Along The Old Ghan Line
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Along The Old Ghan Line: A Guide to Discovering the Old Ghan Railway
by Jeremy Browne
The twelve-hundred kilometre narrow gauge railway from Port Augusta to Alice Springs served the Outback of Australia for 100 years. Starting in 1878 as the Port Augusta and Government Gums Railway, it became the Great Northern Railway and then the Central Australian Railway. The once or twice a week passenger train became known as the 'Ghan'.
Partially by-passed in the 1950s, the old narrow gauge line was closed in 1980 and the rails pulled up. Two sections have survived - the first 40 kms through Pichi Richi Pass which operates as a Heritage Railway and the final 23 kms into Alice Springs, which currently no longer operates.
Although the rails have gone, there is still much to see along the route. The author has compiled this Guide to the old railway - what is there and what was there and how to find locations, mostly through his own travels and with his photographs taken over more than fifty years.
Jeremy has been a railfan for as long as he can remember. Starting as a trainspotter in London in 1959 aged 11, this interest grew into a broader interest in all aspects of railways. His interest has taken him around the world, to witness the end of steam and see many Heritage Railways. As a Foundation member of the Pichi Richi Railway Preservation Society, his almost 50 years of involvement has included track-work, engine and carriage maintenance, organising special events and railfan weekends and he is still active as a locomotive Fireman and train Guard. He is a Trustee of the National Railway Museum and has written numerous articles for railway magazines.
283 pages
A4size, 1.4cm thick
1090g
ISBN 978 0 646 82187 0
by Jeremy Browne
The twelve-hundred kilometre narrow gauge railway from Port Augusta to Alice Springs served the Outback of Australia for 100 years. Starting in 1878 as the Port Augusta and Government Gums Railway, it became the Great Northern Railway and then the Central Australian Railway. The once or twice a week passenger train became known as the 'Ghan'.
Partially by-passed in the 1950s, the old narrow gauge line was closed in 1980 and the rails pulled up. Two sections have survived - the first 40 kms through Pichi Richi Pass which operates as a Heritage Railway and the final 23 kms into Alice Springs, which currently no longer operates.
Although the rails have gone, there is still much to see along the route. The author has compiled this Guide to the old railway - what is there and what was there and how to find locations, mostly through his own travels and with his photographs taken over more than fifty years.
Jeremy has been a railfan for as long as he can remember. Starting as a trainspotter in London in 1959 aged 11, this interest grew into a broader interest in all aspects of railways. His interest has taken him around the world, to witness the end of steam and see many Heritage Railways. As a Foundation member of the Pichi Richi Railway Preservation Society, his almost 50 years of involvement has included track-work, engine and carriage maintenance, organising special events and railfan weekends and he is still active as a locomotive Fireman and train Guard. He is a Trustee of the National Railway Museum and has written numerous articles for railway magazines.
283 pages
A4size, 1.4cm thick
1090g
ISBN 978 0 646 82187 0