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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.
The Dry Creek–Port Adelaide railway line is an eight-kilometre east–west freight railway line running through Adelaide's north-western suburbs. The line is managed by the Australian Rail Track Corporation (ARTC) and is an important link between Port Adelaide, Pelican Point and the main interstate rail routes which link Adelaide with Melbourne, Perth, Darwin and Sydney.
Country passenger services were discontinued in 1990; today the only services beyond suburban Adelaide are long-distance experiential tourism trains operated by Journey Beyond – The Ghan from Adelaide to Darwin, the Indian Pacific between Perth and Sydney, and the summer-months Great Southern between Adelaide and Brisbane via Adelaide The ...
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.
Journey Beyond Rail Expeditions: Adelaide Parklands Terminal – Brisbane Roma Street: 9 December 2019–present The Gulflander: Queensland Rail: Normanton – Croydon: 1891–present Indian Pacific: Journey Beyond Rail Expeditions: Sydney Central – East Perth: 23 February 1970–present Inlander: Queensland Rail: Townsville – Mount Isa: 21 ...
The Adelaide–Port Augusta railway line is the main route for northbound rail traffic out of Adelaide, South Australia. The line, 315 kilometres (196 miles) long, is part of the Adelaide–Darwin rail corridor and the Sydney–Perth rail corridor.
The Public Transport Authority, a government agency of Western Australia, operates various buses and four long-distance rail routes through its Transwa subsidiary. All routes originate from Perth: The Prospector: (Perth-Kalgoorlie) 9 round trips per week; AvonLink: (Perth (Midland)–Northam) 1 round trip per day
Transperth is Australia's third busiest passenger rail system, behind Sydney and Melbourne but ahead of Brisbane and Adelaide. [10] There are three trains used: the Transperth A-series train, Transperth B-series train and the Transperth C-series train which entered service on 8 April 2024. [6] [7]