SAR Scenario East-West Express

	2   Vintage East-West Express: Terowie to Port Augusta Passenger
A scenario in the SAR Peterborough Base Session

A limited stop passenger service from Terowie to Quorn.

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 The Historical Bit 

From 1917 to 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. The name "East-West" came from its role in connecting the eastern side of the continent to the western side - in reality the service ran mostly North-South.

At Terowie it connected with broad gauge services from Adelaide and Melbourne. 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 Australia 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 - at Parkes NSW, Broken Hill NSW, Peterborough SA, Port Augusta SA and Kalgoolie WA plus take a taxi between two stations in Broken Hill
• change track gauges 3 times - standard gauge to narrow at Broken Hill, narrow gauge back to standard at Port Augusta and standard gauge to narrow at Kalgoolie
• navigate through 5 different rail systems - NSWGR, Silverton Tramway, SAR, Commonwealth Railways and WAGR

The entire journey from coast to coast would take 6 days, if all the connections were made.

In 1932 a more direct broad gauge line from Adelaide to Port Augusta was completed and the East-West Express then ran as a broad gauge service on that line. This continued until the 1970s when the narrow gauge line from Broken Hill to Port Pirie and the broad gauge line from Adelaide to Port Augusta were converted to standard gauge.

Today passengers can board a luxury train, the Indian Pacific, in Sydney and travel the entire distance to Perth via Adelaide in 3 days without leaving the train or changing gauge.

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Duration:  3 hours  Loco:  SAR T 197 at Terowie Station Sidings Other Unrostered Locos: SAR T 231 at Terowie  Loco  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   Consist:  Attached to SAR T 197. 3 Kuranda BL1 coaches 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).

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:- the  tab gives an overall summary of each location with a "potted" history (where available). the  tab reveals the invisible  Track Marks for Drive To commands. the  tab lists all active industries and their commodities. the  tab describes the names, locations and settings of all junction switches as well as some switch sets you may want to use. Each location details page has direct links to the adjacent 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.

Tutorial: A tutorial on using these scenarios is provided in the link on the left. The link will open in this window

Tasks:  Shunt the train into the narrow gauge platform at Terowie  Station . Proceed according to the timetable. Terowie dep 08:05   Carrieton arr 09:57 (coal) Peterborough dep 08:30     dep 10:07 Orroroo dep 09:14   Hammond dep 10:35 Eurelia arr 09:38 (water)   Bruce dep 10:49   dep 09:42   Quorn arr 11:15 Terowie, Peterborough and Quorn are industry active stations and may have a longer than normal loading time, so patience will be needed. Driving Notes: The approaches to all locations are protected by invisible signals to prevent the AI Half Speed Slowdown Problem when approaching a signal at stop. Trackmarks and industries have been provided for AI Drive To Trackmark, Drive via Trackmark and Drive to  Industry  commands. Click for details. Industry active stations (where you can use the Drive To industry command) are only at Terowie, Peterborough and Quorn. Manual (no AI) driving is possible. As a visual driving aid, a Caution warning sign has been placed at the location of the Main Approach Dn and Main Approach Up trackmarks. Click for details.

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This page was created by Trainz user pware in February 2021 and was last updated as shown below.

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