A young American tourist has survived a terrifying train ride in which he clung to the outside of the legendary Ghan in the freezing dark as it hit speeds up to 110km/h in the South Australian Outback ...

It's still dark when we set out. I'm woefully under caffeinated, and yet still fizzing with excitement; it's impossible not to be. As we arrive at our destination, I see I'm not the only one. The ...

My four-day journey begins in steamy Darwin, where The Ghan’s kilometre-long silver carriages and red locomotives gleam in the Top End sun. The music in the air is courtesy of a local crooner, ...

The Ghan train – which makes the epic journey across Australia between Darwin and Adelaide, via Alice Springs – just got an upgrade courtesy of design studio Woods Bagot. Having already transformed ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Australian outback is one of the wildest places on Earth. A vast void of deserts and semi-arid wilderness, it stretches across ...

Australia’s most iconic rail trip, the Ghan, runs north from Adelaide through the harsh deserts of the center on a transcontinental journey that stretches more than 1,800 miles all the way to the ...

Australia’s entire regional train network has been completely shutdown amid a nationwide Telstra outage, bringing freight and ...