SOUTH AUSTRALIA'S MIXED GAUGE MUDDLE
SECTION - A MULTI GAUGE STATIONS in SA COUNTRY AREAS
Country locationsEra Drawing
Bowmans 1923 ‐ 1927 1001 Brachina 1956 ‐ 1957 1002 Gladstone (1) 1970 ‐ 1985 1003 Gladstone (2) 1927 ‐ 1970 1004 Hamley Bridge 1880 ‐ 1927 1005 Marree 1957 ‐ 1980 1006 Mount Gambier 1917 ‐ 1954 1007 Naracoorte 1951 ‐ 1957 1008 Peterborough 1970 ‐ 1989 1009/10 Pinnaroo AWB 2009 ‐ 2011 1011 Port Pirie environment (1) 1937 ‐ 1970 1012/13 Port Pirie environment (2) 1970 ‐ 1982 1014‐16 Snowtown (1) 1923 ‐ 1927 1017 Tailem Bend 1996 ‐ 1998 1018 Terowie 1881 ‐ 1970 1019/20 Whyalla Steelworks 2013 > 1021
Triple Gauge (2 configurations) - Gladstone For other Country locations refer to Section B - Multi Gauge Lines in Country SA
Drawn: G F Vincent for National Railway Museum Port Adelaide to Alice Springs (NT) MARREE
Historic Notes
Bowmans started its relatively short period as a dual gauge station when two lines of different gauges crossed geographically. The Balaklava to Kadina line of the Western System was pre-existing as a narrow gauge line, when the broad gauge line to Tarcoola from Long Plains started to snake forward towards Port Pirie. The interaction of the two lines did not create a 'transfer' point for passengers or commodities, and the status ended four years later when the whole of the Western System was converted to broad gauge. Given that this system change was predicted, all of the dual gauge lines at Bowmans were laid as 4 rail configuration with both narrow gauge rails BROKEN HILL between the broad gauge to facilitate the eventual change to broad gauge only. to Parkes (NSW) PT AUGUSTA
PETERBOROUGH PT PIRIE GLADSTONE NEW SOUTH WALES
SNOWTOWN BURRA KADINA BOWMANS
LOXTON
ADELAIDE to Ouyen (Vic.) TAILEM BEND PINNAROO
Broad gauge to SNOWTOWN VICTORIA
Narrow gauge to PORT WAKEFIELD WOLSELEY & KADINA to Melbourne
Narrow gauge to RAILWAYS OF BALAKALAVA EASTERN NARACOORTE SOUTH AUSTRALIA Broad gauge to HAMLEY BRIDGE & ADELAIDE
MT GAMBIER to Heywood (Vic)
BOWMANS ADELAIDE via TWO WELLS
YY KADINA
BALAKLAVA DOWN MAIN Y
Y UP MAIN Y
BOWMANS RD
SNOWTOWN
-- Fixed point divergence of two gauges Y Drawn: G F Vincent for BOWMANS National Railway Museum 1923 - 1927 Port Adelaide Dual Gauge Era (b.g./ n.g.) 1001 to Alice Springs (NT) MARREE
Historic Notes
By the criteria set - 2 or more years and not simply during construction - Brachina doesn't really qualify. However it is a special case worth reporting. to Tarcoola From the 1880s, Brachina was a small siding on the Quorn - Oodnadatta (and ultmately Alice Springs) narrow gauge line. But in 1955 the new standard gauge line BRACHINA from Stirling North traversing the plains to the west of the Flinders Ranges arrived, avoiding the difficult Pichi Richi Pass and Quorn, and temporarily Brachina became a trans-shipping point. This in itself was hardly special, but full narrow gauge coal and BROKEN HILL stock trains were not unloaded, but simply run up onto standard gauge flat cars fitted with narrow gauge track and carried 'piggy-back' to the south. This rather novel process to Parkes (NSW) continued until the standard gauge reached its next staging point to the north in late 1956. PT AUGUSTA
PETERBOROUGH PT PIRIE GLADSTONE NEW SOUTH WALES
SNOWTOWN BURRA KADINA
LOXTON
ADELAIDE to Ouyen (Vic.) TAILEM BEND PINNAROO
Standard gauge to Narrow gauge to MARREE MARREE & VICTORIA Under Construction ALICE SPRINGS
to Melbourne Standard gauge to STIRLING NORTH & PT PIRIE RAILWAYS OF EASTERN Closed NARACOORTE Narrow gauge to SOUTH AUSTRALIA QUORN & PT AUGUSTA
MT GAMBIER to Heywood (Vic)
BRACHINA CRUSHER
s.g. MAIN
STIRLING NORTH via NEUROODLA s.g. LOOP MAREE
n.g. TRANSFER SIDING Cattle Transfer Ramps Under Construction n.g. 'Piggyback' Loading Ramps n.g. LOOP
n.g. MAIN
STIRLING NORTH via QUORN ALICE SPRINGS via MAREE
* Whilst Brachina does not meet the "2 year" criteria Drawn: G F Vincent for inclusion in this series, it's unique facilitiy for for piggyback loading is worthy of note. BRACHINA National Railway Museum 1956 - 1957* Port Adelaide Dual Gauge Era (s.g./ n.g.) 1002 INTRICATE TRACKWORK For illustration purposes some photographs are from other TRIPLE GAUGE TURNOUTS & TRANSITIONS illustrations.
