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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.
Train Name/No. Operator Name Distance No. of stops Frequency Scheduled running time Bangkok: Singapore: 951/952 Locomotive : SRT & KTMB / Service : Eastern & Oriental Express: 1,907 km 5 Special deluxe excursion train 2 days 3 hrs 25 mins Bangkok: Su-ngai Kolok: 37/38 SRT: 1,174 km 27 Daily 20 hrs 10 mins Bangkok: Su-ngai Kolok: 171/172 SRT ...
Airport line and Fremantle line trains stop at Shenton Park every 12 minutes each during peak hour for a combined frequency of a train every 6 minutes. Outside peak hour and on weekends and public holidays, each line has a train every 15 minutes for a combined frequency of 7.5 minutes. Late at night, each line has a half-hourly or hourly frequency.
Later, the train became known as the Trans-Australian or, colloquially, "The Trans". After the Sydney–Perth route was converted to standard gauge in 1970, the railway was no longer flanked at both ends by narrow-gauge lines and an all-through service, called the Indian Pacific, was started.
[18] [72] The journey to Perth station takes eighteen minutes. [8] [70] The station is in fare zone two, and there is no surcharge. [8] [72] South-west of the station is a bus stop which is used by rail replacement bus services to Perth and High Wycombe as well as bus route 37, which travels to Oats Street station. [3]
The train could make the journey in just 90 minutes, compared to four hours by car. (A flight between the two cities takes about an hour.) But the high-speed rail has been bogged down by financing ...
The adjacent stations are Wellard railway station towards Perth, and Warnbro railway station towards Mandurah. [3] [4] The station consists of two side platforms. The platforms are approximately 150 metres (490 ft) long, or long enough for a Transperth 6 car train – the longest trains used by Transperth. Platform one can be accessed through ...
A train journey to Perth takes 49 minutes. [3] It is projected that Yanchep station will have 11,032 daily boardings by 2031. [6] The bus interchange has 14 bus stands with four regular bus routes. [4] Routes 494, 495, and 496 run to Eglinton station to the south. Route 498 runs to Two Rocks to the north. [47] Train replacement buses operate as ...