The Ghan - taking Australia's iconic rail journey | Adelaide to Alice Springs
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- Опубліковано 11 лип 2024
- Step aboard The Ghan for the 2979km trip from Adelaide to Darwin via Australia's Red Centre - one of the world's great railway journeys. We travel in Gold Service for this incredible experience. Find out what the cabin is like, see highlights from the journey and see a selection of the silver service meals on offer.
The Ghan is the world's longest passenger train (excluding trains that also feature freight cars, such as the Auto Train in the USA). Today's train has 35 carriages hauled by two NR class diesels and is 876m long.
This is the first of two videos documenting my experience on The Ghan. In this video I travel from Adelaide to Alice Springs.
This video was filmed 11-12 October 2020 when there was no community transmission of COVID-19 in South Australia and the Northern Territory, so face masks were not required. A range of measures were in place on the train to minimise health risks including pre departure temperature checks and reduced capacities in the dining and lounge cars. Passengers were seated in a checkerboard layout in the dining car.
The second video, from Alice Springs to Darwin, is available here: • The Ghan experience | ...
The Ghan is operated by Journey Beyond Expeditions.
The Ghan fares and timetable:
journeybeyondrail.com.au/gues...
🚉 Train: The Ghan
🚉 Operator: Journey Beyond Rail Expeditions
🚉 Locomotives: Two NR class diesels (NR70, NR74) operated by Pacific National
🚉 Cabin: B1
🚉 Route: Adelaide Parklands Terminal (Keswick) - Alice Springs railway station
🚉 Train number: 1AD8
🚉 Class: Gold Service twin cabin, single occupancy (originally booked as Gold Service single cabin)
🚉 Travel dates: 11-12 October 2020
EQUIPMENT:
🚉 Camera: GoPro Hero 8, GoPro Hero 6 and iPhone XR
Chapters:
00:00 Introduction
02:00 Service levels
02:25 Train composition
03:19 Lunch
03:40 Gold Service twin cabin tour
07:40 Crystal Brook - Stirling North
09:20 Old Ghan railway, Port Augusta
10:36 Departing Port Augusta
10:55 Dinner
11:12 Carriage and lounge tour
11:55 Cabin in night mode
12:30 Port Augusta - Tarcoola
12:52 Sunrise in Marla
14:30 Track conditions
15:24 SA-NT border
15:51 Brunch
16:09 Scenery approaching Alice Springs
17:17 Fares
18:16 Arriving Alice Springs
18:43 Local sights
19:12 Preview of Part 2
Video credits:
Footage at Calomba, South Australia, by Redhen Railcar SAR. Recorded 25 October 2020. / @redhen334
Image credits:
Camel Train, Blinman, 1907, State Library of South Australia collection B 49155
collections.slsa.sa.gov.au/re...
The Ghan route map: Bidgee, CC BY 3.0 creativecommons.org/licenses/..., via Wikimedia Commons
Australia rail map:
Lencer - Own work GMT and SRTM3V2 OpenStreetMap Passenger-Rail-Australia-Map.png by User:MagpieShooter
Soundtrack:
Stinson by Reed Mathis (UA-cam Music Library)
Communicator by Reed Mathis (UA-cam Music Library)
I don’t think the Ghan management could put together a better advert than what you did. They should give you a lifetime pass. Platinum.
Thank you so much! I wish! :)
This is such a good video. Me and my wife watch ghan videos anytime we have a treat night when the kids are in bed with a beer and a wine in hand. It's our dream to make the trio. Thanks for the great video. Watching from Liverpool, UK
That is awesome! Hope you make it here one day! :)
and I thought I was sad cobber!
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I am 75 and living in india. It is a dream for me. I am happy I could see it alive and I also travelled along with the video. Nice.
Thank you! Hopefully you can experience it in person one day. :)
You made a comment about a question often asked. "Doesn't it get boring?" and your reply was something akin to a passenger on an ocean liner of the past.
The seascape on a ship is always different but always the same (sort of) .. the similarities of watching an endless similar landscape passing by .. as in the ocean passing by, in calm waters and stormy seas, it almost forces you to be sociable and what a wonderful thing that is. I have done many ocean liner voyages most were 4-6 weeks long from NZ to UK and vice versa. They impacted on my life in so many ways, and I get the feeling of something like that in your videos. Difference is there is no outside deck to wander around on. Funny old world. Cheers
Interesting to know. I haven’t been on a cruise ship … yet. Cheers!