fixed point fp
Turnout: (3 gauge) - Main and Branch. 4 moving blades Turnout: (3 gauge) to (b.g+n.g) Branch. 2moving blades Divergence:(3 gauge) to (b.g+n.g) Main & s.g. Branch. No blades
fixed points
WOULD YOU BELIEVE? fixed In the three gauge Gladstone Yard point (1970>1985) there were no less than 11 different gauge/gauge combinations? fp
Turnout: (3 gauge) Main to (s.g+n.g) Branch. 2 moving blades Transition:(3 gauge - centreline) for end wagon sheep transfer and transition to (3 gauge common rail) for platform alignment (not visible)
fixed points
fp fp
Turnout: (3 gauge) Main to n.g Branch. 1 moving blade Turnout: (3 gauge) to b.g Branch 1moving blade Transition:(3 gauge - common rail) to (3 gauge 'gauntlet')
Basic (Common rail) Permits turnouts Centreline loading Turntable access Note: In this configuration the TRIPLE GAUGE TRACK standard gaue rails need to be Drawn: G F Vincent CONFIGURATIONS narrowed to permit broad gauge for flanges to fit. Narrow gauge: 1067mm National Railway Museum ng ng ng ng Standard gauge: 1435mm sg sg sg sg Port Adelaide Broad gauge: 1600mm bg bg bg bg to Alice Springs (NT) MARREE Historic Notes The first railway reached Gladstone in 1876 as a 1067mm gauge line coming inland from Pt Pirie. This line then extended on through Peterborough (then Petersburg) reaching Broken Hill in 1888. As a seperate development the narrow gauge "Western System" was extended north from Balaklava eventually connecting at Gladstone in 1894. The Wilmington branch started with a line to Laura in 1884 and was completed in 1915. Gladstone thus prospered to Tarcoola as a single gauge junction until 1927. In this year the "Western System" was converted to broad (1600mm) gauge, eliminating the break of gauge station at Hamley Bridge, but creating a new one at Gladstone. This commenced a period of 43 years as a two gauge junction, transhipping grain, livestock, passengers and general goods. Passenger services BROKEN HILL operated on all radiating lines. In 1970 the Broken Hill - Coonamia line was converted to standard (1435mm) gauge as part of the upgrading of the Sydney - Perth route to a single to Parkes (NSW) gauge, creating the third era for Gladstone as a triple gauge station - reputedly one of only PT AUGUSTA two in the world along with Peterborough. Whilst Gladstone was much smaller than its neighbour, it was vastly more complex since with limited space it was built with all the yards superimposed on one another. This provided an amazing array of multigauge trackwork with PETERBOROUGH no less than 11 different gauge combinations in the one station complex. Built initially to PT PIRIE transfer all products including livestock it gradually reverted to grain only. Passenger service GLADSTONE was only provided on the broad gauge to Adelaide. By1993 the Wilmington branch had been NEW SOUTH WALES closed and the broad gauge link to the south was also removed. The station now remains as SNOWTOWN BURRA a passing loop on the main east-west line but with a regional grain loading centre. KADINA
LOXTON
ADELAIDE to Ouyen (Vic.) TAILEM BEND PINNAROO Narrow gauge to Narrow gauge to WILMINGTON WILMINGTON
VICTORIA
Standard gauge to Standard gauge to Narrow gauge to PT AUGUSTA PETERBOROUGH & PETERBOROUGH & WOLSELEY & PERTH SYDNEY BROKEN HILL to Melbourne
RAILWAYS OF EASTERN Narrow gauge to NARACOORTE PT PIRIE SOUTH AUSTRALIA
Broad gauge to Broad gauge to ADELAIDE ADELAIDE MT GAMBIER to Heywood (Vic)
1970 -- 1993 1927 -- 1970 GLADSTONE RAMP
PORT PIRIE Y
WILMINGTON
= = = Pedestrian = Underpass = 1 GOODS SHED
MAIN NORTH RD 31 32 WEIGHBRIDGE 18 20 21 25 28 29 = EAST ST 30 33 36 STOCK RAMPS 10 37 40 34 GOODS TRANSFER PLATFORM 52 23 24 35 39 = 42 43 57 11 19 53 51 4 7 17 45 47 ENGINE SHED 14 41 15 8 12 48 49 50 53 G 23 9 46 * 5 22 Ash Pit 3 16 44 Coal Gantry G 27 * 26 Passenger (Low Level) Platform 38 54 G 56 * G =CALTEX FUEL DEPOT* G PORT ST Pedestrian Underpass BONDOWIE ST
ADELAIDE PETERBOROUGH GLADSTONE 1927 - 1970 Drawn: G F Vincent for Dual Gauge Era (b.g./ n.g.) National Railway Museum, Port Adelaide Y -- Fixed point divergence of two gauges 1003 The track transition diagrams are not to scale = WILMINGTON PORT PIRIE and are presented to illustrate the extensive A track complications of this location. A *
196 138
STOCK RAMP & PLATFORM = B 2 B * = =
M
C 3 C * 3D
BALLAST = HOPPER STOCK RAMPS = & PLATFORMS
K
D K D *
* = = * J J = Pedestrian
= = Underpass H H 4 * E 4D = E * 61 GOODS SHED SILOS = F =
M MAIN NORTH RD WEIGHBRIDGE = = Y = EAST ST Y RAMP GOODS TRANSFER PLATFORM = 58 TRANSFER= F PLATFORM 6 * M M 54 M 60 55 8 M 51D 51 10 57 12D 56D ENGINE SHED M M 12 13 16 50 G Ash Pit 14 M 7 M 9 M 16D M 18 53 * 56 14D Passenger (Low Level) Platform = *G
G PORT ST Pedestrian CALTEX Underpass BONDOWIE ST FUEL DEPOT
ADELAIDE PETERBOROUGH 135 GLADSTONE 1970 - 1985 193 Drawn: G F Vincent for Triple Gauge Era National Railway Museum, Port Adelaide -- Fixed point divergence of two gauges 1004 Y to Alice Springs (NT) MARREE
Historic Notes
There were only two other steam powered main line railways in the state of South Australia when the broad gauge (1600mm) Adelaide-Burra line first reached Hamley Bridge. Construction of the line was dominated by the need to span the to Tarcoola River Light just south of the town. The iron work for this major crossing was manufactured in England and shipped in time for erection and opening of the line in July 1869. In the same year a narrow gauge (1067mm) "tramway" was built for horsedrawn traffic between Port Wakefield and Hoyleton with no expectation of connection to other lines. However by 1877 this "Western System" had been BROKEN HILL extended to Kadina with plans to also extend northwards to Gladstone. Connection between the systems was made with a line from Hamley Bridge to Balaklava to Parkes (NSW) and the two gauge junction was formed in 1879, making it the first dual gauge PT AUGUSTA main line station in Australia. The Hamley Bridge junction served as a change-of-gauge station for 58 years until the Western System was converted to Broad Gauge in 1927. PETERBOROUGH PT PIRIE Since 1980 the mid north railway network has gradually been abandoned as farm traffic GLADSTONE became uneconomic for rail transport. Hamley Bridge broad gauge track remains in place, NEW SOUTH WALES but with no operaing trains, looks derelict and desolate. SNOWTOWN BURRA KADINA
HAMLEY BRIDGE LOXTON
ADELAIDE to Ouyen (Vic.) TAILEM BEND PINNAROO
Broad gauge to BURRA VICTORIA
Narrow gauge to BALAKLAVA, KADINA & GLADSTONE WOLSELEY to Melbourne
RAILWAYS OF EASTERN NARACOORTE SOUTH AUSTRALIA Broad gauge to ADELAIDE
MT GAMBIER to Heywood (Vic)
HAMLEY BRIDGE The semaphore style ground signals were Signal 33/33(R) was originally positioned as essentially just Point Position Indicators. shown, but later moved to position "A". Full height signal 36(I) was similarly only a PPI. Signal arm 33(R) was a repeating arm mounted well above normal signal height to provide visability above the platform canopy. PORT WAKEFIELD ADELAIDE
RIVER LIGHT * * GILBERT RIVER 35
5 Sig.Box
*
* 9 33 33(R) 29 31 30 32
= = = 24 8 Y 22 ENGINE SHED Ash Pit PASSENGER PLATFORM 7 36(I) 34 6
4 21 25
Y 3 14 = = PASSENGER PLATFORM 1= 36 28 2 A 10 Y
21 18
STOCK
= = RAMPS 16 = TRANSFER SHED Y SOUTH ST STOCKPORT RD GOODS TRANSFER PLATFORM GOODS SHED MILL 1
BURRA
-- Fixed point divergence of two gauges
Y Drawn: G F Vincent for HAMLEY BRIDGE National Railway Museum 1879 - 1927 Port Adelaide Dual Gauge Era (b.g./ n.g.) 1005 to Alice Springs (NT) MARREE
Historic Notes
The narrow gauge line to Oodnadatta and Alice Springs reached Marree (then known as Hergott Springs) in 1884 and the station became a major loading point for stock. Until 1957 it remained as an outback point on the line and shared in the rich history to Tarcoola and folklore of this pioneering line. In 1957 a new standard gauge line was built to Leigh Creek coalfield to provide a more ecconomic operating environment for the increased coal loading required by the second Port Augusta Power Station and the line was extended to Marree to avoid trans-shipping of the stock loading. Thus it became the southern terminal of the BROKEN HILL narrow gauge Alice Springs line and a true 'change-of-gauge' station with Ghan passengers, and all freight loading, having to change trains. to Parkes (NSW) The track layout featured a huge balloon loop known as the 'teardrop' rising from the PT AUGUSTA unusual shape. It aslo featured a unique section of track work where the loop demanded that the third rail change sides of the track. PETERBOROUGH Marree's status as a dual gauge station came to an abrupt end with the commissioning of PT PIRIE the all weather Tarcoola - Alice Springs line in 1980, and the consequent abandoning GLADSTONE of the narrow gauge north of Marree NEW SOUTH WALES SNOWTOWN BURRA KADINA
LOXTON
ADELAIDE to Ouyen (Vic.) TAILEM BEND PINNAROO
Narrow gauge to VICTORIA ALICE SPRINGS
to Melbourne
RAILWAYS OF Standard gauge to STIRLING NORTH EASTERN NARACOORTE & PT PIRIE SOUTH AUSTRALIA
MT GAMBIER to Heywood (Vic)
MARREE TEARDROP
LOOP SHEEP LOADING ? RAMP PORT PIRIE
PIGGYBACK LOADING STOCK LOADING RAMP RAMP
=
M OR TF LA P ER SF AN TR S OD GO FUEL TRANSFER
FACILITY ?
