Classic route
Outback Xplorer
Sydney → Broken Hill · Australia
- Distance
- 1,125 km
- Fastest time
- ≈ 13 h
- Average speed
- 87 km/h
- Top speed
- 145 km/h
- Operator
- NSW TrainLink
- Train
- Xplorer DMU
- Countries
- Australia
- In service since
- 1996
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
Weekly railcar over the Blue Mountains and out past Parkes into the saltbush: thirteen hours from Sydney Central to the silver town on the South Australian border.
How this line was checked
- The operator publishes this line's timetable: NSW TrainLink — a place to look it up, not a check of our drawing
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