AS the Indian Pacific now has an extra train service running through Broken Hill on a Tuesday morning, the influx of tourists are being treated to a special show at the Sulphide Street Railway & Historical Museum.
With the first stop on Tuesday, January 7, at 7.10am, it allowed passengers to disembark and have four hours to relax and enjoy various attractions in the region.
One of those was the premiere of a new show at the museum, followed by an hour to explore the venues various displays and sheds.
The new, extra service is the second Indian Pacific train to come through Broken Hill weekly, with the other scheduled to arrive 6am on Thursdays, and treated to a play Trades Hall.
As part of the new stop, Tuesdays at 11am will see the team at the museum put on the historical play for visitors about the 1915 Picnic Train Attack, life in the early 1900s, and the early days of mining, local newspapers, and the role women played in the era.
Tour guide at Silver City Tours, Wayne Pavlich, said the added Indian Pacific stopover is fantastic.
“In the past, the trains come through on a Tuesday afternoon and haven’t stopped,” he said.
“Today, we’ve been here four hours, it’s magnificent for the people.
“We went out to Living Sculptures first, then the Miners Memorial, and then the play.
“Now they’ve got time to explore here before we put them back on the train.”
First-time visitors to Broken Hill and passengers on the Indian Pacific, Coral and Eddie Hartley, from Bunbury WA, said the show was very informative.
“We were the guinea pigs for the first show, and it was very well done,” Mr Hartley said.
“They’ve done a really good job.
“Everybody said Broken Hill is just a place out in the desert; well it’s not, there’s a lot more to it.”
