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The Ghan runs through to Darwin for the first time

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The extension north from Alice Springs having opened in January 2004, the first through service leaves Adelaide on 1 February and arrives at Darwin on 3 February, completing a south-to-north crossing of the continent first proposed in the nineteenth century. It is the only route in this Journey whose principal alignment is younger than the passengers riding it.

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  1. Story
  2. The extension north from Alice Springs having opened in January 2004, the first through service leaves Adelaide on 1 February and arrives at Darwin on 3 February, completing a south-to-north crossing of the continent first proposed in the nineteenth century. It is the only route in this Journey whose principal alignment is younger than the passengers riding it.
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  4. The Ghan
  5. The Ghan runs through to Darwin for the first time
  6. Connections
  7. The Ghan
  8. Track gauge as a colonial decision
  9. The Ghan begins running on the Central Australia Railway
  10. The last narrow-gauge Ghan leaves Marree
  11. The Ghan runs through to Darwin for the first time
  12. Evidence
  13. 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.
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