Mobility Guidelines
While Slow Rail Journeys is experienced in working with guests to overcome mobility challenges, heritage train travel and our off-train experience program unfortunately isn't for everyone.
"What a wonderful way to travel through the country. An excellent crew onboard. Well organized and definitely a fun trip"
Our tours require a certain level of fitness and mobility, and involve boarding and disembarking buses, walking approximately 200m at times, and navigating stairs.
While we have a number of guests who have mobility challenges who are able to fully enjoy the experience, you will, at a minimum, need to be able to walk unassisted through the train carriages (see above for images), step on and off buses and board and alight the train using a set of stairs not dissimilar to those used on regional flights when disembarking in locations without platforms.
Sleeping Car Tours
If booking a Premium Twin, Standard Twin or Twin Share Heritage cabin, one member of your party will need to be able to climb a ladder up to and down from the top bunk.
Our adjacent Premium Single Cabins are designed specifically for those who are unable to access the upper bunks onboard or are concerned about doing so.
Vinelander Tours
While we do our best to assist, our Vinelander tours to Mildura and the off-train experience programs will require you to be able to board and disembark buses, to navigate stairs and a certain level of activity (i,e, bus tours may make three stops where you will disembark etc.
In particular, Mungo National Park has uneven ground, and our Mildura programming requires the use of buses to get to dinners, participate in tours etc.
Some platforms (Donald, etc) have not been used for passenger trains for some time and have large gaps between the train and the platform.











