Great Southern Railway

The title of this article is ambiguous. See Great Southern Railway (disambiguation) for additional meanings .

The Ghan with inscription Great Southern Railway

Great Southern Railway (GSR) is a railroad company in Australia that operates a number of long-distance trains for the tourist market on routes of the standard gauge network. This includes:

• Indian Pacific ( Sydney - Adelaide - Perth )
• The Ghan ( Adelaide - Alice Springs - Darwin (Northern Territory) )
• The Overland ( Melbourne - Adelaide )
• The Southern Spirit (different routes, eight to ten times a year)

The company was created with the privatization of the Australian National Railway Company in 1997, from which the Great Southern Railway took over the operation of the first three trains mentioned and set up The Southern Spirit in 2008. While the fleet of cars used to run the trains belongs to the Great Southern Railway, the locomotives are rented from the Pacific National Railway Company .

The Great Southern Railway's parent company is Serco Asia Pacific.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Great Southern Rail launches new luxury rail cruise The Southern Spirit . June 17, 2008. Archived from the original on July 22, 2008. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved June 24, 2008. 
2. ↑ Information taken from the article of the same name on the English language Wikipedia

Web links

• Official German representation of Rail Australia: railaustralia.eu
• Great Southern Railway
• The Southern Spirit