The History of the GAN Railway

It was the North part of Western Australia. So my brain for a second was like, does he mean like in part of- I was thinking Broome. Do you want to mention what the GAN is? It's the train that runs from Darwin to Adelaide and obviously Adelaide to Darwin. Historically it went from Adelaide to Alice Springs and back. The track was laid on the whole camel track that was before railways. And it was called the GAN after the naming of the camel ears, which they called them Afghans. Even most of them were actually Pakistani. Which Pakistan didn't exist at the time. But because they were from Western India, they were known as Afghans, even though they

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