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  • Date : Oct 1979, catalogued 18 Jan 1998
  • Photographer : John Hurst
  • Medium : Agfacolor, slide number 8120
  • Description : At the passenger platform at Marree in the far north of South Australia, GM36 has done its duty in bring passengers from Port Pirie, where they had to change trains once already from the broad gauge. Now they have to transfer to the narrow gauge for the final leg of the Ghan journey to Alice Springs. But not for much longer. Within 3 months of this photo, the new standard gauge line to Alice was opened, followed somewhat later by the standard gauge into Adelaide. Now there is talk of running the Ghan from as far afield as Melbourne and Sydney, as a single gauge train. (Later note: now in operation, as of mid October 1998.)


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