Night trains
Night trains from Brisbane
3 sleeper routes · Australia
3 night trains serve Brisbane in the World Train Map atlas, with sleeper routes to Longreach, Sydney, Charleville. The longest is the Spirit of the Outback at 1,325 km (≈ 25 h); the oldest service on this list has run since 1954. Board in the evening, wake up 1,325 km closer. Every route below links to its full story and the world railway map.
- Spirit of the Outback
Up the coast to Rockhampton, then dead west into Matilda country: sleepers and the Tuckerbox diner, 1,325 km to the stockman’s capital.
Wikipedia ↗ - Brisbane XPT
The overnight run still books twin sleepers as it corkscrews through the Border Loop spiral, blasted through rainforest ranges in 1932.
Wikipedia ↗ - The Westlander
Over the Toowoomba range by night and out across the Darling Downs: twice a week until the wheat gives way to mulga at Charleville.
Wikipedia ↗
Photos via Wikimedia Commons — each route page credits the author & licence
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