{"id":642,"date":"2009-05-24T20:41:33","date_gmt":"2009-05-24T10:41:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bronwynparry.com\/blog\/2009\/05\/the-old-ghan-rail-line\/"},"modified":"2009-05-24T20:41:33","modified_gmt":"2009-05-24T10:41:33","slug":"the-old-ghan-rail-line","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bronwynparry.com\/blog\/2009\/05\/the-old-ghan-rail-line\/","title":{"rendered":"The old Ghan rail line"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We travelled down the Strezlecki Track from Innamincka to Lyndhurst, then went up to Marree and drove up the Oodnadatta Track, staying overnight at William Creek ( population 6, which is three times what it was 20 years ago, when I was last there!)<\/p>\n<p>The Oodnadatta Track follows beside the old Ghan railway line, built across the deserts in the late 19th century, and closed in 1980.<\/p>\n<p> I&#8217;m sending this on the iPhone, so will keep it brief for now &#8211; but here&#8217;s a few phone photos: Cooper Creek, one of the great inland rivers at Innamincka; the old Ghan rail line at Currimurka; and sunset over the desert at William Creek.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/bronwynparry.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/p-1600-1200-15d80132-8de1-41e5-b465-928098aef8f2.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/bronwynparry.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/p-1600-1200-15d80132-8de1-41e5-b465-928098aef8f2.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-364\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/bronwynparry.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/l-1600-1200-a28f193b-f871-4355-b0a7-6962e0725250.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/bronwynparry.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/l-1600-1200-a28f193b-f871-4355-b0a7-6962e0725250.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-364\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/bronwynparry.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/l-1600-1200-f9c88f94-db20-4f09-b05e-4172a5abe0fe.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/bronwynparry.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/l-1600-1200-f9c88f94-db20-4f09-b05e-4172a5abe0fe.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-364\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We travelled down the Strezlecki Track from Innamincka to Lyndhurst, then went up to Marree and drove up the Oodnadatta Track, staying overnight at William Creek ( population 6, which is three times what it was 20 years ago, when &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bronwynparry.com\/blog\/2009\/05\/the-old-ghan-rail-line\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,11,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-642","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-landscape","category-photos","category-travels"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bronwynparry.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/642","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bronwynparry.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bronwynparry.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bronwynparry.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bronwynparry.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=642"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bronwynparry.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/642\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bronwynparry.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bronwynparry.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bronwynparry.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}