Monday highlights.
Our next stop this evening is a 3 hour whistle stop in Kalgoorlie which gives us the opportunity to do a two hour bus tour and also to send emails from the Pocketmail.
Backtracking to yesterday, we spent a pleasant couple of hours in Adelaide, so Gail & I caught a shuttle bus from the Keswick rail terminal into the CBD. Sunday afternoon in town is quite busy with almost all shops in the Rundle St mall open. It was a good opportunity to stretch our legs after most of the day on board after leaving Broken Hill. We departed Adelaide about 7pm, dinner at 9pm, then a much better nights sleep. The square wheels of the train appear to have taken on a more circular shape or perhaps we are more adjusted to it.
Another great breakfast followed our wake-up cup of tea in bed, then spent most of the day chatting to new found friends and taking in the ever changing panorama. We made a very interesting whistle stop in Cook on the Nullarbor Plain. A permanent population of two, however a number of un-occupied houses are still in very good condition. This "town" would have to be one of the most isolated places we have stopped at - 2,800 km from Sydney and about 1,600 from Perth. Cook still serves as a water top-up point for all trans-continental trains and is also the place where driver change-overs take place. A number of freight trains plus Indian Pacific's in both directions utilise the rail loop here to pass each other on the mostly single trans - continental line.
Currently we are using "train time", although in WA we are still on SA time until we depart Kalgoorlie, which simplifies meal times for staff and passengers. The experience of this 4,500 km rail journey has been something we can highly recommend. Seriously consider it sometime in your life. We are amazed at the number of overseas passengers travelling with us.
Jim is having the time of his life; we reckon he knows everyone in our carriage plus two or three adjoining carriages in either direction as well as their life history.
Kevin & Gail.
www.indianpacific.blogspot.com
Backtracking to yesterday, we spent a pleasant couple of hours in Adelaide, so Gail & I caught a shuttle bus from the Keswick rail terminal into the CBD. Sunday afternoon in town is quite busy with almost all shops in the Rundle St mall open. It was a good opportunity to stretch our legs after most of the day on board after leaving Broken Hill. We departed Adelaide about 7pm, dinner at 9pm, then a much better nights sleep. The square wheels of the train appear to have taken on a more circular shape or perhaps we are more adjusted to it.
Another great breakfast followed our wake-up cup of tea in bed, then spent most of the day chatting to new found friends and taking in the ever changing panorama. We made a very interesting whistle stop in Cook on the Nullarbor Plain. A permanent population of two, however a number of un-occupied houses are still in very good condition. This "town" would have to be one of the most isolated places we have stopped at - 2,800 km from Sydney and about 1,600 from Perth. Cook still serves as a water top-up point for all trans-continental trains and is also the place where driver change-overs take place. A number of freight trains plus Indian Pacific's in both directions utilise the rail loop here to pass each other on the mostly single trans - continental line.
Currently we are using "train time", although in WA we are still on SA time until we depart Kalgoorlie, which simplifies meal times for staff and passengers. The experience of this 4,500 km rail journey has been something we can highly recommend. Seriously consider it sometime in your life. We are amazed at the number of overseas passengers travelling with us.
Jim is having the time of his life; we reckon he knows everyone in our carriage plus two or three adjoining carriages in either direction as well as their life history.
Kevin & Gail.
www.indianpacific.blogspot.com
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