SAR Wirrabara
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<td><span style="font-weight: 700; background-color: black; color: white;"> Commodities: </span> | <td><span style="font-weight: 700; background-color: black; color: white;"> Commodities: </span> | ||
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| − | + | <span style="font-weight: 700;"><span style="color: white; background-color: black;"> Distance from Gladstone: </span> 29¾ kms, 18½ miles</span><br> | |
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| + | A manned station on the <span style="font-weight: 700; color: white; background-color: black;"> Gladstone-Wilmington Line </span> until 1983 when all the station staff on the line were withdrawn.<br> | ||
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| + | Station and goods loops, a storage siding and a grain siding.<br> | ||
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| + | The '''Gladstone-Wilmington Line''' is '''unsignalled'''. Train Order working is in operation on the line.<br> | ||
| − | + | Passenger services ended in 1969. The line was closed in 1990 and the track has since been removed.<br> | |
| − | + | Now only the grain silos remain at the site of the former '''Wirrabara''' station and yard. A short section of track has been preserved at the northern ('''Wilmington''') end of the yard which originally had an '''SAR 7550 Brake Van''' on display but vandalism eventually forced this to be moved to the '''Pichi Richi Railway Preservation Society''' at '''Quorn'''.<br> | |
| − | + | The former right-of-way from just south of '''Laura''' to '''Wilmington''' is now an 80km walking, cycling and horse riding trail, the '''[https://www.railtrails.org.au/trails/southern-flinders-rail-trail/ Southern Flinders Rail Trail]'''. | |
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Latest revision as of 14:25, 11 November 2023
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