The Ghan Departing Alice Springs HeavitreeGap 16/12/10

The southbound Ghan with Adelaide the destination, leaving Alice Springs in the Northern Territory of Australia, passing through Heavitree Gap. This location is in Central Australia; the time - Thursday December 16th 2010 about a2PM. This train had on its north bound run, passed through Alice Springs heading for Darwin on the Monday afternoon. The return run from Adelaide to Darwin is some six thousand kilometres. The train is scheduled to arrive in Adelaide at 1:10PM the following day. Alice Springs, is in the middle of Australia, and is at about the half way mark of the journey between Adelaide and Darwin. The train has a stop of some hours at both Alice Springs and Katherine to allow for sight seeing. Alice Springs originally came into existence as the location of an overland telegraph repeater station, built near a waterhole on the Todd River in about the 1800s. The overland telegraph, until relatively recently, before it was replaced with optical cable and microwave links, passed through Heavitree Gap alongside the rail, road and todd River. The present standard gauge railway which passes through Heavitree Gap, to Port Augusta, in about 1980, replaced the original narrow gauge line which followed a different route via Oodnadatta. The narrow gauge also passed through Heavitree Gap. The newer line branches from the Trans Australia Railway at Tarcoola. The standard gauge extension to Darwin from Alice Springs, has only beeen operating for a few years. The leading locomotive on the train in this video, NR75, interestingly, is featured in another video posted on the 'reidgck' channel which was taken in Victoria at Mangalore entitled Ghan loco on the steel train at Mangalore. The second locomotive on the train is NR1.

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[MrThroatpunch]

ive wondered what the other end looks like, now i know its a lot prettier .