I love trains, I love Australia and I love your video. Thanks. Looking forward to going there sometime. Greetings from Mexico!
Muchas gracias! Hopefully you can visit one day. :)
I have loved The Ghan since I was very little, and even though I have never rode it, I would ❤ to one day. The reason why I first heard of The Ghan was because one of my Mum's friends Dad loves trains, and he drove across Australia for years, filming trains across the country, and put all of the footage onto a DVD once he got all the footage he wanted of trains he wanted to see, and two clips of the The Ghan were among them. A short while longer, my parents discovered I had a huge interest in trains, and asked the person to make a copy of the DVD for me, and he happily did so, and when I first saw the Ghan train on the DVD, I instantly fell in love! The red NR class locomotive, and the stainless steel carriages which reminded me of the USA's Budd passenger cars, and the route it takes, Mmm-Mmm! Lovely!
Wow. That’s a wonderful story. I hope you get to travel on it one day. Thank you for watching!
I rode the Ghan back in 1999, before the line was extended to Darwin. This brings back a lot of memories and I'd love to do it again one day.
Did this in 1996 during our honeymoon to Australia. We Loved It! ❤❤❤
Great to hear. 🥰
My daughter and I travelled the Ghan from Darwin to Adelaide in late March 22, it was fabulous! We also did the Overland from Adelaide to Melbourne, and I'd now like to do some of the other great train journeys across Australia.
So glad to hear that. Enjoy your future travels!
Whqt would be great to see is The Ghan running from Melbourne to Darwin, overnight stay in Adelaide.
That way we'd eliminate the need for The Overland.
Melbourne to Darwin would be one of the worlds top 3 train trips behind The Orient Express & The Rocky Mountaineer.
I've done the Indian Pacific, Sydney to Perth. Whole Heartedly recommend it. The off train options in Adelaide are all incredibly good. The Rawlinna dinner's awesome.
@@rick_fortune this post focuses on The Ghan, Australia's best and most famous train journey.
Nobody mentioned anything about the boring east west trip. I'd rather visit a giant ball of mud than a shithole like sydney.
Melbourne is Australia's best city and its also the rail and transport hub of Australia.
All trains should run through Melbourne, not through dirty shitholes!
Excellent.....just had a feeling I was aboard the train, doing the travel.....great👍
Glad you liked it!
As in the US, I'm sure that the tracks are maintained primarily for freight trains, and improving their condition for passenger comfort would be a costly program. The majority of people who travel long distances fly, though they miss out on the spectacular scenery! But The Ghan has done all they can to make you comfortable, and those meals looked wonderful.
Yes, true - it's mainly a freight line. Other than that, yes it was wonderful. :)
BUT the entire line was newly constructed 30 years ago (late 80’s) with modern techniques. To be honest it shouldn’t be in bad shape it’s not like it’s 100 years old with minimal maintenance.
That’s the problem most rail passengers do not travel long distances. Intercity rail doesn’t work without extensive suburban rail systems in the cities served and in between. The other conditions for success include speed or a combination of speed and density of areas served. India gets away with its network due to such a high volume of people. The French railways and Spanish ones were in decline before upgrading to high speed service. USA has literally zero intercity rail outside the NEC that is even useable as frequency is too terrible to use fully and the few trains that run are slow and unreliable therefore useless. China literally had to kick passenger trains off of freight lines in order to make them reliable that’s the real basis behind their high speed rail system to separate freight from passengers to the benefit of both.
@@andyrob3259 like most American lines
há países que não tem nada
absolutamente nada
Lovely and relaxing.
Background music is simple and beatiful.
Thank you! Glad you liked it. :)
Hello from Chhattisgarh, India.Australia is such a beautiful country. I would love to travel in this train sometime in the future.
Hello. I hope you can travel on it too. 🤞🏽
@@FromtheWindowSeat haha.English is my second language.
@@pradeepbaurai5671 your English is perfect, and you’ll love travelling by train if you enjoy nature and outdoors
I actually watched part 2 first as l missed this upload. Lovely and the views at sunrise picture perfect. Gosh l remember going to the Pichi Richi railway as a child in 1980 on a family trip from Melbourne and lve never heard about it since. Thankyou for bringing back memories. 👍
Thank you so much! Yes, I went on the Pichi Richi as a kid too. Such a great experience!
