That is going to look extra like sunsets and sunrises from The Ghan and that’s as a result of they actually have been that superb touring from Adelaide to Darwin and again. I definitely had an pleasing time working with Journey Past Rail as a Hospitality Attendant. Hats off to actually each single individual on the practice that works to make the journeys exemplary for the company. Actually every individual on the drew is great.
It was definitely one thing else touring from Adelaide at evening to the primary cease at Marla for dawn and the dawn. The panorama had reworked fully. And the dawn turned out to be, effectively, spectacular. There is no such thing as a practice station or platform at Marls, and the company’ descent is aided with metallic steps at each carriage door.
All pictures on this characteristic have been shot on the Google Pixel 9 Professional in March 2025.
As you may see, the colors modified dramatically over the course of the time that the practice was stopped at Marla. Subsequent cease was going to be Alice Springs!
After which it was time for my first time setting foot in Darwin. The welcome skies have been extra spectacular than I might’ve imagined! The climate jogged my memory of India. Scorching and muggy, which bought progressively higher because it cooled down within the night, however nonetheless muggy. The crew stays in a single day at a resort and is able to head again to the practice early the following morning.
Good days and good recollections!
Then the journey is basically the identical on the way in which again, with completely different off-train experiences for company. My pictures present a restricted perception into all of the stops as a result of once you’re on the crew, you barely have time to look out the window, a lot much less {photograph}! I did my finest. It was, certainly, an expertise of a lifetime.
The subsequent morning, on the Darwin Prepare Station, company are welcomes with wining and eating and dwell music, earlier than they board The Ghan. The Journey Past trains are a cultural expertise reasonably than merely “trains”.
A couple of extra sunrises and sunsets, spectacular modifications in panorama, a pleasant non-alcoholic Maggie Glowing Chardonnay, which I ended up pouring for lots of company, a lovely Moon and my Visitor Expertise Supervisor, Matthew, who I miss dearly. Take a look at how he appears to be like at The Ghan beneath a star lit sky!
I’m grateful that I bought a chance to work on the trains for so long as I did. I’ll undoubtedly not have the ability to try this once more as a result of my bones is not going to enable me! It has taken some time to course of and combine this expertise, which is why I’m writing and publishing this in January 2026.
If the Journey Past trains ever had a gap for a photographer to cowl their journeys seasonally, I’d soar at that. However the job of hospitality is finest left to the professionals.
As on the date of writing and publishing this, the March tickets for The Ghan are already offered out. The Ghan begins its journey yearly in March and runs until November.
Earlier picture story options from The Nice Southern, The Indian Pacific & The Nitmiluk Gorge Cruise.
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