The Ghan has begun its historic first journey south from Darwin. The return trip to Adelaide will take two days. The event may have lacked the pomp and ceremony of yesterday's arrival, but for those ...

WITH its towering, 70m-high rock faces bordering 13 gorges and ancient Aboriginal rock art, it is easy to understand why Katherine Gorge attracts 250,000 visitors a year. For many, the journey to the ...

MEASURING six and a half times the length of Adelaide Oval, Australia’s longest passenger train in more than a decade has embarked on its record-breaking journey. The Ghan departed Adelaide bound for ...

The Australian outback is one of the wildest places on Earth. A vast void of deserts and semi-arid wilderness, it stretches across about 80% of the country’s interior — an area roughly equivalent to ...

AT LAST, 126 YEARS after the north-to-south transcontinental route was conceived, Australia’s legendary Ghan train is running the entire 1,851 miles between Adelaide and Darwin. Named for the ...

TERRITORIANS could soon be jetting down to Adelaide for a weekend get away without having to take to the sky after plans were hatched to build a bullet train called the Galloping Ghan between the ...

The Ghan is an innovative threehour documentary that takes the viewer on an immersive visually stunning journey on Australias most iconic passenger train In Australias first Slow TV documentary The ...

A peek into the past of the famous Ghan train is this week’s reader photo. THIS RELIC OF THE Ghan, the train that runs from Adelaide to Darwin, is captured in this week’s reader photo sent in by Ken ...

The Ghan passenger service will begin its inaugural return trip from Darwin to Adelaide this morning. The departure will not herald the fanfare of the arrival of the first passenger train in Darwin ...

As hosts Ant and Dec told the reality contestants, there are more of the grumpy humps in Australia than in any other country in the world. They are regarded as a menace there, destroying vegetation ...

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