Brings back great memories of our Ghan journey in 2016
Thank you so very much for sharing your journey. I have lived in Alice Springs for twelve years, from Brisbane. Each week I sit in my car or pull up with bicycle or walk adjacent to the railway line walkways and marvel at this almost one kilometre of travelling bewilderment of steel, luxury, comfort, freight, fellow travellers, and staff. I think about the people behind double-glazed windows staring back at me on the journey they made to be where they are. Inching their far away ways through the red centre. I will be so humbled later this week to standby the railway walkways of Alice Springs as The Ghan enters 0870, I will gesture with gratitude for knowing so much more about this mighty and legendary locomotive of travel and adventure and what makes it tick with service and hospitality on the inside. Thank you, watching your two videos on the stretch from Adelaide to Darwin has made my year. 😊🚊🎒📚🧳🚂🌏
Yes, it's a remarkable engineering feat. :)
One of the best videos of Ghan. Thank you.
Glad you enjoyed it!
This is a properly brilliant trip report! I'm doing this next month (if the borders are open!) so it was good to get a taste of what to expect! Lucky getting the upgrade to the gold twin! I paid extra for the single supplement as I wasn't keen on sharing a bathroom lol
Thanks Paul! Yeah - fair enough about sharing a bathroom. Though people I know who’ve travelled in gold single said the bathrooms are large (compared to the twin cabin en-suite) and always very clean.
Part two is now live. :) ua-cam.com/video/yjTcUBj9lEs/v-deo.html
Never been on The Ghan but I did go to Alice Springs in 2006, so seeing our wide brown land through your eyes brought back memories. Cheers from Melbourne 😊
That’s so good to hear. Cheers! 😊
What a treat, on board of the historic Ghan across beautiful Australia, thanks.
My pleasure - thank you!
I love this Train. I been on it 2 times and every one has to do the trip once in there life's a must do trip.
That's awesome - lucky you!
As an American (in Nebraska, in fact) I've always dreamed of riding this train. Ever since it was highlighted by Michael Frayn in Great Railway Journeys.
Hope you make it one day!
Fantastic work on giving us the insight into feeling the travel experience. 🙏
Thank you so much!
Nice video, informative, straight to the point
I love Australia 🇦🇺😗
Thank you! :)
I can't wait to come to Australia and do this train journey. Thanks for such an informative and beautiful video.
Thank you. Glad you liked it. Hope you can visit soon.
@@FromtheWindowSeat enjoying your video! What's the best website to book the tickets? Thanks!
@@dife8227 Thank you. I generally purchase tickets directly from the operator, in this case Journey Beyond Rail.
www.journeybeyondrail.com.au/journeys/the-ghan/
I did this the year the Darwin section first opened, it was Brilliant, shame they don't still have the seats that recline for backpackers, it was a great way to see Australia. I did 10 trips although covering, Perth, Adelaide, Melbourne, Alice Springs, Darwin, Back to Alice Springs, then back to Adelaide for my trip to Sydney. Then I rejoined at Alice to go back to Adelaide and back to Perth. other than the lack of choice in the buffet car, it was great. Miss Australia and all the friends I made.
Wow. That would have been an incredible trip. Nice!
Wow... thanks for the video. this reminds me of the time that I visit the Red CEnter back in 1999.
Glad you enjoyed it!
We soooo want to come to Australia just to ride this awesome train! :) Thanks for sharing. Simply awesome.
Awww - you should! International travel will be possible again one day ... hopefully 2022. 🤞🏽
What a clear and beautiful narration. Loved the video ❤️
Thank you so much!
Very interesting and calm journeys i have ever seen on youtube. Fantastic work.
Thank you!
Thank you for another wonderful video.
Cheers!
Thing i like about aussie people is that they recognise your hardwork and acheievments and that's visible in that name "GHAN".. 👨⚖
Love to travel with GHAN one day,it’s one of my bucket list, I’m definitely going to do it near future,& love to see beauty of Australia,hopefully soon ,Thanks
You definitely should. Thanks for watching. 😃
Pea green with envy. What a fabulous trip.
Yes it was!
Fab
Very well explained about the entire journey it really did feel we are travelling with you. Thanks for your efforts.
So nice of you. :)
Well done. A great journey and presentation. Thank you indeed
Awww. Thank you!
Awesome video! Looking forward to Part 2!
Thank you - really appreciate that. :)
Beautiful. Awesome. ❤❤❤❤😊
Thank you! Cheers!
Amazing job mate . Love your videos
Thanks so much!
Yet another great video…thank you
Thank you!
Very nice trip. I love the landscapes. Greetings from Brazil.
Thank you very much!
Im in love with your presentations. Thanks Adam
Great to hear. Thank you!
