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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.
Great Australian Railway Journeys is a BBC Two documentary series produced by ... Portillo travels across the Nullarbor Plain from Adelaide to Perth on the Indian ...
Journey Beyond is the trading name and brand deployed since 2017 by a succession of companies providing experiential tourism in Australia, including luxury trains (The Ghan, the Indian Pacific, and the Great Southern) and The Overland interstate service. "Journey Beyond" is also included in the names of a number of associated companies.
As of 2020, the Indian Pacific is a weekly, all-through, experiential tourism service. [15] From the start of construction until 1996, the Tea and Sugar supply train carried vital provisions to the work sites and localities, all of them isolated, along the route: a butcher and banking and postal services were among the facilities provided.
Rawlinna is a stop for the Indian Pacific, the experiential tourism train that operates between Perth and Sydney. [3]The train is the successor to the Trans-Australian, which was inaugurated in 1917, when the line was opened.
The settlement was dependent on the Tea and Sugar Train for the delivery of supplies until 1996 when the train was withdrawn. As of 2022 the Indian Pacific, the only passenger train that traverses the entire Trans-Australian Railway, still passes there, but does not stop. [2]
The track configuration as of 2017 was a 2.6 kilometres (1.6 miles) crossing loop, a goods loop of 540 metres (590 yards) and a short camp-train siding for emergency use. [6] The sole passenger train on the western part of the Trans-Australian Railway, the Indian Pacific experiential tourism train, does not stop there. [7]
The Main Western Railway is a major railway in New South Wales, Australia. It runs through the Blue Mountains , and Central West regions. It is 825 kilometres (513 mi) long, of which 484 kilometres (301 mi) is currently operational.