Great Southern Chase - Parkes to Sydney - 6th December 2025

Welcome to a Rail Town Productions film, in this film we are featuring: with a very tight window of opportunity the first run of the 2025/26 season of Journey Beyond Rail's Great Southern came with quirks. Where it had to clear Albury by a set time and then had to deviate between Cootamundra and Sydney, forcing it via Parkes and the Blue Mountains. In this film we showcase part 1 of 2, of the Great Southern between Cootamundra and Sydney via Parkes. Hope you enjoy the film. Where locomotives NR31 in Great Southern livery and NR88 in Pacific National Stars livery pull the first Great Southern of the season. This section of chase is shown along the route of what the Indian Pacific takes, which runs between Sydney and Perth via Adelaide and return on a weekly basis. Timestamps 00:00 Nash Street, Parkes 02:28 Manildra 04:08 Woodward Street, Orange 06:02 Wimbledon 07:39 Georges Plains (also featuring WT28) 09:10 Orton Park 11:28 Tarana (also featuring WN15) 15:10 Hartley Vale 16:43 Wentworth Falls 18:20 Lidcombe (Sydney) For Part 1; Cootamundra to Parkes. Please check out: https://youtu.be/GpQPwFIhpwQ We have Facebook, Instagram and Redbubble also. Also: I have a website in partnership with Railfan Network: railfan.com.au PS: any support to the social media networks will be appreciated.