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The Overland train

August 13, 2011 at 6:19 pm Leave a Comment
The Overland train, Adelaide to Melbourne

I took The Overland train from Adelaide to Melbourne on Monday with my seven-year-old son James. I wanted a slow journey to connect with James and wean him off computer games for entertainment. The train was perfect. It’s a comfortable 828km trip, departing 7.40am from the Adelaide Parklands station just 1km from our home in Mile End. We had to arrive an hour beforehand to collect pre-paid tickets and check-in our baggage. It was immediately apparent that most of our fellow passengers were elderly, with a smattering of backpackers.

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Adelaide Parklands Rail Terminal

May 28, 2011 at 4:58 pm Leave a Comment
The Ghan

I went for a walk to the Adelaide Parklands Rail Terminal this afternoon. It’s about one kilometre from where we live at Mile End. The terminal is for interstate trains to Melbourne, the Indian Pacific and The Ghan. Suburban trains bypass the station. The terminal was built in 1984 as a dedicated long-haul passenger railway station when Adelaide Railway Station was redeveloped for suburban trains only. Adelaide is said to be the only city in the world where passengers can catch trains on two distinct trans-continental routes.

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Memory fragments

January 13, 2009 at 4:38 pm 9 Comments

Do you ever have random flashbacks? I don’t mean of harrowing events. It would be understandable to recall a war, physical assault or natural disaster. Sometimes I remember things randomly from the past. Little things, like finding a dead cow on the farm at Pambula. Or riding a bike in the rain. Some of these [...]

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The Prospector

December 2, 2007 at 4:30 pm Leave a Comment
Prospector train, Kalgoorlie

Juliet is on The Prospector travelling to Perth. The state-of-the-art high speed Prospector, introduced into service on June 28, 2004, can travel at up to 160kmh, enabling it to complete the 653km trip from Perth to Kalgoorlie in under seven hours. Track works are under way at the moment to make it faster. It’s a [...]

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