

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 ...

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 ...

Australia. I finally got there, the last of the seven continents for me to visit. I didn’t start traveling with that goal in mind, but here I was in Sydney after that long, long flight from Los ...

ON BOARD THE GHAN, Australia (AP) - As the sun rises over red sandy hills scattered with spiky spinifex bushes and stunted eucalyptus trees, the harsh beauty of the Australian Outback is bathed in a ...

One of the world’s classic train routes, the Ghan in Australia, will more than double in length when an extension from Alice Springs to Darwin opens in February. Tickets are on sale now. The expanded ...

A peek into the past of the famous Ghan train is this week’s reader photo. THIS RELIC OF THE Ghan, the train that runs from Adelaide to Darwin, is captured in this week’s reader photo sent in by Ken ...

The Ghan opens to the public for the first time in four years on Saturday. The last open day attracted about 6000 people. Great Southern Rail's hospitality manager Jos Engelaar has worked for the past ...

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 ...

SBS has jumped on the slow-TV phenomenon with a three-hour broadcast of a journey on the famous Ghan. It’s a transfixing experience. After three pleasant hours, I switch it off and head to bed. As you ...

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