The Ghan for more freight to travel through the region, leading to a hope that Darwin will serve as another trade link with Asia. In preparation for the connection to Darwin, one of the locomotives was named after Steve Irwin in a hope that the internationally recognised face of Australia would help promote the new service and tourism to the region. The modern Ghan has featured in an episode of Channel 5's series "Chris Tarrant: Extreme Railways", and the Mighty Trains series. It was also the subject of a slow television documentary called 'The Ghan: Australia's Greatest Train Journey'. The entire journey
A-Train Released on the DoCoMo 504i/505i/506i/900 mobile phones as a service planning game and distributed by Hudson Soft. Players had to pay a monthly fee to access the game. The game is now no longer available as of March 2012. A-Train 7 is a railroad simulation for PC platform. It is the successor of A-Train 6. Marketed as the 20th anniversary title for the A-Train series, it revives the urban development game play that had been missing since A-Train 5. It was released on June 26, 2005 for Windows XP and Vista. Several expansion packs were released for the game. Released