Re: Indian Pacific

["Roderick Smith" <rodsmith@werple.net.au>]

Qestions like this are hard to answer: your tastes might not be my tastes. 
Most of the point of IP is its length (but no more than Sunset Limited).

If you are holidaying Melbourne to Melbourne, you could do the circuit
Melbourne - Sydney - Broken Hill - Adelaide - Melbourne (which would give
you a range of Australian travel types).  You could even pick up at Sydney
on your flight.

The best stopover on this plan would be at Broken Hill: a class outback
Australian mining town, with period architecture and a railway museum.


You would have most of a day in Adelaide: long enough to sample its
suburban network, and visit the railway museum there (much SA equipment was
influenced by USA practice).

Schedules are on Railpage Australia.
-- 
Regards
Roderick Smith
Rail News Victoria Editor

Montague Meyer <slogans@worldnet.att.net> wrote in article
<73snti$f3s@bgtnsc01.worldnet.att.net>...
> This is my first use of a news group, so, if I am barging in forgive.  I
am
> interested in riding the Indian Pacific, but have limited time on my
> upcoming holiday to Au  (Im a Yank), must spend time with the relatives
in
> Melb.
> So, I'd like suggestions about WHAT PART of the Indian Pacific is the one
> NOT TO BE MISSED?  How long is the entire trip?  What side trips on rails
> should I take?  I have about a week or week and a half to spend on the
> Australian rails.  Open to suggestions.  I will be starting and ending my
> time in Australia in Melbourne.
> Thanks - Adam
> 
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