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(rshsdepot) Bangor, South Australia Part 1 (maps, Port Pirie, Port Augusta, Quorn, Mannahill, Petersborough, Parachilna, Terowie, Gladstone and Riverton stations & the Picchi Ricchi Ry.)

Bangor, South Australia, Australia...so big  I split it in three.
I start with area around Bangor, north of Adelaide maybe 100 miles.

Bangor, State of South Australia, Australia
Bangor, South Australia
Slightly NE from Port Pirie, south of Port Augusta.  North of Adelaide

I will go out of order here to show a really really nice station picture.
This is Adelaide, South Australia, the railway is SAR. Like a South Station
for Georgetown or something. I think this looks great:
The front: http://www.geocities.com/sarreci/Station.jpg
A corner station, like South Station or LIRR Flatbush Avenue

Adelaide also has an interurban railway to a beach, using 75 year old
interurban railway cars.

Here is an 1888 South Australia railway map:
http://nla.gov.au/nla.map-nk2456-160
click on interactive map. See the triangular shaped peninsula on bottom left
of this map, go up this Bay, which is Spencer Bay, go almost all the way up
it, clicking on the gray area on the right just before the top. Keep
zooming in, click on the gray circle just to right of where the Bay starts
to narrow, there is an <(11)> in this circle.
You will now be near this long link:
http://www.nla.gov.au/apps/cdview?pi=nla.map-nk2456-160-sd&rgn=0.5604508197%
2C0.5017393897%2C0.7653688525%2C0.6607693072&cmd=zoomin&width=400&x=201&y=14
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Port Pirie is a port on the jutting out land , to get to Bangor, head north
to Telowie Creek, Port Germein, , now go right and there is Bangor. This
looks like it may have been end of this branch. Go up the coast, Baroota,
Winninowie, eventually Port Augusta, from, where the trains come from Perth
(west). Petersburg is now called Petersborough, it is big city to east,
Adelaide is big city on other peninsula in bay next to Spencer, about 60
miles south. and in the insert on this map. Quorn is another bigger stop
north.

I can't find any Bangor station pictures.
Port Pirie station is now a museum:  Go to this page and it is five pictures
down, click on it for big picture, for some reason this link address can't
be copied: http://www.pprdb.com.au/region/index.asp
Front view: Port Pirie, now a museum:
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~pavlich/reunion/museum.jpg
Port Pirie map: http://www.wilmap.com.au/samaps/port_pirie/default.htm


Schematic map, Adelaide to Ceduna:
http://www.wilmap.com.au/stripmaps/MAPS/ADCED.GIF
Here is current MidNorth map:
http://homepages.picknowl.com.au/waller/rail/MIDNORTH.jpg
The Bangor branch doesn't seem on it.

South Australia Railways (S.A.R.) 1951 map:
http://www.members.westnet.com.au/jetsdel_inprotrans/scans/sar.gif

Port Augusta station 1918:
http://www.railpage.org.au/comrails/common/graphics/photos/misc15.jpg
Port Augusta now:
http://members.lycos.nl/jacob_bax/australia/ghan/341058.jpg
Port Augusta: http://www.callufrax.net/travelpics/portaugusta1.jpg
Port Augusta?: http://www.callufrax.net/travelpics/station1.jpg
Budd car being unloaded from the "Belbetty" at Port Augusta Wharf, 1951:
http://www.railpage.org.au/comrails/common/graphics/photos/misca01.jpg
1929 at Port Augusta station:
http://www.railpage.org.au/comrails/common/graphics/photos/cr82.jpg