= GOODS SHED and PLATFORM * CATTLE VAN = WASHOUT PLATFORM * MIC SHED STOCK LOADING RAMP & PLATFORM = =
Initially - LOCO DEPOT Converted to car servicing = for narrow gauge stock, when Marree became the = southern terminal of n.g. STATION BUILDING RAMP ALICE SPRINGS Y RAMP
RAMP Y -- Fixed point divergence of two gauges
Drawn: G F Vincent for MARREE National Railway Museum 1957 - 1980 Port Adelaide Dual Gauge Era (s.g./ n.g.) 1006 to Alice Springs (NT) MARREE
Historic Notes
Narrow gauge arrived in Mount Gambier in 1879 as an independent line from the port of Beachport, and then connected to Adelaide via gauge change at Wolseley in 1887. Broad gauge crossed the border from Heywood in 1917 as an extension of the to Tarcoola Victorian Railways and created a dual gauge station. It was never really a 'change-of- gauge' station, but rather a terminal of two lines, since there was little reason for 'through' traffic - either passenger of freight. And this situation prevailed until 1956 when the broad gauge replaced the narrow on the South Australian southeast network. At that time Mt Gambier became a one gauge station and was considerably BROKEN HILL reconfigured with a new locomotive depot and marshalling yard to the north of the original station yard which served the rail needs until 1995. At that time the to Parkes (NSW) standardisation of the Adelaide - Melbourne route left the southeast as an isolated PT AUGUSTA network which has been left to decay with no commercial traffic since that time. PETERBOROUGH PT PIRIE GLADSTONE NEW SOUTH WALES
SNOWTOWN BURRA KADINA
LOXTON
ADELAIDE to Ouyen (Vic.) TAILEM BEND PINNAROO
Narrow gauge to VICTORIA WOLESLEY
WOLESLEY to Melbourne
KINGSTON Broad gauge (VR) to RAILWAYS OF HEYWOOD (Vic) EASTERN NARACOORTE SOUTH AUSTRALIA BEACHPORT
to Heywood (Vic) MOUNT GAMBIER
MOUNT GAMBIER Points controlled from the Signal Box are shown numbered in pink34 - Facing point locks are shown -
HEYWOOD (Victoria)
1
* = CARRIAGE SHED Coal Stage * = 30 * 18 5 Sig.Box PASSENGER PLATFORM 1817 = 27 18 PLATFORM ROAD CARRIAGE 19 SIDINGS 19 = C SIDING 14 12 28 26 ENGINE SHEDS 20 14 20 B SIDING 14 12 Y 13 12 21 11 11 21 A SIDING 10 22 23 = 23 2 Y NG GOODS SIDING 3 4 WOLSELEY 23 BG GOODS SIDING GOODS SHED
Y
BAY RD WEHL ST
=
-- Fixed point divergence of two gauges Y * This drawing depicts the era Narrow Gauge from Wolseley. Drawn: G F Vincent meeting the Broad Gauge from Heywood (Victoria). From the early 1950s preparations started for the arrival for MOUNT GAMBIER of the Broad Gauge from Wolseley and there were considerable National Railway Museum changes in the transition to a Broad Gauge only yard over a 1917 - 1952* Port Adelaide protracted period of nearly a decade. Dual Gauge Era (b.g./ n.g.) 1007 to Alice Springs (NT) MARREE
Historic Notes
Naracoorte hosted rails as early as 1876 as a wayside stop on the narrow gauge Kingston - Wolesley - Bordertown/Serviceton line. It then became a junction as the line south to Mount Gambier was added to the South East system in 1887. This status quo to Tarcoola remained until post World War II when a project was commenced to convert the whole south East system to broad gauge and eliminate the change of gauge at Wolesley. The conversion extended over almost 10 years and during this time Naracoorte spent an extended (construction) period as a dual gauge station. Because of the slow rate of change, the whole line from Wolesley to Mount Gambier spent periods as an operating dual BROKEN HILL gauge (bg/ng) line and trains of both gauges were programmed depending on their intended destination. The broad gauge arrived in Naracoorte and it remained as a dual to Parkes (NSW) gauge station until the final commissioing of the broad gauge on the branch line to PT AUGUSTA Kingston in 1959. Indeed it probably had movements of both gauges for sometime after that date as the then superflous third rail was removed from the three lines. PETERBOROUGH Thereafter Naracorte served as a broad gauge station until 1995 when the conversion PT PIRIE of the main line between Adelaide and Melbourne to standard gauge and the consequent GLADSTONE isolation of the broad gauge South East system which has been abandoned and decayed. NEW SOUTH WALES SNOWTOWN BURRA KADINA
LOXTON
ADELAIDE to Ouyen (Vic.) TAILEM BEND PINNAROO
Dual Broad/Narrow gauge (temporarily) to WOLESLEY VICTORIA
WOLESLEY Narrow gauge to KINGSTON to Melbourne
Dual Broad/Narrow KINGSTON gauge RAILWAYS OF (under construction) EASTERN NARACOORTE Narrow gauge to (ultimately Broad) MOUNT GAMBIER to MOUNT GAMBIER SOUTH AUSTRALIA
MT GAMBIER to Heywood (Vic)
NARACOORTE This Narrow Gauge Loco servicing area was decommissioned early in the 50s decade but was not removed until much later. MOUNT GAMBIER This line was the next section ENGINE SHED to be converted (initially) to Coal Stage Mixed Gauge Ash Pit *
New station building BG SIDING No.2 LUCINDALE RD NG SIDING BG SIDING No.1
NG MAIN LINE Y NG MAIN LINE Shelters
BG MAIN LINE (future)
= =
BG MAIN LINE =
PASSING SIDING
= = =
MG SIDING No.1
= =
= STEWART TCE
= = Y = MG SIDING No.2
= =
* = MG SIDING No.3
= = = MG SIDING No.4 NARACOORTE Coal CREEK Gantry MG SIDING No.5 MACDONNELL ST
Livestock loading ramps
YL * KINGSTON S.E.
