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 wonderful touring from Adelaide to Darwin and again. I definitely had an pleasurable time working with Journey Past Rail as a Hospitality Attendant. Hats off to actually each single particular person on the prepare that works to make the journeys exemplary for the friends. Actually every particular person 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 remodeled completely. And the dawn turned out to be, properly, spectacular. There isn’t any prepare station or platform at Marls, and the friends’ descent is aided with steel steps at each carriage door.
All pictures on this function 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 prepare 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. Sizzling and muggy, which acquired progressively higher because it cooled down within the night, however nonetheless muggy. The crew stays in a single day at a lodge and is able to head again to the prepare early the following morning.
Good days and good recollections!
Then the journey is actually the identical on the way in which again, with completely different off-train experiences for friends. My pictures present a restricted perception into all of the stops as a result of if you’re on the crew, you barely have time to look out the window, a lot much less {photograph}! I did my greatest. It was, certainly, an expertise of a lifetime.
The following morning, on the Darwin Prepare Station, friends are welcomes with wining and eating and reside music, earlier than they board The Ghan. The Journey Past trains are a cultural expertise relatively than merely “trains”.
A number of extra sunrises and sunsets, spectacular modifications in panorama, a pleasant non-alcoholic Maggie Glowing Chardonnay, which I ended up pouring for lots of friends, a stupendous Moon and my Visitor Expertise Supervisor, Matthew, who I miss dearly. Take a look at how he seems to be at The Ghan beneath a star lit sky!
I’m grateful that I acquired a chance to work on the trains for so long as I did. I’ll undoubtedly not be capable to try this once more as a result of my bones won’t permit 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 greatest 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.
I’m an Adelaide-based multi-disciplinary photographer. For images and weblog commissions, contact me on [email protected] or textual content on +61429048917
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