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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.
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.
Australia is the only continent to offer both east–west and north–south transcontinental trains: The Indian Pacific from Sydney on the Pacific to Perth on the Indian Oceans, and The Ghan from Adelaide on the southern shores of the continent to Darwin on the northern shore. [9]
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.
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.
Cook is a railway station and crossing loop located in the Australian state of South Australia on the Trans-Australian Railway.It is 824 kilometres (512 miles) by rail from Port Augusta, 863 kilometres (536 miles) by rail from Kalgoorlie, and about 100 kilometres (62 mi) north of the Eyre Highway via an unsealed road.
Since 2001, maintenance work has been undertaken by contractors whose families do not live on the line. As of 2020, the only passenger train to traverse the entire railway – the Indian Pacific – stopped at Cook, [4] Rawlinna (seasonally), [5] and on the Nullarbor Plain [6] as part of the "outback experience", around which the train is marketed.
Rail transport in Australia is a component of the Australian transport system. ... Indian Pacific (Sydney–Adelaide–Perth): 1 round trip per week;