WOLSELEY
Drawn: G F Vincent * Naracoorte Dual Gauge era existed only during the conversion -- Fixed point divergence of two gauges of the Wolseley - Mt Gambier line from ng > bg. However this was NARACOORTE for a drawn out period lasting for most of the 1950s. Y National Railway Museum Since it was a time of great change any drawing can only be a 1951 - 1959* Port Adelaide snapshot of a particular time. This version depicts the era circa 1953. Dual Gauge Era (b.g./ n.g.) 1008 INTRICATE TRACKWORK DUAL GAUGE TURNOUTS & TRANSITIONS
Turnout: (b.g+s.g) - Main and Branch. 3 moving blades Transition:(b .g+s.g) Conventional transitions (both tracks) Divergence:(s .g+n.g) to n.g.Main & s.g. Branch. 1 moving blade
fixed fixed point point
Turnout: (b.g+ s.g) Main to b.g Branch. 1 moving blade Transition:(b.g.+s.g.) Switched transition. 2 contra moving blades Divergence:(b .g+s.g) to s.g.Main & b.g. Branch. no moving blade
fixed point
Turnout: (b.g+ s.g) Main to b.g Main. 2 moving blades Transition:(b .g+n.g) "3 rail" >>> "Centre line aligned" Turnout: (b.g+ s.g) Main to b.g Branch. 2 moving blades [Integrated 3rd rail transition]
Drawn: G F Vincent for National Railway Museum Port Adelaide to Alice Springs (NT) MARREE Historic Notes Peterborough (then known as Petersburg) established its connection with the railways in 1880 when a narrow (1067mm) gauge line pushed inland from Port Pirie to tap the farm lands produce. Later in the same year a line from Adelaide arrived (via a break of gauge at Terowie), and within a further year a line had extended north to Quorn connecting with the established line across to Port Augusta. By 1888 a line was built to Broken Hill to to transport the to Tarcoola valuable ore products of the area. Sitting thus at a four way junction it was a natural place to become the nothern headquarters and was to remain so for over a century. The first major change occurred in 1970 when the Broken Hill- Coonamia line was converted to standard (1435mm) gauge as part of the upgrading of the Sydney-Perth line BROKEN HILL to standard gauge. As a component of this project the broad gauge Adelaide- Terowie line was extended to Peterborough creating a three gauge station. Unlike its neighbour at Gladstone to Parkes (NSW) there was sufficient space available to build seperate marshalling and transfer yards with little PT AUGUSTA dual, and almost no triple gauge track. The yards were built for the transfer of livestock and general goods, and a broad/standard gauge bogie exchange plant was provided. The only passenger service was Adelaide - Broken Hill. The third era for this station began in 1993 PETERBOROUGH when standard gauge was established between Crystal Brook and Adelaide making the PT PIRIE Peterborough-Adelaide connection redundant. By 1988 the broad gauge was removed GLADSTONE and the narrow gauge carrying very little traffic was abandoned. NEW SOUTH WALES For some years the narrow gauge operated as a tourist railway but eventually that closed SNOWTOWN BURRA and the station reverted to a crossing loop on the main east-west route. KADINA
LOXTON
ADELAIDE to Ouyen (Vic.) TAILEM BEND PINNAROO Narrow gauge to QUORN
VICTORIA
Standard gauge to Standard gauge to PT AUGUSTA PETERBOROUGH & WOLSELEY & PERTH SYDNEY to Melbourne
RAILWAYS OF EASTERN NARACOORTE SOUTH AUSTRALIA
Broad gauge to ADELAIDE MT GAMBIER to Heywood (Vic)
PETERBOROUGH QUORN Y -- Fixed point divergence of two gauges B158
TELFORD AVE
Pedestrian Underpass Ramp Goods Transfer Ramp Traverser 1
Continued 2 = on Vehicle = Y adjacent Y Repair A Diesel Maintenance = = sheet Shop Y * see Detail = A Inset B = 62 *A 66 3 61 9 5 65 = 8 = 10 67 Fuel Point Y *B 7 12 55 68 A see Detail Inset A 4 6 16 11 58 Y 13 14 57 Roundhouse A 15 56 = Carriage Repair HURLSTONE RD SILVER ST
Wash Out
= D TRAVERSER *A D = * Ramp A E= D = E * * *
156 C A PORT PIRIE TRAVERSER *
C Inset B DIESEL MAINTENANCE SHOP DETAILS 1
15 PETERBOROUGH (STATION & LOCO) 1970 - 1988 Drawn: G F Vincent Triple Gauge Era for Inset A National Railway Museum ROUNDHOUSE DETAILS Port Adelaide 1009 Continued STOCK LOADING RAMPS and PLATFORMS on adjacent
sheet
A Y = =
A *A ==
BROKEN HILL = == 71 74 85 88 73 76 86 78 87 90 158 77 89
A 72
RAILWAY TCE Standard Gauge MARSHALLING YARD DAWSON RD 78
M R FO B T * A BOGIE EXCHANGE L P R E F 80 79 B S * N A R T S D O O G *C SG - BG TRANSFER YARD
R FE S C N * A R STOCK VAN T P E WASHOUT E H S
Broad Gauge B MARSHALLING YARD
C
82
81
84 83 PETERBOROUGH (SG/BG YARDS) 1970 - 1988 Drawn: G F Vincent Triple Gauge Era for ADELAIDE National Railway Museum 151 Port Adelaide Y -- Fixed point divergence of two gauges 1010 to Alice Springs (NT) MARREE Historic Notes
A broad gauge railway arrived at Pinnaroo from Adelaide in 1906 and a line of the same gauge formed a connection into Victoria in 1915. Little changed until 1995 when the main interstate line from Adelaide to Melbourne was converted to standard gauge and after a very slow conversion, the Tailem Bend to Pinnaroo branch was opend to standard to Tarcoola gauge traffic in 1998. At that time, the broad gauge link to Victoria was simply cut at the eastern end of the Pinnaroo yard and traffic in that direction suspended. In 2005, a new grain terminal was established several kilometers to the east, just inside the SA/Vic border and following negotiations about the rights to the track, GWA BROKEN HILL assumed control of the track east of Pinnaroo yard and converted it to standard gauge to a point about 1/2 kilometre short of the border (defined as Pinnaroo AWB), leaving a to Parkes (NSW) short overlap with the Victorian broad gauge. For the most part load out of grain was PT AUGUSTA towards SA, but for several years broad gauge grain trains loaded at a portable facility for movement into Victoria. PETERBOROUGH
This facility was short lived as V/Line closed the line west of Panyita because of the PT PIRIE state of the track and the status as a dual gauge location evaporated. GLADSTONE NEW SOUTH WALES
SNOWTOWN BURRA KADINA
LOXTON
ADELAIDE to Ouyen (Vic.) TAILEM BEND PINNAROO
VICTORIA
Standard gauge to ADELAIDE South Australia Victoria WOLSELEY PINNAROO AWB to Melbourne
PINNAROO RAILWAYS OF Broad gauge to OUYEN (V/Line) EASTERN NARACOORTE SOUTH AUSTRALIA
MT GAMBIER to Heywood (Vic)
PINNAROO 265.549
AWB SA Victoria Grain Terminal
264.7 601.309 [RLX2555]
SG
= = TAILEM BEND =
264.4 BG OUYEN(V/Line)
MALLEE HWY PINNAROO AWB PINNAROO GF Loading Point
* This little used facility was made redundant as a dual gauge location when V/Line closed the section of line beyond (west of) Panitya. Drawn: G F Vincent for PINNAROO AWB National Railway Museum 2009 - 2011* Port Adelaide Dual Gauge Era (b.g./ s.g.) 1011 BOGIE EXCHANGE 13263 Y 34 - Points controlled from the Signal Box are shown numbered in pink ADELAIDE -- Fixed point divergence of two gauges
Bogie Exchange configuration in latter years
AUSTRALIAN WHEAT BOARD SIDINGS
Sig.Box THREE CHAIN RD 13333 48 PETERBOROUGH RAILWAY TCE 35A 17 22450 A 22513 68 29 62/63 57 16/15 Y (13341) 22522 22544 69 64/65 35 31 56/55 14 = 4 13348 13364 69 41 33 54 13/12 27 24 10 17 26 55 48 Y 68 16 23 3 5 7 = 54 26 39 53/52 1 11 STOCK TRANSFER PLATFORM2 8 Y 49 61 44 = 15 20 Continued 25 13 37 on Stock Transfer = 28 51/50 10 57 configuration in Sheep Cattle 14 22 51 adjacent early years 60 49 sheet 11 70 34 9 LIVESTOCK YARDS Cattle 20 46 Sheep PORT PIRIE JUNCTION 59 9 18 38 50 (SOLOMONTOWN)
6
A
43 71
45
PORT AUGUSTA BP SIDING * Triple Gauge operations continued till 1970, but the 1967 -1970 period involved extensive construction works for the elimination of the Narrow Gauge and the arrival of the 47 Standard Gauge from Broken Hill. MOBIL OIL TERMINAL The layout changed continuously during this period.
