Re: Suggested Australian train journeys during a 3-week vacation?

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

It is always hard to answer questions of personal taste.
My vote says to go for variety.
ie: alight from IP, spend the night in Kalgoorlie (Railway Hotel, opposite
the station, has been done up after being gutted by fire a decade ago), and
catch Prospector to gain a different experience.

Daylink is a bus for most of its journey, connecting with a train at
Bendigo: which gives you the chance for different equipment, and to view
the historic architecture of this pioneering mainline, built in the British
style.

Why go to Tasmania and miss Queensland completely?

A far more efficient routing is to fly into Sydney and out of Perth:

Sydney - Brisbane - Townsville - Mt Isa - bus - Alice Springs - Ghan -
Adelaide - IP - Sydney - Canberra - Yass Jn - Melbourne - Adelaide -
Kalgoorlie - Perth - Bunbury - Perth.

Tasmania can be done by flying or ferrying from & to Melbourne.

You must work for the airline industry to have so many flying sectors.  Who
flies from Darwin to Norway?

-- 
Regards
Roderick Smith
Rail News Victoria Editor

Bjorn P. Munch <Bjoern.Munch@clustra.no> wrote in article 

I have mooderated my travel plans a bit.  Here is my proposed schedule
(showing where I'll stay, not where I'll have excursion *from* those
places).  All dates in March.
2. Arrive Sydney at noon.
5. Train to Canberra
6. Fly to Devonport (via Melbourne)
8. Bus to Hobart
9. Fly to Adelaide (via Melbourne)
9. Board the Indian Pacific to Perth
11. Arrival Perth in the morning
12/13. Fly to Alice Springs
16. Take The Ghan to Adelaide
17/18. Train? to Melbourne
22. Fly to Darwin and then home.