Train day 3 - Adelaide to Broken Hill

Better nights sleep last night (I give credit to the red wine, Pam’s not so sure but I’ve ordered another bottle anyway) and got our cup of tea delivered at 6am as we were coming in to Adelaide.  Only one more night before we make it home!!!

Had a 3 hour stop in Adelaide and got the bus in to the Adelaide Markets.  Were greeted with pikelets and coffee, had a guided tour of the markets with tastings of cheese, yoghurts, salamis and fruit.  Very enjoyable tour and was great to get out in the fresh air and go for a walk.

Now that we are in Adelaide they don’t turn the train around, they take the engine off our end and take it up to the other end so we were sitting ‘backwards’ going over the Nullarbor and are now sitting looking forward.  It’s a pleasant unexpected change.  The train is about 750 metres long (30 carriages), we will travel 4352 kilometres from Perth to Sydney with an average speed of 85 km/h and a top speed of 110 km/h.  There are 30 crew (who changeover in Adelaide)and about 350 passengers and 15 cars (which can only travel between Perth and Adelaide due to lower heights of tunnels and underpasses between Adelaide and Sydney).

Left Adelaide about 10am and traveled north through very rich wheat country and lots of wind farms around Snowtown (we got out of there before they got the barrels out!!) Turned right and traveling north east through the Mallee scrub to Broken Hill.
Got to Broken Hill about 20 minutes late so we had a quick tour of the Pro hart Gallery and on the train at about sundown and heading for Sydney!!!

We'll see you all soon.  I'll do another entry when we're waiting for the plane maybe to wrap this whole thing up.

The symbol of the Indian Pacific - the wedge tail eagle - at Adelaide train station

Fine dining wife

Fine dining in the Queen Adelaide Restaurant

Farm house north of Adelaide

Wheat storage

Hay

Wind farm near Snowtown

Mallee scrub

The gate keeper

One of four Rolls Royce cars owned by Pro hart, the other three haven't been painted like this one. No photos allowed inside so this is this best you get.

Miners memorial overlooking the mine and the town.

Our train as it leaves Broken Hill at sunset