Between 1917 and 1932 the Terowie-Peterborough-Quorn Line was a vital part of the Transcontinental Railway between Sydney, NSW on the east coast and Perth, WA on the west coast.
The South Australian Railways provided an express passenger service, the East-West Express, that ran between Terowie and Port Augusta via Quorn. At Terowie it connected with broad gauge services from Adelaide. At Peterborough it connected with narrow gauge services from Broken Hill where there was a standard gauge connection from Sydney. At Quorn it connected with narrow gauge services from the Central Australian Line. At Port Augusta it connected with standard gauge services to Kalgoolie, where there was a narrow gauge connection to Perth.
Passengers making the entire trip from Sydney to Perth would change trains 5 times - Parkes NSW, Broken Hill NSW, Peterborough SA, Port Augusta SA and Kalgoolie WA. They would change track gauges 3 times - standard to narrow at Broken Hill, narrow to standard at Port Augusta and standard to narrow at Kalgoolie. They would have to navigate through 5 different rail systems - NSWGR, Silverton Tramway, SAR, Commonwealth Railways and WAGR. Plus take a taxi between two stations in Broken Hill. The entire journey from coast to coast would take 6 days, if all the connections were made.
Today passengers can board a luxury train, the Indian Pacific, in Sydney and travel the entire distance to Perth in 3 days without leaving the train. |
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3 hours |
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SAR T 197 at Terowie Station Sidings
Other Unrostered Locos:
- SAR T 231 at Terowie Depot
- SAR T 23 on Peterborough Depot Siding 1
- SAR T 233 on Peterborough Depot Loco Road 1
- SAR 407 on Peterborough Depot Repair Shop Road 4
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| Consist: |
Attached to SAR T 197. 3 Kuranda BL1 coaches |
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Each location in the layout has a detailed set of track diagrams that provide a variety of information. The Getting Started guide below gives a summary of the information that is available.
To display the data click any Line Index graphic, or go to the bottom of the page for all the session links (all links will open in this window). |
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Getting Started:
- The first step is to pause the session by pressing the P key.
- Next locate your loco. Either:-
- Open the Finder Tool (press CTRL-F) and type, in the name field, the name of the loco. For example SAR T 197 (or just T 197 should be enough). Click the tick icon, OR
- Open the Driver List (bottom left of the screen) and select the loco from there - click the drivers Eye icon to jump to the loco.
- Take a few moments to get your bearings. Use the (this link will open in this window) and click on Terowie to load its location details and track plans. In each location details page:-
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 tab will reveal the optional Enhanced Interlocking Tower paths into and out of each location (where available).
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 tab will reveal the invisible  Track Marks for Drive To commands.
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 tab will show all active industries and their commodities.
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 tab will give you the names, locations and settings of all junction switches as well as some switch sets you may want to use.
- Each location page has direct links to the next locations so you can explore along the route.
- When you are ready to start, reload the Peterborough Base Session page (click the Scenarios button on your current location page) and select this Scenario again or just use the Back button on your browser - whichever is quicker.
- Switch back to TRS19 Driver and press the P key to start the session.
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Tutorial:
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A tutorial on using these scenarios is provided in the link on the left. The link will open in this window |
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This page was created by Trainz user pware in February 2021 and was last updated as shown below.