36 PORT PIRIEJUNCTION Drawn: G F Vincent 1937 - 1970 * for Triple Gauge Era National Railway Museum Port Adelaide 1012 6/7 3 === 81 85 4/5 2 === Y -- Fixed point divergence of two gauges A 75 G 21 30 93 * 73 = 77 COAL == GANTRY 98 STOCK LOADING RAMPS
19 71 G 18 B
* G 74 === 133 136
Continued on
8 B 138 SAR CARRIAGE SHED G 141 adjacent sheet 65 132 64 89 91 92 134 D 135 101 * 137 58 WEIGHBRIDGE 142 102 139 Y 140 148 82 155 D 151 149 JOINT LOCO 78 80 86 100 * 88 144 157 156 60 150 154 SHED 90 161 Y 79 153 70 76 146 59 84 143 A 103 145 ng LOCO 166 Historic Notes 61 87 95 63 147 Overleaf 66 83 162 163 67 CR CARRIAGE SHED 69 179 188 165 176 97 192 68 171 186 104 173 181 CR TRANSFER SHED 182 180 198 159 106 99 169 175 200 164 183 178 105 152 158 167 184 107 185 160 PORT PIRIE SOUTH 197 168 189 109 191 193
172 178 196 203 108 195 187 207 204 199 205 bg-ng 202 209
194
TRANSFER SHED 206 211 B 110 ? 210
111 201 COAL TRANSFER COAL
The extension north of Ellen St Station into GANTRY TRANSFER 208 the northern wharf domain and the BHAS 114 smelter complex changed many times in this OIL TANK period, as did the configuration of the wharf FARM itself. Accordingly it is not practical to offer 115 a 'typical layout' for this area. = = 116 = B 117 PORT PIRIE 118 ELLEN STREET B * Triple Gauge operations continued till 1970, MAIN RD but the 1967 -1970 period involved extensive construction works for the elimination of the Narrow Gauge and the arrival of the Standard Gauge from Broken Hill. ELLEN ST The layout changed continuously during this period. 124 130 131 213 121 129 Drawn: G F Vincent 123 125 128 Y PORT PIRIE - PORT PIRIE SOUTH 119 for 120 122 126 127 212 National Railway Museum 1937 - 1970 * Y Port Adelaide B Triple Gauge Era No. 2 BERTH (BALTIC WHARF) PORT PIRIE RIVER 1013 to Alice Springs (NT) MARREE Historic Notes With its significance as a port, Port Pirie was the start point for railway construction in the mid north in 1875 when a 1067mm gauge line pushed inland to Gladstone, Peterborough (then Petersburg), and finally to Broken Hill in 1888. As a narrow gauge terminal, Pt Pirie functioned as a busy complex of industrial and wharf loading facilities until 1937. In this year, lines were completed from Adelaide - broad gauge (1600mm) - and from to Tarcoola Kalgoorlie - standard gauge (1435mm) - making it the first triple gauge complex in Australia, possibly the world. The drawings show the complex as a whole, but in reality there were four discrete parts plus the various industrial off shoots. Pt Pirie Junction was created in 1937 to accommodate the broad-standard passenger interchange and included minor narrow gauge BROKEN HILL facilities. Pt Pirie South yard and the eastern "subsidiary sidings" provided the freight inter- change between the three gauges. These components made up the truly three gauge 'station'. to Parkes (NSW) The pre-existing Ellen Street station was converted to broad-narrow dual gauge and although it was technically a separate entity it has been included to complete the picture. PT AUGUSTA Because Pt Pirie was the meeting point for two separate railway administrations - the Commonwealth Railways and the South Australian Railways - the standard gauge PETERBOROUGH was kept almost entirely separate and hence, unlike Gladstone, there was no three gauge PT PIRIE track here. In preparation for the arrival of the standard gauge from Broken Hill, Ellen St GLADSTONE was abandoned and a new broad-standard two gauge station (Mary Elie St) was opened NEW SOUTH WALES in 1967, but 3 gauge operations continued until 1970. The 3rd era continued until SNOWTOWN BURRA the Crystal Brook-Adelaide standard gauge connection eliminated the broad gauge in 1982. KADINA
LOXTON
ADELAIDE
Standard gauge to Standard gauge to to Ouyen (Vic.) PT AUGUSTA, MARREE PT AUGUSTA, MARREE TAILEM BEND & KALGOORLIE & KALGOORLIE PINNAROO
VICTORIA
Standard gauge to Mixed gauge PETERBOROUGH & BG & NG Narrow gauge to PETERBOROUGH & WOLSELEY PT PIRIE BROKEN HILL PT PIRIE BROKEN HILL (Mary Ellie St) (Ellen St) to Melbourne
PT PIRIE JUNCTION COONAMIA (Slolomontown) RAILWAYS OF EASTERN NARACOORTE SOUTH AUSTRALIA
Broad gauge to ADELAIDE Broad gauge to ADELAIDE MT GAMBIER to Heywood (Vic)
1970 -- 1982 1937 -- 1967/70 PORT PIRIE ADELAIDE
PETERBOROUGH
67 221 THREE CHAIN RD OVERPASS
74 M 51 A
BG MAIN 73 72 68 66 G SG MAIN 26
53 M M 52 64 ADELAIDE ARRIVAL 51A 25 65 M ADELAIDE DEPARTURE 53A M 282 261 174 262 SHUNT MAIN 259 258 70 63280 137 264 260 140 255 134 G 279 263 277 268 278 265 No.3 ROAD 201 Y Sheep Transfer Y 257 256 132 Continued next on page No.2 ROAD 138 203 = 146 152 No.1 ROAD 202 249 144 55 204 PORT AUGUSTA ARRIVAL 248 145 M LOOP 281 171 PORT AUGUSTA DEPART 162 158 LOOP 156 142 170 SHUNT MAIN 143 OLD MAIN 166 161 160 75 OLD MAIN EXENSION 169 159 141 270 235 154 147 133 139 M 76 REPAIR ROAD 56A 167 M Sheep 148 56 Cattle 172 A 78 173
175 79
109
PORT AUGUSTA BP SIDING
110 MOBIL OIL TERMINAL
(EAST YARD) 271 PORT PIRIE Drawn: G F Vincent 1970 - 1982 for Dual Gauge Era National Railway Museum -- Fixed point divergence of two gauges Port Adelaide G -- 'At grade' crossing Y 1014 Signal 18 M M 39 Box Continued on 41 Y -- Fixed point divergence of two gauges previous page 20 42 192 A M CAR WASH 22 191
