The last narrow-gauge Ghan leaves Marree

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1. Story
2. A new standard-gauge line to Alice Springs, built well to the west of the original via Tarcoola, replaces the Central Australia Railway; the last narrow-gauge Ghan departs Marree on 25 November 1980. This is the rarest event in this Journey — a long-distance route being abandoned and re-surveyed rather than inherited — and it happened because the original alignment was wrong in a way that maintenance could not fix.
3. Knowledge
4. The Ghan
5. Track gauge as a colonial decision
6. The last narrow-gauge Ghan leaves Marree
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.