Old Ghan Railway Oodnadatta Track Lake Eyre Adelaide to Alice Springs Tour Return Option

Old Ghan Railway Oodnadatta Track Lake Eyre Adelaide to Alice Springs Tour Return Option

Old Ghan Railway Oodnadatta Track & Lake Eyre Adelaide to Alice Springs Tour – Follow the Old Ghan railway line from Port Augusta to Alice Springs with Pitchi Ritchi railway to Quorn then 4WD via the Old Ghan Railway & Overland Telegraph Line (OTL), via Beltana Farina Marree via Lake Eyre shore walk, Curdimurka, Coward Springs, Strangeways, Algebuckina, William Creek, Oodnadatta, Dalhousie Springs, Mt Dare, Simpson Desert, to Alice Springs. Small Group 4WD touring from Adelaide, Sydney, Melbourne, Broken Hill, Marree, with Lake Eyre Flight optional
Daily Overnights + Highlights

If from Sydney – via Broken Hill pickup option with Peterborough 3 gauge yard, stunning light show and overnight – please ASK

Depart from Adelaide – Arrive day prior to visit the National Rail Museum & rail photo exhibition next day

If travelling from Sydney – Broken Hill Optional from Sydney visit Cowra engine sheds & Peterborough Roundhouse, night show and 3 gauge yard – please ask
Day 1 – Pickups in Adelaide from 8 am from your CBD location to visit the National Rail Museum & rail photo exhibition. Depart Adelaide 12 noon via.Port Pirie, (with historic museum) Augusta, Pt Wakefield, wind farms, Pt Pirie port and rail history, Spencers Gulf to visit the Wadlata Outback Centre then overnight Port Augusta

Day 2 – The Rail Ride – Ride the steam train Pitchi Richi Afghan Express from Pt Augusta to Quorn, Inspect steam engines, engine sheds and yards

Depart Port Augusta railway Station 10:30 am – See the ancient Flinders Ranges landscape unfold before you on the full-day Afghan Express from Port Augusta Railway Station to the historic outback railway town of Quorn.

Travelling the old Ghan route over red earth and bluebush plains from Port Augusta, you’ll watch the ranges creep ever-closer before entering the Pichi Richi Pass with its rocky outcrops, dry riverbeds and beautiful hilly scenery.

The Afghan Express is the name railwaymen gave to the passenger train that ran from Terowie to Oodnadatta, through Quorn, in 1923. In time, this was abbreviated to the Ghan.

The railway was ultimately extended to Alice Springs by 1929. The Ghan used the Pichi Richi Railway route until 1956 when a new standard-gauge
railway from Stirling North to Brachina bypassed the narrow gauge railway through the Pichi Richi Pass.