Wow, eagerly waiting for part 2
It's here: ua-cam.com/video/yjTcUBj9lEs/v-deo.html
I never heard of The Ghan until I stumbled on your channel. It’s exactly what I’d love to do and I’m adding it to my bucket list. Your review was first class..or Platinum! How does anybody give a thumbs down to it? Thanks!
Awesome. Glad to hear that! :)
Imagem bonita de ser ver ......esse trem autraliano......paisagem australiana . Do Brasil / América do Sul cidade de S.Paulo assistindo esse canal maravilhoso . Meu sonho é conhecer Australia .
watching this video,we saw our friends relaxing.We will be on this train in 17 days on our way back from Darwin. Looking forward to it.
Lucky you! Enjoy!
How was it?
Great video..you're a natural at doing this. Great stuff.
Awww. That’s so kind of you!
Thanks for sharing this. I enjoyed watching your trip.
Very glad to hear that. Cheers!
Wow, that was an absolutely fantastic video thank you very much
Thank you so much!
love love, thanks
You’re welcome. Cheers!
Thanks for sharing your journey. One day in my bucket list. 😊🙏
You’re welcome. I hope you get to travel on it. ☺️
Amazing!
I can't wait to see Catherine's Gorge !!
Hi Adam, great video. Thanks for sharing. Will go and watch part 2 now. Cheers, Barry.
Wonderful! Hope you enjoy that one too.
Love this video ❤❤
Thank you!
Great video! This train looks very nice, comfy and big (especially two diesel locomotives). This train reminds me of American trains. I hope I will have a chance to try this train someday. Greetings from cold winter Europe :-D
Thanks Pete! Yes, it was very comfortable. Hopefully you can make it Down Under one day. You should also try the Indian Pacific, run by the same company, which goes from Sydney to Perth via Adelaide. But they’ll both put major holes in your bank balance. 😝 Greetings to you too. It’s a bit warmer here. Has been over 30C this week. ☀️🤓
@@FromtheWindowSeat Good idea. I saw a TV documentary about Indian Pacific :-)
Thanks, like the visuals. Virtual travelling, great way to avoid shyte holes.
Glad you liked it!
With the Ghan you go through the country, not over it. You do see the scenery and enjoy the wildlife too. Want relaxing and cool trip. Try the Ghan. You won't be disappointed.
Yes, it’s a great trip.
Excellent video. Thank you.
Thank you. Glad you liked it!
superb video. great commentary which is so important for visually impaired people like myself.
Thank you! Really glad to hear that. :)
Great video. Thanks.
Thank you! 😃
Wow! Such a detailed review! The Ghan or the Indian pacific is definitely on my bucket list for 2021 or 2022!!
Thank you. Yes, it’s definitely a once in a lifetime experience. Part 2 to Darwin is now live too: ua-cam.com/video/yjTcUBj9lEs/v-deo.html
I have done the Indian pacific from Perth to Adelaide and then the Ghan north to Darwin in 2019 and this June (2021) I am doing the ghan south Bound from Darwin to Adelaide and then I am finishing the Indian pacific i am so excited and I can it definitely worth doing
@@naomibarber1988 Oh wow. That sounds like an incredible trip! Very jealous!
@@FromtheWindowSeat i can say after June that have done north to south and west to east of Australia and almost every capital city missing Melbourne and Canberra
Yeah I kinda wish I could afford this type of trip
I like this I would love to go in the future my brother is like 19 and he’s said he’s gonna go on it too
Yeah - you absolutely should! 😀
Thank you for video really enjoyed it.
Thank you. Glad you liked it.
Thank you. Most helpful
Glad you liked it.
Excellent vid mate.
Very informative. Thanks
Thank you - so glad you liked it. 😊
Travel in the cooler months and enjoy a stopover in Coober Pedy instead of Marla. Much, much better ! :)
The train in the other direction (heading south) includes a visit to Coober Pedy rather than stopping in Marla. 😉
@@aloysiusflartey6122 That’s one way to look at it - but that’s part of the point. It’s the remote Australian outback and you can look for miles and see nothing. Plus there’s a spectacular sunrise. 🙂
Nicely done. Such a relaxed approach but with plenty of detail. Still pricey but the carriages are better than I had thought. Shame we have no Dome carriages in Australia. No mention of being able to transport your car as driving eastward from a mid point would be an adventure. Spending 10 days travelling across the top from Darwin to Cairns would certainly be an experience.
