🇦🇺 Operator
Train routes operated by Journey Beyond
4 routes · classic 1 · luxury 3
Journey Beyond runs 4 of the routes in the World Train Map atlas, 11,044 km of railway across 1 country. The longest is the Indian Pacific at 4,352 km; the fastest is the Indian Pacific, running up to 115 km/h; the oldest line it runs over here opened in 1887.
The company itself dates to 1997, filed on Wikidata as a railway undertaking. What this page says about the company comes from Journey Beyond's own Wikidata item, checked against the countries its routes here actually cross before any of it is used; everything about the railway is counted from this atlas. Official site ↗ · Wikipedia ↗ · Wikidata Q1544385 ↗
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- 4
- Total length
- 11,044 km
- Countries
- Australia
- Fastest
- Indian Pacific · 115 km/h
- Longest
- Indian Pacific · 4,352 km
- Oldest line here
- 1887
- Company founded
- 1997
- Type
- railway undertaking
Classic (1)
- The Overland
Running since 1887 as the Intercolonial Express, Australia’s oldest interstate rail journey now crosses the Wimmera wheat belt twice weekly.
Wikipedia ↗
Luxury (3)
- Indian Pacific
Ocean to ocean across Australia, including the world’s longest railway straight: 478 dead-level kilometres on the Nullarbor.
Wikipedia ↗ - The Ghan
Named for the Afghan cameleers: 2,979 km straight through the Red Centre, completed to Darwin only in 2004.
Wikipedia ↗ - Great Southern
The Ghan’s summer sibling. Adelaide to Brisbane the long way round, with Grampians sunsets, Canberra and a Coffs Harbour beach stop en route.
Wikipedia ↗
Photos via Wikimedia Commons — each route page credits the author & licence
How many train routes does Journey Beyond run?
4 of the routes in this atlas are Journey Beyond services, covering 11,044 km across 1 country (Australia). That is what this atlas draws, not the operator's whole network — a national railway runs thousands of local services no map of notable journeys would list.
What is the fastest Journey Beyond train?
The Indian Pacific, Sydney to Perth, at up to 115 km/h. Its fastest scheduled run takes ≈ 65 h over 4,352 km.
Does Journey Beyond run night trains?
Not in this atlas. All 4 Journey Beyond routes listed here are daytime services.
When was Journey Beyond founded?
Wikidata records the company's inception as 1997, and files it as a railway undertaking. The oldest railway it runs over in this atlas opened in 1887 — the line and the company are rarely the same age, and this page dates both.
Countries Journey Beyond runs in
- 🇦🇺 Train routes in Australia 26 routes
Other operators in Australia
- Queensland Rail 6 routes
- NSW TrainLink 5 routes