The Ghan Completes Half a Journey
Nov 19, 2020 08:23:27 #
The Ghan is a weekly passenger service that runs between Adelaide in South Australia and Darwin in the Northern Territory, a distance of 2,979km (1,851miles). Some time after departing from Adelaide on Sunday 15th November 2020 a new outbreak of the Corona Virus was detected in Adelaide and the South Australia / Northern Territory border was closed while the train was in transit. After reaching Alice Springs on Monday 16th November 2020 the train was ordered to turn around and return to Adelaide with all passengers after only completing half of its usual journey to Darwin.
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Thorny Devil wrote:
The Ghan is a weekly passenger service that runs b... (show quote)
Cool train images. You caught it with nice lighting. I always seem to shoot train engines from the dark side in its shadow. Not always desired at all but that seems to be where I can safely and legally shoot from.
Nov 19, 2020 22:00:39 #
jaymatt wrote:
Nice shots of the train.
Thank you jaymatt.
Nov 19, 2020 22:01:10 #
Jay Pat wrote:
Well captured!!
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Thank you Jay Pat.
Nov 19, 2020 22:03:38 #
lamiaceae wrote:
Cool train images. You caught it with nice lighting. I always seem to shoot train engines from the dark side in its shadow. Not always desired at all but that seems to be where I can safely and legally shoot from.
Thank you for your comments Iamiaceae. I agree that staying safe does not always mean being in the best position to take the photograph.
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GrayGhost wrote:
Very NICE. Unique train. Thanks for sharing
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Thank you GrayGhost.
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Aug 1, 2021 15:36:51 #
I watched a video on one of the streaming channels that documented the entire Ghan trip. We here in the US tend to think that trips across the state of Texas or Montana are long empty spaces of land...they are nothing compared to a trip on the Ghan. Nevertheless, I would love to take the Ghan trip.
Aug 3, 2021 02:39:23 #
fredpnm wrote:
I watched a video on one of the streaming channels that documented the entire Ghan trip. We here in the US tend to think that trips across the state of Texas or Montana are long empty spaces of land...they are nothing compared to a trip on the Ghan. Nevertheless, I would love to take the Ghan trip.
I have traveled on the Ghan from Adelaide to Alice Springs three times but never all of the way to Darwin. The first two times was on the old narrow gauge railway before the standard gauge line opened in 1980.
Travel on the old Ghan was a much more "leisurely" experience taking about 50 hours to complete the journey from Adelaide to Alice Springs compared to 20 hours now. Before the standard gauge rail link was completed, traveling to Alice Springs by rail started on broad gauge (5'2") from Adelaide to Port Pirie (162 miles), then standard gauge (4'8½") to Marree via Port Augusta (315 miles) then narrow gauge (3'6") from Marree to Alice Springs (568 miles). The narrow gauge railway from Marree to Alice Springs passed through some of Australia's most barren and desolate landscapes interspersed with large sandy plains crossed by wide normally dry rivers, creeks and flood-ways. When heavy rain did fall on these inland areas many of the rivers and flood ways became raging torrents which washed away railway lines and bridges. During long dry periods and droughts, sections of the railway would become covered in deep sand. The average speed of the train over the 568 miles of narrow gauge track was 16.5 mph.
Regards,
Richard.
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