The twelve-hundred kilometre narrow gauge railway from Port Augusta to Alice Springs served the Outback of Australia for 100 years. Starting in 1878 as the Port

Some readers will be familiar with Nigel Welbourn’s long running series of books, covering lost railways in Britain and Ireland. This new book Lost Railways o

A concise account of the origin and building of the historic South Australian railway line between Port Augusta and Alice Springs. Built between 1897 and 1927 t

Over the last two and a half years, Chris Tarrant has travelled, literally, all around the world filming Extreme Railway Journeys for Channel 5. The hugely succ

A loco drivers historic description of the remote area line between Port Augusta and Alice Springs, Which was begun in 1878 and closed in 1980, then replaced by