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We are back in the wheat country again. I didn't realise there was so much of it around Adelaide.

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  1. MarkMarch 4, 2013 at 7:21 PM

    There is nothing like a train journey, I have so many great memories, sadly the XPT up our way is no match for the glory days of the Brisbane Limited Express, the Daylight Express or Gold Coast Motorail.. even the North Coast Mail was great fun!
    There are few great trains left in OZ but this surely is one of them.

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    1. Joan ElizabethMarch 5, 2013 at 6:50 PM

      Hey you have done more trains than me. The only one I would have caught of those is Brisbane-Sydney one back in the 1970s ... don't know what it's name was.

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  2. diane bMarch 6, 2013 at 6:43 PM

    I remember the daylight express. The wheat shot is great. Gives the feeling of a great expanse.

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