SAR Gladstone-Wilmington

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Gladstone-Wilmington Line Location Index Scenarios

Gladstone

Junction for Broken Hill LineBroad Gauge

FuelWool

Laura
Stone Hut
Wirrabara
Yandiah
Booleroo Centre
Peroomba
Melrose
Terka

Wilmington

Terminus

Symbols:
Coal Loco Coal Stage Fuel Bunker C Oil Fuel Point
Passengers Passenger Stop (Active) Passengers Passenger Stop (not Active)
Turntable Loco Turntable Shed Loco Shed
Water Loco Water Tank Wool Wool Bales
Goods Goods Facility Grain Grain Storage or Processing
Oils_Fuels Oil and Fuel Terminal Stockyard Stockyard
Loop Passing Loop WYE Turning Triangle or WYE

Line History:

Opened:  1884-1915
Closed:  1990
Length:  88km

Built as a narrow gauge (3'6" - 1067mm) line from Gladstone to Laura in 1884, it was extended to Booleroo Centre in 1910 and to Wilmington in 1915. There were proposals to extend the line to Port Augusta or to Quorn.

The line became isolated from the rest of the narrow gauge network when the Port Pirie-Broken Hill Line was converted to standard gauge (4'8.5" - 1435mm) during 1969-1970. All passenger services on the line were then permanently cancelled. The 1982 working timetable had just one return freight service to Wilmington each week.

The line was closed in 1990 and the track has since been removed. The section from Wilmington to Melrose is now a cycling and walking "rail trail".

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