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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.
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.
Today passenger rail services are controlled by the Public Transport Authority (a department of the Government of Western Australia) through Transperth, which operates public transport in Perth, and Transwa, which operates country passenger services. Journey Beyond operates the Indian Pacific.
From 1996 to 1998, Australian National was broken up and in 1997 its interstate passenger trains — The Ghan, Indian Pacific and The Overland — were sold to Great Southern Rail (GSR), a consortium of GB Railways, Legal & General, Macquarie Bank, RailAmerica, G13 Pty Ltd [2] and Serco, at a book valuation of A$$16 million. [3]
The line, 315 kilometres (196 miles) long, is part of the Adelaide–Darwin rail corridor and the Sydney–Perth rail corridor. One Rail Australia, Pacific National and SCT Logistics operate freight services on the line; the sole passenger service is Journey Beyond's experiential tourism trains The Ghan and Indian Pacific.
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.
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Condobolin railway station is located on the Broken Hill line in New South ... Great Southern Rail's weekly Indian Pacific passes Condobolin but does not stop at the ...