Availability of tours depends on a Volunteer Guide being available so please enquire in advance. Workshop tours are available by PRIOR ARRANGEMENT only - please email enquire at the Quorn Railway Station Ticket Office or the Flinders Ranges Visitor Information Centre at Quorn. The Pichi Richi Railway Preservation Society is a volunteer group, which has progressively restored and operated the railway as a working museum.

Standard train journeys available include the Afghan Express (6hrs) from Port Augusta to Quorn and return, and the Pichi Richi Explorer (2.5hrs) from Quorn to Woolshed Flat and return.Ī variety of hire options are also available for your special requirements. Trains operate from Quorn or Port Augusta using steam locomotives or historic diesels and genuine restored timber-body carriages - most over 100 years old.

The railway through Pichi Richi Pass was built in the late 1870s and features deep rock cuttings, superb stone wall embankments and spectacular iron bridges. The Pichi Richi Railway is the last remaining portion of the original narrow gauge Central Australia Railway, the original route of the Ghan. Pichi Richi Railway operates between Quorn and Port Augusta in South Australia's Flinders Ranges region. Passengers from outside South Australia should consider border restrictions when making bookings on Pichi Richi Railway. You must not travel if you are feeling unwell - please advise Flinders Ranges Visitor Information Centre (1800 PR RAIL) or Pichi Richi Railway on 08 8648 6598 if this is the case. You are encouraged to bring your own hand sanitiser. When the train pulled into Quorn yard, it was almost dusk. Pichi Richi Railway reminds its customers that face masks (covering mouth and nose) must be worn on board our train services. are, completed in 1917 and the Pichi Richi Railway also became part of the East - West. Quorn to Woolshed Flat, return two hours. During the COVID-19 pandemic, trains will operate with reduced capacity to enhance social distancing. The Pichi Richi Explorer: steam train using South Australian railways carriages, some dating from the 19th century.

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