Outback Xplorer

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.

Stations

1. 0 kmCentral +6
2. 12 kmStrathfield +2
3. 23 kmParramatta +1
4. 35 kmBlacktown +1
5. 55 kmPenrith Station +1
6. 108 kmKatoomba +1
7. Show 6 more stations

   1. 153 kmLithgow +1
   2. 235 kmBathurst Station
   3. 284 kmBlayney Station
   4. 315 kmOrange East Fork
   5. 435 kmParkes Station
   6. 535 kmCondobolin Station
8. 608 kmEuabalong West Station
9. 805 kmIvanhoe Station
10. 869 kmDarnick Station
11. 995 kmMenindee Station
12. 1,112 kmBroken Hill

The stations OpenStreetMap lists for a train that runs this route end to end, in order, with the distance along the line as drawn here. A train may skip some of them. A +N after a station: N other routes on this map stop or end there, and the map draws it as a station where lines meet.

How this line was checked

• Line drawn from OpenStreetMap relation 8406941 — the same nodes OpenStreetMap holds for this railway, thinned to within 69 m of them
• Checked against OpenStreetMap: the whole line lies on real track, a median 19 m from it
• The operator publishes this line's timetable: NSW TrainLink — a place to look it up, not a check of our drawing
• Wikipedia has an article for this line

Questions and answers

How long is the Outback Xplorer?

The Outback Xplorer runs 1,125 km from Sydney to Broken Hill.

How long does the Outback Xplorer take?

The fastest scheduled journey is ≈ 13 h for the 1,125 km. That is an average of 87 km/h end to end. The line's top service speed is 145 km/h.

Who runs the Outback Xplorer?

NSW TrainLink, with Xplorer DMU.

How old is the Outback Xplorer?

The line has been in service since 1996. That is the year the atlas dates it from: for a modern brand running over an older railway, it is the railway's date, not the brand's.

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