44 M 328 WEIGHBRIDGE 327 8 42A M 19 M 43A 250 7 M 254 === 235 16 24 43 M M 15 44A 122 4 36 252 M 4 M 195 243 35A 200 199 298 35 REPAIR ROAD M 6 326 299 36A 319 REPAIR ROAD M 34 194 193 5 318 242 108 321 Y 317 318 M 34A C FUEL M * 1 33 129 300 322 JOINT LOCO Y
SHED 3 266 2 309 285 197 267 A 301 196 308 248 247 303 225 241 BG CARRIAGE SHED 304 CR CARRIAGE SHED 224 305 C* 246 223 306 T R A N 188 331 S 244 F E B R O P G L IE A T E F X 187 O C 186 313 112 R H S PORT PIRIE M A H N U G N E T O MARY ELIE STREET 238 R M E A 248 S IN 340 312 237 352 ID 106 IN 120 349 G 235 114 350 234 310 351 113 136 119 128 230 184 331 104 107 345 FUEL182 WEIGHBRIDGE 346 180 329
354
178 341 ? 353
355 Y
342 GANTRY TRANSFER OIL TANK FARM
=
COAL TRANSFER Continued on adjacent sheet 135 B MAIN RD
136 ELLEN ST PORT PIRIE 222 215 214 221 Drawn: G F Vincent MARY ELLIE ST STATION & SOUTH YARD 216 213 for 218 National Railway Museum 1970 - 1982 Port Adelaide Dual Gauge Era B No. 2 BERTH (BALTIC WHARF) PORT PIRIE RIVER 1015 Shell Siding Rare Earth Siding
82
GEORGE ST
ELLEN ST Oil and Acid handling Sidings Smelter Sidings
73
72 == Loaded trains Y Loaded trains Un-loaded trains Loco stub BHAS* SMELTER WORKS
Continued on * and subsequent operators adjacent sheet 71
B TIPPLER
69 70
PORT PIRIE RIVER
B
Y -- Fixed point divergence of two gauges PORT PIRIE (BHAS SMELTER & WHARF) Drawn: G F Vincent 1970 - 1982 for National Railway Museum Dual Gauge Era Port Adelaide 1016 to Alice Springs (NT) MARREE Historic Notes
The railway reached Snowtown from Kadina in 1879 and extended on to Brinkworth in 1894. As such Snowtown was a stopping place on this narrow gauge line carrying farm produce through Kadina to the port at Wallaroo and served this purpose for over 40 years before a north-south line was built heading for Port Pirie. The development of this broad gauge to Tarcoola line passed through Snowtown in 1923 and created a dual gauge station at the junction of these two independent lines.
In 1927 however the whole of the "Western System", which included the Kadina - Brinkworth BROKEN HILL line was converted to broad gauge and Snowtown's first period as a dual gauge station - just 4 years - came to a close. to Parkes (NSW) Much later (1982) it again gained that status.... PT AUGUSTA refer to the section on Mixed Gauge Lines -- Snowtown - Wallaroo Line PETERBOROUGH PT PIRIE GLADSTONE NEW SOUTH WALES BURRA SNOWTOWN KADINA
LOXTON
ADELAIDE to Ouyen (Vic.) TAILEM BEND Broad gauge to PINNAROO RED HILL
VICTORIA
Narrow gauge to BRINKWORTH WOLSELEY to Melbourne
RAILWAYS OF Narrow gauge to KADINA & EASTERN NARACOORTE WALLAROO SOUTH AUSTRALIA
Broad gauge to ADELAIDE MT GAMBIER to Heywood (Vic)
SNOWTOWN WALLAROO
SALT SHED GOODS SHED CRYSTAL BROOK
Y CASTLE SALT Coy.
=
= Y
G B
SULPHURIC ACID ` TRANSFER SIDING
SOUTH TCE
NORTH TCE
ADELAIDE
BRINKWORTH
-- Fixed point divergence of two gauges
Drawn: GY F Vincent SNOWTOWN for 1923 - 1927 National Railway Museum Dual Gauge Era (b.g./ n.g.) Port Adelaide 1017 to Alice Springs (NT) MARREE
Historic Notes
Tailem Bend is the junction on the interstate line to Melbourne, serving the diverse branch lines fanning into the Murray Mallee. For most of its history it has been a bastion of broad gauge with two branches leaving towards Pinnaroo and the to Tarcoola remainder of the Mallee lines via Karoonda. After the peak era of railways in the 1950s, several of the Mallee branch lines closed and by the 1990s the only line extending beyond Karoonda was that to Loxton (which was shortened back to the grain terminal at Tookayerta a few kilometers south of Loxton). In 1995 the Adelaide- Melbourne line was converted to standard gauge as the final step BROKEN HILL in the national gauge conversion program. The line to Tookayerta (Loxton) was converted concurrently with the major project, but the Pinnaroo line was left for to Parkes (NSW) available finance to complete the change and thus for a little over two years, two PT AUGUSTA gauges remained at Tailem Bend whilst the Pinnaroo line was converted by a single gang. PETERBOROUGH Tailem Bend reverted to a single gauge station (standard gauge) in 1998 PT PIRIE GLADSTONE NEW SOUTH WALES
SNOWTOWN BURRA KADINA
LOXTON
ADELAIDE to Ouyen (Vic.) TAILEM BEND PINNAROO Standard gauge to LOXTON Standard gauge to VICTORIA ADELAIDE
WOLSELEY to Melbourne
RAILWAYS OF Broad gauge to PINNAROO EASTERN NARACOORTE SOUTH AUSTRALIA
Standard gauge to SERVICETON
MT GAMBIER to Heywood (Vic)
TAILEM BEND 11 B *
* B
17 * A A *
see Detail Inset
ROUNDHOUSE DETAILS
G
B =
S G
LOXTON
T
115 O
S
T
O P PINNAROO Y
S
T
O
=== Y P
O T
P
O Y
21 T S === 3 4E 23 (22) o.o.s
SERVICETON 4 24 (unused) ADELAIDE
NORTH TCE TREVENA RD
122
Y -- Fixed point divergence of two gauges TAILEM BEND Drawn: G F Vincent for 1996 - 1998 National Railway Museum Dual Gauge Era (b.g./ s.g.) Port Adelaide 1018 MULTIGAUGE TURNTABLES A CASE STUDY IN SYMMETRY To state the obvious, the track on a turntable must match the track approaching the table regardless of which end of the table is connected for access! When multi-gauge track is in use, this becomes more involved and the there are two different design approaches.
