After being closed for more than three weeks by floods that turned parts of the SA outback into a huge swamp, trains are again rolling down the line connecting the state to its neighbours.
After being closed for more than three weeks following historic rainfall in South Australia's north, the vital railway connecting supply chains between Adelaide, Western Australia and the Northern Territory has reopened.
ARTC corporate affairs general manager Anthony Meere said it had been a mammoth repair effort by road and rail crews."Our crews had to work in some pretty oppressive conditions, both humidity and – in the past week or two – some really hot conditions in the middle of SA.Huge sections of the line near Tarcoola were damaged by floodwaters.
"We've got about 1,000 pallet sizes of parcel posts that have been delayed and would normally come up by rail," NT manager Fiona McKenzie said.
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