SHORT VISIT IN COOK

This is how it looks like inside my wagon...

Yes those ancient boxes on the ceiling ARE Televison stations.

Yo... this sign declares the priorities in Cook!

Isn't it a beauty?! Wow, can still not believe, that I travelling by train through Oz.

Cook is a railway station and crossing loop on the standard gauge Trans-Australian Railway from Adelaide to Perth, with no inhabited places around. It has a few houses, and fuel tanks for the locomotives. The crossing loop can cross trains up to 1800m long.

Do I have enough chocolate to survive this?

The town was created in 1917 when the railway was built. It is named after former Prime Minister Joseph Cook. It was effectively closed in 1997 when the railways were privatised and the new owners didn't need a support town there, although the diesel refueling facilities remain, and there is overnight accommodation for train drivers. The bush hospital is closed, and the shop is only opened while the Indian Pacific is in town. Cook is the only scheduled stop on the Nullarbor Plain for the Indian Pacific passenger train across Australia and has little other than curiosity value for the passengers. Today, it is said to have a resident population of four, and is essentially a ghost town.

Endstation Sehnsucht.

A couple of 4WDrives crossing the desert gen Perth. Looks like adventure and imagining to sit in those for hour and hours and hours I do cherish my spacious train.

The jail. Might be still in use - I did not checked. thought it was the loo - honest!

Cook is on the longest stretch of straight railway in the world, at 479 km which stretches from Ooldea to beyond Loongana. So out here a lot of things a irreplaceable. (Sign is in the Souvenir Shop!)

Casey and Scott my "stewards" full of fun and really really kind. They made the trip special!



When the town was active, water was pumped from an underground Artisan aquifer but now, all water is carried in by train. Attempts have been made to introduce trees and other vegetation, but these have not been successful.



And there it goes - another day. And even if it does not feels the way - it is irreplaceable.