An Outback Trek with a Silver Streak ; the Ghan's Mainly Oap Passengers Might Not Make It Hip, but the Darwin-Adelaide Rail Link Is Proving a Popular Ride

Evening Standard - London › October 22, 2004

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THEY should have called it The Gran. Never in the history of rail journeys had so many elderly people been in one dining car. "Australians like to see their country," explains Barry, in his seventies, as we trundled through the Outback.

As with many passengers on this new, 47-hour journey linking Darwin and Adelaide, Barry and his wife were silver nomads doing the 1,850-mile trip both ways. "We watch The Bill," Barry confides, "so know all about your problems in London." My problem, actually, was being stuck on a three-day, long-distance OAP outing.

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An Outback Trek with a Silver Streak ; the Ghan's Mainly Oap Passengers Might Not Make It Hip, but the Darwin-Adelaide Rail Link Is Proving a Popular Ride

Hip The Ghan ain't, and while its grey-haired fusspots are affable, they kill any sense that this is an adventure. The Ghan is mind-bogglingly long - at times stretching fo...

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