SAR Peterborough Base Session
Gladstone to Peterborough Depot Fuel Run
Loco coal stages and fuel points need to be refilled regularly. This service delivers coal to the loco coal stages at Jamestown and Peterborough, and bunker c oil (for the SAR 406 Garrett locos) to the loco (main) depot at Peterborough.
| Duration: | 2 hours |
| Loco: | SAR T 258 on Gladstone Goods Loop |
| Consist: | Attached to SAR T 258. 5 TGR CCC wagons, 3 Tank wagons, 1 guards van. Each wagon has its destination as part of its name e.g. Bunker Tank Peterborough 3 indicating it is the 3rd tanker wagon for Peterborough. |
| Tasks: | Run loco light engined to Goods Loop Yard, couple to the train. Deliver wagons according to their destination names. Coal wagons (TGR CCCs) delivered and unloaded at the single coal stage at Jamestown and the two coal stages at Peterborough. Deliver and unload the tank wagons to the Depot Fuel Point in the Peterborough Main Depot. Store the empty wagons on Peterborough Depot Roads 2, 3 or 4. |
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Vintage East-West Express: Terowie to Quorn Passenger
Between 1917 and 1932 the Peterborough-Quorn Line was a vital link in the Transcontinental Railway between Sydney on the east coast and Perth 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 NSW to Perth WA 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 to standard to narrow) and have to navigate through 5 different rail systems (NSWGR, Silverton Tramway, SAR, Commonwealth Railways and WAGR) plus 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.
| Duration: | 3 hours | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Loco: | SAR T 197 at Terowie Station Sidings | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Consist: | Attached to SAR T 197. 3 QR Kuranda BL1 carriages | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Task: | Shunt train into narrow gauge platfrom at Terowie. Then proceed according to the timetable.
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Gladstone to Wilmington Local Freight
A twice weekly (if required) freight service from Gladstone to Wilmington dropping wagons at locations as required.
| Duration: | 3 hours |
| Loco: | SAR T 257 on Gladstone Yard 2 |
| Consist: | Attached to SAR T 257. MTW flat cars, QLX wagons, WHE covered wagons, 1 guards van. Each wagon has its destination as part of its name e.g. QLX Wirrabara 2 indicating it is the 2nd WHE wagon for Wirrabara. |
| Task: | Take the train onto the Wilmington Line. Deliver wagons according to their destination names. WHE covered wagons are delivered to grain silos. MTW flat cars are delivered to the yard cranes. QLX wagons are delivered to the goods sheds. Water at Booleroo Center. Turn the loco on the WYE at Wilmington, coal and water. |
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