# 1996 VHS • Great Train Journeys of Australia: The Indian Pacific 60 FPS

Great Train Journeys of Australia: The Indian Pacific is a documentary following a complete crossing of Australia aboard the Indian Pacific, the passenger train that links Sydney on the Pacific Ocean to Perth on the Indian Ocean, a distance of 2,715 miles completed in approximately 65 hours. The film was produced by Ryans National and is structured as an experiential journey rather than a conventional travel documentary, weaving passenger interviews, crew perspectives, and landscape narration throughout. The program begins at Central Station in Sydney, describing the logistics of servicing and re-crewing the Indian Pacific's approximately 20 cars and 1,000 tons of stainless steel and aluminum. Passenger interviews establish a range of motivations for traveling by train rather than by air: the desire to see the country at ground level, the value of train time as part of the journey rather than transit to it, and the social experience of shared dining in the Queen Adelaide restaurant. Crew members including conductor Glenn, train manager Ralph Hazard, and kitchen staff are interviewed about working life on the train. The documentary notes that the Indian Pacific carries cultural significance for Australians as a physical link between the two coasts. The train climbs through Sydney's suburbs into the Blue Mountains, described geologically and historically. The Great Zigzag, an 1860s engineering feat that allowed early trains to descend into the Lithgow Valley through a…

- Kind: Film
- Year: 1996
- By: The Vista Group®
- Archive: [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/TheVistaGroup-GreatTrainJourneysofAustraliaTheIndianPacific)
- Licence or status: none stated by the archive
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

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