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The Indian-Pacific

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For more than a quarter of a century, one of the world's great passenger trains has made one of the world's great rail journeys: 3,438 kilometres (2,700 miles) from coast to coast of the Australian continent.

Sydney Opera house

Sydney Opera House

Geography gave the train its name:
The Indian-Pacific.Planned and built as a celebration of the long-delayed standard gauge east-west rail link completed in 1969, the Indian Pacific has given its countless thousands of passengers an exclusive view of Australia: From the suburban backyards of three capital cities to the emptiness of the vast outback.The tracks of the Indian-Pacific lead it through the history of Australia: From Sydney, where the nation had its cruel and hungry beginnings; across the mountain barrier; past the first gold strikes and through the more permanent wealth of the farming and grazing country; to the mineral bonanzas of Broken Hill and Kalgoorlie's Golden Mile.
Night stop in Kalgoorlie

There are heroes in the land of the Indian- Pacific: Among them the bold engineers who built railways where lesser men saw horse paths; the locomotive driver who became Prime Minister of Australia; the nameless miners and navvies and pioneers who braved the Australian bush. If there are villains, among them must surely be those who have made uncertain the future of Australia's great travel adventure, this train called the Indian-Pacific.

Kalgoorlie - Hannan Street

The Indian-Pacific's main story was written by Jim Downes (A big country, The Ghan)
and photographed and edited by Berthold Daum(The Ghan).

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Hardcover 250 by 230 mm Dustjacket 112 pp full colourISBN 0-646-21263-4

**Table of Contents**
In The Beginning... The Train Locomotives The Backyards of Sydney Up Whitton's Way Beyond the Mountains Gold, Silver, Bronze The Prime Minister from the Footplate Top Soil	Rails West The Broken Hill A Tram to Silverton? The World beyond the Streetlights A Colony of Free Settlers Adelaide Land of Wine and Mine Spencer Gulf A Breeze of Eyre	The Outback Desert Life Tarcoola Nulla Arbor P.O.W.s Railwaying at its Wildest Christmas Day 1996 in Cook The West The Golden Mile Through the Wheat Belt

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