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Originally named the Afghan Express after the pioneering Afghan cameleers who blazed a trail north into the Red Centre of Australia in the eighteen hundreds, The Ghan was scheduled to depart Alice Springs for Darwin, via Katherine, at 6:00PM.
At an approximate length of seven hundred and seventy metres, and pushed-pulled by twin diesel locomotives, the train would slice through the central Australian night at an average speed of eighty-five kilometers an hour. It would arrive at Katherine at 9:00AM the next morning before departing again at 1:00PM for Darwin, three hundred kilometers further north.
Offering several levels of passenger comfort catering to the varying budget limits of the traveler, Amber Martin, Ebony Aitken and Anna Blaine elected to ride in Red Service.
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