The Ghan begins running on the Central Australia Railway

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1. Story
2. A passenger service reaches Alice Springs over the 1,067 mm narrow-gauge Central Australia Railway. The alignment crosses country subject to flash flooding and washaways, and the line acquires a reputation for delays measured in days rather than hours. It is the counter-example to this Journey's general rule: an alignment can be bad enough that it is not worth keeping, and this one was not.
3. Knowledge
4. The Ghan
5. Track gauge as a colonial decision
6. The Ghan begins running on the Central Australia Railway
7. Connections
8. The Ghan
9. Track gauge as a colonial decision
10. Track gauge as a colonial decision
11. The Ghan begins running on the Central Australia Railway
12. The last narrow-gauge Ghan leaves Marree
13. The Ghan runs through to Darwin for the first time
14. The Blue Train
15. Rovos Rail
16. The Ghan
17. The Union Limited and Union Express begin running to the mail ships
18. The Ghan begins running on the Central Australia Railway
19. The last narrow-gauge Ghan leaves Marree
20. Rovos Rail runs its first train
21. Evidence
22. Supports the Central Australia Railway as the Ghan's original 1,067 mm narrow-gauge alignment from 1929, its replacement by a standard-gauge line via Tarcoola in 1980, and the 2004 Darwin extension. V55 verification basis: the library collection was identified as an authority and the chronology was carried in attributed Australian rail-history summaries; slsa.sa.gov.au was not fetched.