AT LAST, 126 YEARS after the north-to-south transcontinental route was conceived, Australia’s legendary Ghan train is running the entire 1,851 miles between Adelaide and Darwin. Named for the ...

Australia’s most iconic rail trip, the Ghan, runs north from Adelaide through the harsh deserts of the center on a transcontinental journey that stretches more than 1,800 miles all the way to the ...

I am lying at this moment on a little couch on the lower berth of a bunk bed on The Ghan train, feeling every vibration. The rhythm of the rumbling rail track reverberate in my ears, as if Earth is ...

The Ghan train – which makes the epic journey across Australia between Darwin and Adelaide, via Alice Springs – just got an upgrade courtesy of design studio Woods Bagot. Having already transformed ...

The Ghan train is more than 700m long. There are moments in a lifetime of travel adventures that I’ll never forget, and two happened on the Ghan journey. One was sitting outside on a cold, starry ...

Editor’s note: Travel writer Gretchen Kelly is on a two-week trip across Australia in celebration of Australia Day and G’Day USA, a series of events connecting the two great ex-British colonies.

SCEPTICS abounded when a 1,420 km railway line opened in 2004, linking Alice Springs and Darwin through one of Australia’s most remote outback regions. The Northern Territory, covering about a fifth ...