The Port Augusta and Government Gums Ry (The narrow gauge Ghan Ry.)., 1877
To Alice Springs far north, narrow gauge until mid-1990s..
The Picchi Ricchi Ry. is the tourist line out of  Quorn to Port Augusta:
<The Pichi Richi Railway opened in 1879, and was part of the first stage of
the Great Northern Railway that was intended to link Port Augusta with
Darwin. The Ghan name originated in Quorn in 1923 when the Great Northern
Express was dubbed The Afghan Express by railwaymen. In 1929 this line
reached Alice Springs. The East-West Transcontinental railway across the
Nullarbor Plain was completed in 1917, and the Pichi Richi Railway became
part of the East-West route for the next 20 years. Quorn was a vital railway
junction, especially during World War II when military, coal and other
traffic placed sizeable demands on the railway.  Washaways in the north and
the incapacity of the railway to handle expanding traffic saw a new
standard-gauge railway constructed from Stirling North to Brachina, and the
Pichi Richi Railway was closed to regular traffic in 1957.> Photo gallery
here: http://www.prr.org.au/gallery/albums.php
On the Quorn line 1955 with railcar at Pichi Richi Pass:
http://www.natrailmuseum.org.au/common/nrm_e_pd_aga03546.html
Picchi Ricchi Ry.: http://www.prr.org.au/images/nm25w916quorn.jpg
In 1879, the Great Northern Railway opened the line from Port Augusta to
Quorn.
More stations on this line:
Mannahill Station:
http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~ajh/trains/sa/Mannahill-1.jpg
Parachilna station:
http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~ajh/trains/sa/Parachilna-3.jpg


History of the line between Port Augusta and Kalgoorlie (to the west).art of
the intercontinental railway:
http://john.curtin.edu.au/railway/earlytravel/kalgoorlie.html

Port Augusta was where the maintenance yards were:
http://john.curtin.edu.au/railway/primeminister/photo10.html

Terowie is 221 kilometers north of Adelaide. It had broad and narrow gauge
railways.
Terowie station 1895:
http://www.natrailmuseum.org.au/common/nrm_e_pd_aba05370.html
Terowie Station today: http://www.trainweb.org/mystation/TerStn1.jpg
The "coal tippler": http://www.trainweb.org/mystation/CoalTplr.jpg  (For
transfer of coal between narrow gauge and broad gauge cars) Narrow gauge on
left, broad on right in this view:
http://www.trainweb.org/mystation/Tippler2.jpg
1970 saw the removal of the narrow gauge here:
http://www.natrailmuseum.org.au/common/nrm_e_pd_aba10869.html

12 miles south is Gladstone. There were three gauges here.  An 1877 line to
bring wheat to Port Pirie was/is standard gauge.
Gladstone Terminal:
http://www.trainweb.org/mystation/GladstonePics/GldstStn.jpg
Big station: http://www.trainweb.org/mystation/GladstonePics/GldsStnC.jpg
The Gladstone yards is one of few (only?) yards for three gauges of rails.:
http://www.trainweb.org/mystation/GladstonePics/GLDSN830.jpg  I think all
three are on the track in foreground.
Here are old similar ones:
http://www.trainweb.org/mystation/GladstonePics/Switches.jpg
More recent: http://www.trainweb.org/mystation/GladstonePics/GLDyard.jpg
The broad gauge was the Irish 5'3", the narrow 3'6".

Petersburg on old map is Petersborough, east of Bangor.
Petersborough station, 1942:
http://cas.awm.gov.au/pls/PRD/ump.retrieve_uma?surl=1763538602ZZODQWQBBDNU&p
arm1=UMO_ID&parm2=411165&parm1=DISPLAY_TYPE&parm2=RAW&parm1=DISPLAY_WHAT&par
m2=MASTER&parm1=LOGIN_TYPE&parm2=PROFILEG&parm1=AID&parm2=

Riverton is 60 miles north of Adelaide: The station is now an art gallery:
http://www.trainweb.org/mystation/RivertonPics/Station.jpg
http://www.trainweb.org/mystation/RivertonPics/Platform.jpg
w/ tower: http://www.trainweb.org/mystation/RivertonPics/Riverton2.jpg
Engine House and water tower:
http://www.trainweb.org/mystation/RivertonPics/RedHensA.jpg
You can see this line on the old map, it went by Bangor but I don't think
connected through there.


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