The Ghan - taking Australia's iconic rail journey | Adelaide to Alice Springs

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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: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yjTcUBj9lEs The Ghan is operated by Journey Beyond Expeditions. The Ghan fares and timetable: https://journeybeyondrail.com.au/guest-information/fares-and-timetables/the-ghan-2020-2021-fares-timetable/ 🚉 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. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCjHD7hSVNVj3Hwm6zmgFhrA Image credits: Camel Train, Blinman, 1907, State Library of South Australia collection B 49155 https://collections.slsa.sa.gov.au/resource/B+49155 The Ghan route map: Bidgee, CC BY 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0, 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 (YouTube Music Library) Communicator by Reed Mathis (YouTube Music Library)