SAR Port Pirie-Broken Hill

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Revision as of 14:56, 3 December 2020

Port Pirie-Broken Hill Line Location Index
Gladstone - Paratoo Section

Gladstone

Junction for Wilmington LineBroad Gauge

FuelCoalWaterShedTurntableLoopPassengersGoodsGrainLivestockWool

Yangya
Passengers
Caltowie
LoopPassengersGoodsGrain
Jamestown
CoalWaterTurntableLoopPassengersGoodsGrain
Belalie North
LoopPassengersGoods
Yongala
WaterLoopPassengersGoodsGrain
Peterborough Junction for Quorn LineTerowie Line
CoalWaterShedTurntableLoopPassengersGoodsGrainLivestock
Ucolta
WaterLoopPassengersGoodsLivestock
Oodla Wirra
WaterLoopPassengersGoodsLivestock
Nantabibbie
Loop
Peechara
Loop
Nackara
WaterLoopPassengersGoodsLivestock
Methuen
Loop
Paratoo
CoalWaterWYELoopPassengersGoodsLivestock
Symbols:
Coal Loco Coal Stage Fuel Loco Diesel Fuel Point
Water Loco Water Tank Passengers Passenger Stop
Shed Loco Shed Turntable Loco Turntable
Goods Goods Facility Grain Grain Storage or Processing
Stockyard Stockyard Oils_Fuels Oil and Fuel Terminal
Loop Passing Loop WYE Turning Triangle or WYE
Wool Wool Bales  

Line History:

Opened:  1875-1888
Closed:  still in operation
Length:  127km (Gladstone to Paratoo) of 390km total length

Built as a narrow gauge (3'6" - 1067mm) line from Port Pirie to Gladstone in 1875, it was extended to Cockburn on the South Australia - New South Wales border in 1888 where it joined the Silverton Tramway to Broken Hill. The main purpose of the line was to transport the mineral ores from the mines at Broken Hill to the smelters and port at Port Pirie, a function it still performs today.

Several narrow gauge branches were added at Gladstone (to Wilmington), Peterborough (to Quorn and Terowie) and to two mines between Paratoo and Cockburn. A broad gauge (5'3" - 1600mm) line from Adelaide (the state capital) was extended to to Gladstone in 1894.

During 1969-1970 the line was converted to standard gauge (4'8.5" - 1435mm) which eventually led to the closure of all the connecting narrow and broad gauge lines. The line is now part of the standard gauge Transcontinental railway from Sydney to Perth.

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