SYMMETRICAL ASYMMETRICAL
Symmetrical multigauge turntables use both rails for each gauge laid on a common centre-line. An asymmetrical design uses a common rail table track with a transition in the centre. This is an unusual configuration for the rest of the rail yard and conversions of the track Transitions required on the approaches depend on the dominant yard configuration arrangement are required on each approach to the turntable. If the yard involves broad and and whether the turntable is accessed from one or both ends of a given turntable rotational standard gauges, there is insufficient room for the normal standard gauge rail head and special position. A common rail table design is not suitable for triple gauge operations. rail is laid (see below)
Dual gauge symmetrical
fixed point
Triple gauge symmetrical (Note the standard gauge thin railhead) For illustration purposes some photographs are from other illustrations. fixed fixed points point Drawn: G F Vincent for Typical layout Typical layout National Railway Museum (yard layout - common rail on left) Port Adelaide to Alice Springs (NT) MARREE Historic Notes
Terowie is the archetypal 'change-of gauge' station located without a centre of population and with a railway point where two lines built in opposite directions with different gauges simply met at a point on the map. Since there was little terminating traffic, almost everything that arrived, be it passengers, stock, machinery, parcels, mail and later coal, had to be to Tarcoola trans-shipped. Historically the broad gauge from Adelaide had been extended from Burra to Terowie by 1880 and the narrow gauge was well on the way inland from Port Pirie reaching Peterborough (Petersburg) in 1881. Then in the same year it was extended south to make the Adelaide connection. It is curious, and as of the time probably political, that the broad gauge BROKEN HILL was not continued to Petersburg where there was a developing centre of activity, but ended at Terowie. The dual gauge status remained until 1970 when the broad gauge was extended to Parkes (NSW) to meet the new standard gauge as part of the east coast to west coast standardisation PT AUGUSTA project, and this 90 year period repesented the longest duration of a 'change-of-gauge' status of any station in Australia. PETERBOROUGH From 1917-1937, travellers from Western Australia travelled from Port Augusta via Quorn to their third change of train experience en-route to Adelaide, and during the second world war PT PIRIE TEROWIE the transport northwards of materials and troops of the war effort all changed at Terowie. GLADSTONE Then for over 10 years coal from Leigh Creek heading for Adelaide's power stations was all NEW SOUTH WALES trans-shipped along with cattle from the inland. SNOWTOWN BURRA Thus Terowie was the classic change-of-gauge station. KADINA
LOXTON
ADELAIDE to Ouyen (Vic.) TAILEM BEND PINNAROO
VICTORIA Narrow gauge to PETERBOROUGH
WOLSELEY to Melbourne
RAILWAYS OF EASTERN NARACOORTE SOUTH AUSTRALIA Broad gauge to ADELAIDE
MT GAMBIER to Heywood (Vic)
TEROWIE 4A 9
4 8 10 A
COAL TIPPLER 2
11
1 7 6 12
5 13 15
14 A
ADELAIDE
Continued on adjacent sheet A 21 26 20 STATION 22 27 PASSENGER CAR STABLING Low Level 19 23 28 37 B PASSENGER PLATFORM 18 TRANSFER PLATFORM 30 35 9 36 38 25 29 1 16 17 24 32 PASSENGER PLATFORM 31 34 33 A B REFRESHMENT ROOM
THIRD ST
Drawn: G F Vincent for TEROWIE (COAL TIPPLER - STATION) National Railway Museum 1881 - 1970 Port Adelaide Dual Gauge Era (b.g./ n.g.) 1019 PETERBOROUGH
* ?
51 55 TRANSFER PLATFORM Continued on
adjacent sheet 71 ? PIGGYBACK LOADING
47 62 SHEEP TRANSFER RAMP 77
84 BAY =
B 65 = 61 = 50 66 * 42 92 Y 40 72 70 78 85 49 56 95 43 46 41 5 60 83
54 59 69 81 88 89
? = = 74 = 57 63
ENGINE SHED *
48 79 80 87 90 = = 45 TRANSFER GANTRY 68 73 = * 39 44 58 64 86 53 91
52 67 75 ENGINEERS SIDING ?
B LIVESTOCK SIDING 94 RAILWAY DAM 76 82
GOODS SHED STOCK LOADING RAMPS
93
Y -- Fixed point divergence of two gauges
Drawn: G F Vincent TEROWIE (NORTH YARD) for National Railway Museum 1881 - 1970 Port Adelaide Dual Gauge Era (b.g./ n.g.) 1020 to Alice Springs (NT) MARREE
Historic Notes
The company BHP initiated a narrow gauge "tramway" (only the government could operate "railways") to transport iron ore from the Middleback ranges to Whyalla in 1901 and for the next 70 years it remained an isolated facility that expanded as to Tarcoola required to service a variety of mining locations. In 1972 a standard gauge branch line from Port Augusta was opened to Whyalla to assist in the transport of the steelworks products to the eastern states, but even then the two different gauge systems remained separate entities. BROKEN HILL It was not until the 21st century that the company which had morphed into OneSteel and then into Arrium, changed company objectives and moved into mining at more to Parkes (NSW) remote South Australian locations. Coupled with the company objectives to ship PT AUGUSTA its ore from a new unloading/loading facility at its private Whyalla Port, a new connection was built from each of the networks to reach a common (dual gauge) unloader. PETERBOROUGH WHYALLA PT PIRIE So it was that in 2013 Whyalla became a dual gauge location after 4 decades being known GLADSTONE as a site where two gauges existed, but always in separate yards. NEW SOUTH WALES SNOWTOWN BURRA KADINA
LOXTON
ADELAIDE to Ouyen (Vic.) TAILEM BEND PINNAROO
Standard gauge to PT AUGUSTA VICTORIA
to Melbourne WHYALLA DISCHARGE TERMINAL RAILWAYS OF EASTERN NARACOORTE Narrow gauge to IRON DUKE SOUTH AUSTRALIA (AURRIUM network)
MT GAMBIER to Heywood (Vic)
PORT WHYALLA SPENCER GULF
ORE DUMP STATION
Unnamed Rd 5506
5602
M 5602 M 5504
Y WHYALLA ONESTEEL CASTING 5408 5601
Service Rd
5505
PORT AUGUSTA Y
5402
5402
DUMP RD 5404
SHUNT SPUR WHYALLA ONESTEEL WORKS & ARRIUM n.g. YARD to IRON KNOB & IRON DUKE SALTWORKS RD Drawn: G F Vincent for National Railway Museum WHYALLA STEELWORKS UNLOADER Y -- Fixed point divergence of two gauges Port Adelaide 2013 >>> Dual Gauge Era 1021
SOUTH AUSTRALIA'S MIXED GAUGE MUDDLE
SECTION - B MULTI GAUGE LINES in SA COUNTRY AREAS
Country linesEra Drawing
