ARABANA and the GHAN

by Michael Duke

The Old Ghan was a magnificent feat of engineering, taking steam trains through an arid landscape from Adelaide to the centre of Australia. It was built and ran from 1884 to 1983. On Arabana land from Marree to Oodnadatta, that Aboriginal people helped survey then work upon the railway line. They were fettlers, gangers, locomotive engineers, yardmaster, train inspectors, train cleaners, shunters. They got equal pay from the 1920s, unlike most other...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1925826287
• ISBN13: 9781925826289
• Release Date: January 2019
• Publisher: Connor Court Publishing Pty Ltd
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.64 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.8" x 8.3"