SAR Summit

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Port Augusta-Hawker
Woolshed Flat
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 Distance from Port Augusta:  32½ kms, 20 miles  Distance from Quorn:  7½ kms, 4½ miles

Unmanned location on the  Port Augusta-Hawker Line . True to its name, it is the highest point on the line at 406m (1332ft).

A dead end siding was provided possibly to allow for defective rolling stock to be cut from a train before the steep descent to Port Augusta.

The line from Port Augusta to Quorn was closed in 1956 but the section from Quorn to Summit was still used by special passenger excursion trains from Peterborough in the 1960s.

This location became part of the Pichi Richi Railway in 1974. The line from Quorn to Woolshed Flat was restored and reopened in 1979.

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