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Alice Springs Railway Station Information

The railway station at Alice Springs was built in 1988 based on a 1930 design for a station that was never built. The train did not actually reach Alice Springs until 1929 when the rail link from Oodnadatta was completed. Before then it took 3 weeks to make the journey via wagon or camel.

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The Ghan is named after the Afghani camel traders who used to transport goods into the centre before the railway. There is a sculpture of a camel in the foyer of the station commemorating those camel trains. The old railway station in Railway terrace has some interesting historical buildings around including 3 old railway cottages built for employees in 1929. The new station is in George Crescent.

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