This blog is rapidly turning into a personal ledger of planes, trains, and automobiles. So be it. Train travel is a relaxing, meditative way to see the Australian outback, and gives you a real appreciation of the breadth and depth of this amazing country. But rail travel in Australia is not for the impatient or …
- One of two surviving signalboxes at Ararat, relocated and restored after retirement in 1996.
- Concrete tank at Bordertown, falling to ruin
- Horsham Platform 1 – no longer used at the western end
- Great Southern Rail also uses NR-class locos to haul The Ghan
- An abandoned station building at Murtoa
- The Overland service stops briefly at Stawell






