Luxury route
Great Southern
Adelaide → Brisbane · Australia
- Distance
- 2,885 km
- Fastest time
- ≈ 3 days
- Top speed
- 115 km/h
- Operator
- Journey Beyond
- Train
- Gold & Platinum sleeper
- Countries
- Australia
- In service since
- 2019
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
The Ghan’s summer sibling. Adelaide to Brisbane the long way round, with Grampians sunsets, Canberra and a Coffs Harbour beach stop en route.
How this line was checked
- The 685 km this route shares with OpenStreetMap relation 16305116 is drawn from that relation's own nodes, thinned to within under 25 m of them
- Checked against OpenStreetMap: 65.5% of this line lies within 250 m of real track (median 121 m); the longest stretch away from it is 28 km
- The operator publishes this line's timetable: Journey Beyond — a place to look it up, not a check of our drawing
- Wikipedia has an article for this line
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