Featured T&L Excursions

This 75 minute tour for school groups can be conducted to conform to the Stage 1 unit relating to Transport, the HSIE stage 3 unit, "Sydney Airport" or as a general familiarization with the way the airport works.

Conducted as a bus tour airside at Sydney Airport, children are taken onto the tarmac for a close up look at the internal workings of Australia's busiest airport. Click here for more >>

      "Echo Bravo Quebec . . ."

The ex-Qantas 747 VH-EBQ is now permanently located at the Founders Outback Museum, Longreach and is 'open' for tours. With some roof, wall and floor panels removed the tour gives an infomative insight into the secrets of this magnificent aircraft.

Do the 747 Wing Walking Tour - Venture out o­nto the wing of the 747, climb down in the computer bay and into the cargo bays, and sit in the pilot seat!   It is somethinng you will never forget.  Click here for more >>

  Shipwreck Sleuths Workshop

Recommended for Science, Stage 5 studies.   Students use scientific principles to identify the origins of artefacts from shipwrecks. Activities include using a microscope to analyse materials such as timber, ballast and fibre, then recording discoveries and forming an hypothesis. A guided tour includes shipwreck material on display in the national Maritime museum and a visit to the restored tall ship James Craig.  Click here for more>>

    Vintage Bus Rides in Sydney's famous Double Decker

View an amazing range of passenger transport and trucks.  Click here for more>>

    Commissioner's Tour

In days of old, the Railway Commissioner would undertake tours of his domain – often using special trains and carriages. You can be the Commissioner for a day! Experience the excitement of a steam loco coming to life … work with the locomotive crew out on the line … enjoy a light lunch in the observation car on the Commissioners tour of the line and go behind the scenes at the Thirlmere Railway Museum.   Click here for more>>

  National Road Transport Hall of Fame

Vehicles are props to the trials and tribulations of road transport pioneers covering all forms of road transport, from the camel strings of old to today’s modern roadtrains and stretchliner coaches. With vehicles displayed in their working day condition maintained by ‘bush mechanics and engineers’ in those days, the National Road Transport Hall of Fame, Alice Springs aims to truly represent Australia’s road transport.  Click here for more>>

    "Mantle of Safety" The Royal Flying Doctor Service of Australia

People living in the bush are not the only patients!  Tourists, people visiting outback who have an accident or become unwell, industry workers including interstate truck drivers, miners and surveyors also use RFDS. 

Visit your nearest base at: Derby, Port Hedland, Meekatharra, Jandakot, Kalgoorlie, Adelaide, Port Augusta, Broken Hill, Dubbo, Bankstown, Essendon, Brisbane, Rockhampton, Charlieville, Mascot, Mount Isa, Cairns, Bundaberg, Launceston or Alice Springs.   Click here for more>>