Thank you. Yes, dome carriages would be cool. Love those on Amtrak. I think the Motorail option is available again to take cars.
You used to be able to transport your car on it.
My perants done it many years ago
I have no idea how I stumbled upon this but it's very well put together. Your editing is great and voice is relaxing. Subbed.
Thank you so much! Really great to hear that. :)
You lucky sod, I always wanted to travel on this train, great video thanks!
Thank you - yes, it was an awesome experience. :)
I love this ride
What a wonderful journey. I look forward to seeing the 2nd part. I'd like to take the full trip but with my age, covid 19 and the fact I do not live In Oz I doubt that I will ever be able to do so. What a great shame.
Thank you. Never say never! ;)
The dream train-trip that I would like to do some day...
You definitely should. 😃
Great video 👍
Just booked to experience it for the first time in March. Pretty excited (understatement) ✌️
Awesome. Thank you! You’ll love it! ☺️
@@FromtheWindowSeat if I'm allowed to get into SA from Vic... 🤦
@@robreynolds6435 You’ve still got a bit of time. Hopefully by then things will be under control. 🤞🏽
Hey Mate how much it cost please
@@superbvideos3336 It's not cheap - the fares are here: journeybeyondrail.com.au/guest-information/fares-and-timetables/
Great video is love to see your take on the Indian Pacific too
Thank you - really appreciate that! Might have to save the pennies a while to afford the IP. :P
Fantastic video ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Thank you so much! :)
I feel immensely proud to see that Australians acknowledge the contributions of the AFGHAN cameleers to Australia. However, the name should have never been changed from the AFGHAN express to the GHAN. Still, thank you for this beautiful video and for presenting that little bit of history @2:53. Peace
Thank you. Yes, Australians have a tendency to shorten everything. So instead of saying good day, we say. G'day. :P
The Ghan has changed when I went on it in the early 70. The had seats for passengers. We had a wild time on the trip..
They still had normal passenger seats back in the 90's when I used to ride on it quite regularly. People would end up sleeping on the floor between the seats in the good old days! Look like it has changed a lot. I'd love to take another ride one day, travel in style.
Yes, it's definitely a once in a lifetime trip. :)
Wow, I hope u can show us more videos of train journey across Australia
That's the plan! Thank you!
Watched just now the great ride to darwin so clean and tidy hope one day i shall also be able to travel..
From India
I hope so too!
Your videos are so interesting and informative bro.
Very enjoyable video. Cheers!
Thank you!
I❤️ this train .I ❤️ Aus from India 🇮🇳🇳🇿
Nicely narrated and beautifully videographed ,👍
Thank you so much 😀
It's one of my dreams to take "The Ghan" and "The Indian-Pacific" in Australia and "The Canadien" et "The Atrantique" au Canada; in my future.
Thanks a lot for the nice video on the You-Tube.
Thank you! Yes, they're all great trains! So many to do ... need more time (and money!). Ha :P
@@FromtheWindowSeat
Yes, the long holidays and money are needed.
@@FromtheWindowSeat
I watch your journeys AliceSprings-Darwin too.
@@kyookatomeaki9600 Great - thank you!
Quite a decent video. I note from the voice on the intercom that Dean Duko is the Journeys Manager [eg. train manager].
Thank you!
Your channel is very enjoyable.. nice to watch something diffrent. Plus you are encouraging people to see Australia more. 👍🇦🇺 Question: do you get snacks in between the 3 main meals?
Thank you. You can get snacks in the lounge car whenever it’s open. Nuts and crisps etc.
Very well done video. Thank you
Thank you! Really appreciate that!
Brilliant😃.
Glad you liked it!
I made it as far as Alice, but I agree it's never boring, like the Indian Pacific isn't
Great video and informative
Thank you so much! Unfortunately The Ghan is currently suspended because of border restrictions but hopefully the situation will improve soon.
The Gan ,, epic train journey,, wonderfull journey
Thank you! Yes, it certainly was wonderful.
Beautiful
Thank you! Cheers!
Yes, a beautiful way to narrate,with excellent pronunciation.
Thanks so much! :)
Thanks Really Enjoyed
Great to hear!
Thank you!
Thanks!
Awesome . . .
Thank you!
Superb Presentation
Thank you! Cheers!
Great video!
Thank you! Really glad to hear you liked it!
Looks like great trip. I climbed Uluru back in 1985 :)
It was. Cheers!
🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸 thank you for the EXCELLENT VID, MATE! ❤️❤️❤️
Thank you so much! :)