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Victoria’s current half-price train fares (less than $6 a day) make exploring the state by rail ridiculously good value.

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Crossing the harsh terrain of the Australian outback, the Ghan, a luxury train, and its 3,000 kms of track need constant and skilled maintenance. [narrator] This is the Ghan, one of Australia's most ...

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For a whopping 57 miles, a runaway train loaded with iron ore hurtled down tracks in Western Australia with nobody on board. The train was eventually deliberately derailed, creating a dramatic crash ...

Most things don’t happen the way they do in the movies. Changes are less sudden, incidents less surprising, humans less attractive. But when a runaway train tore through the Australian outback, the ...

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