Journey Beyond is the business name of Experience Australia Group Pty Ltd, a private-equity-owned company, known mainly for operating Australian interstate experiential tourism trains and The Overland. As of December 2021, the company was a diversified tourism business based in Adelaide, South Australia, with interests in cruise and air tourism in addition to rail. In January 2022, the United States travel company the Hornblower Group acquired the business from Quadrant Private Equity, which had owned it since 2016.
The Indian Pacific train, between Perth and Sydney, is one of Journey Beyond's brands
The Ghan is an experiential tourism-oriented passenger train service that operates between the northern and southern coasts of Australia, through the cities of Adelaide, Alice Springs and Darwin on the Adelaide–Darwin rail corridor. Operated by Journey Beyond Rail Expeditions, its scheduled travelling time, including extended stops for passengers
to do off-train tours, is 53 hours 15 minutes to travel the 2,979 kilometres (1,851 mi). The Ghan has been described as one of the world's greatest passenger trains.
The Ghan at Alice Springs in July 2015
The Ghan is known for travelling through remarkable scenery on its transcontinental journey
The Ghan passing through Heavitree Gap in Alice Springs in 1957 or 1958
Flash floods regularly washed away bridges and track on the narrow-gauge railway. The Ghan is climbing out of the Finke River depression after track was laid on the river bed as a cheap solution.
