The Ghan experience | Alice Springs to Darwin | Gold Service review

Step aboard The Ghan for the second part of the 2979km trip from Adelaide to Darwin. Today's video begins in Australia's Red Centre - Alice Springs. We travel in Gold Service for this incredible experience. Find out what the cabin is like, see highlights from the journey and see a selection of the silver service meals on offer.

The Ghan is the world's longest passenger train (excluding trains that also feature freight cars, such as the Auto Train in the USA). Today's train has 36 carriages hauled by two NR class diesels and is 902m long.

This is the second of two videos documenting my experience on The Ghan. Watch the first video, from Adelaide to Alice Springs, here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CUqyK0o9Uvo

This video was filmed 19-20 October 2020 when there was no community transmission of COVID-19 in South Australia and the Northern Territory, so face masks were not required. A range of measures were in place on the train to minimise health risks including pre departure temperature checks and reduced capacities in the dining and lounge cars. Passengers were seated in a checkerboard layout in the dining car.

The Ghan is operated by Journey Beyond Expeditions.

The Ghan fares and timetable:
https://journeybeyondrail.com.au/guest-information/fares-and-timetables/the-ghan-2020-2021-fares-timetable/

🚉 Train: The Ghan
🚉 Operator: Journey Beyond Rail Expeditions
🚉 Locomotives: Two NR class diesels (NR75, NR109) operated by Pacific National
🚉 Cabin: C4
🚉 Route: Alice Springs railway station - Darwin Berrimah Terminal
🚉 Distance: 1420km
🚉 Train number: 1AD8
🚉 Class: Gold Service twin cabin, single occupancy (originally booked as Gold Service single cabin)
🚉 Travel dates: 19-20 October 2020

EQUIPMENT:
🚉 Camera: GoPro Hero 8, GoPro Hero 6 and iPhone XR

Chapters:
00:00 Introduction
01:30 Gold Service twin cabin tour
02:50 Dining times and excursions
03:15 Departing Alice Springs
04:10 Outback Explorer Lounge
05:00 Turn down service
05:25 Dinner
05:47 Day 2
06:27 Breakfast
06:42 Approaching Katherine
07:07 Katherine and Nitmiluk Gorge
08:29 External view of train
09:18 Departing Katherine
10:12 Lunch
10:34 Overview and thoughts
12:22 Adelaide River
13:55 Approaching Darwin
14:27 Darwin Berrimah Terminal, pros and cons

Image credits:
The Ghan route map: Bidgee, CC BY 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Map of the five lines comprising the Adelaide–Darwin rail corridor:
SCHolar44, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Map_of_the_five_lines_comprising_the_Adelaide%E2%80%93Darwin_rail_corridor.png

Photo of Adelaide River Railway Station:
Reinhard Dietrich, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Station_Adelaide_River_2.jpg

Soundtrack:
Know Myself by Patrick Patrikios (YouTube Music Library)

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