Great Southern (train) New South Wales, while the Brisbane to Adelaide service will take four days with beachside dining in northern New South Wales, a guided tour of the Hunter Valley and Newcastle, and a stop at the Twelve Apostles. Great Southern (train) Great Southern is an upcoming Australian passenger rail service operated by Great Southern Rail between Adelaide and Brisbane both ways. The inaugural journey is planned to depart from Adelaide on 6 December 2019. Similar to Great Southern Rail's other luxury rail holidays on "The Ghan" and the "Indian Pacific", "Great Southern" will be a slow journey across the country with
The Ghan contrary view is that the name was a veiled insult. In 1891, the railway from Quorn reached remote Oodnadatta where an itinerant population of around 150 cameleers were based, generically called "Afghans". "The Ghan Express" name originated with train crews in the 1890s as a taunt to officialdom because, when an expensive sleeping car was put on from Quorn to Oodnadatta, "on the first return journey the only passenger was an Afghan", mocking its commercial viability. By as early as 1924, because of the notorious unreliability of this fortnightly steam train, European pastoralists commonly called it "in ribald fashion The