The Old Ghan Heritage Railway and Museum is a railway museum in Alice Springs, Northern Territory, with a tourist railway attached. It is operated by the Road Transport Historical Society, which also operates the adjacent National Road Transport Hall of Fame.
The museum contains narrow gauge equipment from the original Central Australian Railway which operated to Alice Springs from 1929 to c1980 until replaced by a flood-free standard gauge line.
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