Bordertown ‐ Serviceton Bordertown 1884 ‐ 1924 1031 Wolseley 1884 ‐ 1955 1032 Serviceton 1884 1898 1033 Port Augusta ‐ Stirling North 1937 ‐ 1955 Port Augusta 1917 ‐ 1957 1034 Stirling (1) 1937 ‐ 1955 1035 Stirling North (2) 1955 ‐ 1966 1036 Snowtown ‐ Wallaroo 1982 ‐ 1990 Snowtown (2) 1982 ‐ 1990 1038 Barunga Gap 1983 ‐ 1990 1039 Bute 1984 ‐ 1990 1039 Kadina 1982 ‐ 1990 1039 Wallaroo 1982 ‐ 1990 1040 Wallaroo bg+sg turnout
For other Country locations refer to Section A - Multi Gauge Stations in Country SA
Drawn: G F Vincent for National Railway Museum Port Adelaide to Alice Springs (NT) MARREE
Historic Notes
Bordertown became the northern terminal and locomotive servicing centre for the Kingston - Naracoorte - Wolseley - Bordertown narrow gauge line in 1883. But it was only four years later in 1887 that the 'Intercolonial' broad gauge line reached Bordertown to Tarcoola and pressed on to Serviceton where it interconnected with the Victorian Railways to provide Australia's first single gauge connection between two capital cities. In this situation Bordertown's dual gauge status was more coincidental than any meaningful point of transfer between the two different gauge lines. Indeed, it was not long before Wolseley 8 miles to the east, became the primary transfer point for BROKEN HILL freight and passengers to change from broad gauge mainline trains to the narrow gauge of the South East system. Surprisingly perhaps, Bordertown continued to host the narrow to Parkes (NSW) gauge locomotive servicing tasks with the narrow gauge element of the dual gauge line PT AUGUSTA to Wolseley providing little more than a locomotive transfer link. This arrangement continued until 1924 when the narrow gauge was closed and the PETERBOROUGH servicing tasks moved to Wolseley. PT PIRIE GLADSTONE NEW SOUTH WALES
SNOWTOWN BURRA KADINA
LOXTON
ADELAIDE to Ouyen (Vic.) TAILEM BEND PINNAROO
Broad gauge to VICTORIA ADELAIDE
BORDERTOWN to Melbourne
Dual Broad/Narrow RAILWAYS OF gauge to WOLSELEY EASTERN NARACOORTE SOUTH AUSTRALIA
MT GAMBIER to Heywood (Vic)
BORDERTOWN *
GOODS SHED
= = =
= = = *
= = = *
WOLSELEY
= =
* = G
ADELAIDE N
ENGINE SHED
NORTH TCE
= = Y = Ash Pit
ENGINE SHED
-- Fixed point divergence of two gauges Y
Drawn: G F Vincent for BORDERTOWN National Railway Museum 1884 - 1917 Port Adelaide Dual Gauge Era (b.g./ n.g.) 1031
Coal Stage
= = = = Loco Coaling Track =
FREIGHT SIDING No.6 = Coal Stage
= =
BRANCH PLATFORM = FREIGHT SIDING No.5 Coal Truck Siding
= =
= FREIGHT SIDING No.4 = =
= WOLSELEY
MAIN = = = MAIN PLATFORM ROAD
ADELAIDE Sheep Transfer Ramp BRANCH
FREIGHT SIDING No.1 = = Stock Transfer Platforms=
= = FREIGHT SIDING = No.2
FREIGHT SIDING No.3
WEST TCE NARACOORTE
TATIARA PDE
* Because Wolseley was a dual gauge station for such an extended period the layout changed in detail many times. As a representative period, this Drawn: G F Vincent diagram is indicative of the layout in the 1930-50 for period whilst it was a Change-of-gauge station for WOLSELEY National Railway Museum the narrow gauge branch to Mount Gambier 1884 - 1955* Port Adelaide Dual Gauge Era (b.g./ n.g.) 1032 Car Dock Car Dock
Coal Stage Coal Stage
= Post 3
LOCO ROADS LOCO ROADS 3 way point Post 4 Station & Customs Building Post 12 Post 10 VR SAR Signal Post 5 Post 17 Post 16 Post 15 Engine Sheds Box B Post 7 WOLSELEY MAIN LINE
MAIN LINE Post 9 No.2 ROAD = HORSHAM (Victoria) Post 2 Post 1 LOOP LINE No.3 ROAD Post 13 No.4 ROAD = Post 6 Goods Platform Post 11 Post 8 Signal Goods Shed GOODS SIDINGS Post 14 Box A
Control from Signal A Control from Signal B
# In the earliest literature this station was * This drawing depicts the short era when the Narrow Gauge from simply referred to as "Joint Station". Wolesley and Kingston SE, and the Broad gauge from Drawn: G F Vincent The station was constructed by VR and as Wolesley and Adelaide, crossed the border as a Dual Gauge line. for a station located in Victoria, it is drawn with to meet the Victorian Broad Gauge. SERVICETON (Victoria) # National Railway Museum Melbourne as the datum (on the left). Subsequently, Wolesley became the prime Change-of-gauge station. 1884 - 1898 Port Adelaide Dual Gauge Era (b.g./ n.g.) 1033 to Alice Springs (NT) MARREE
Historic Notes Port Augusta was the port and starting point for a narrow gauge line in 1879 to Quorn which then extended progressively south to Peterborough and Terowie, and north to Oodnadatta (and much later to Alice Springs). For 33 years it was the centre of operations for this network (along with Peterborough). In 1917 the great project providing to Tarcoola the Trans Australian railway, completed a standard gauge line from Kalgoorlie (WA) to Port Augusta and created a dual gauge environment. This demanded a major change to the local infrastructure with maintenance and repair facilities for the standard gauge operations. The existing station was replaced and new workshops built. Passengers BROKEN HILL transfered to the narrow gauge travelling to Adelaide via Quorn and Terowie (a second change of gauge. Stirling was subsequently established as a junction for Leigh Creek to Parkes (NSW) coal trains to reach the Power Station. 1937 changed the configuration when the standard PT AUGUSTA gauge was extended south to Port Pirie andStirling became a dual gauge junction. The mid 1950 construction of a standard gauge route to Marree which branched north at Stirling (renamed Stirling North) reduced the value ofthe narrow connection into 'The Port' to a PETERBOROUGH service connection for Quorn and finally it was removed altogether in the late 1950s leaving PT PIRIE NEW SOUTH WALES GLADSTONE the whole area to the domain of standard gauge. Much later (2001) narrow gauge returned to the route in the form of a second track BURRA paralleling the main line as an extension of the Pichi Richi Preservation Society's tourist SNOWTOWN train route from Quorn. KADINA
LOXTON
ADELAIDE
Standard Gauge to to Ouyen (Vic.) MARREE TAILEM BEND (Post 1955) PINNAROO
Standard gauge to KALGOORLIE VICTORIA
Narrow gauge to QUORN/ ALICE SPRINGS PORT AUGUSTA WOLSELEY Gauge conversion STIRLING to Melbourne ng>sg 1954 (renamed STIRLING NORTH - 1954)
PORT AUGUSTA POWER STATION RAILWAYS OF (renamed PLAYFORD - 1965) EASTERN NARACOORTE
Standard Gauge to SOUTH AUSTRALIA PORT PIRIE
MT GAMBIER to Heywood (Vic)
PORT AUGUSTA - STIRLING (NORTH) SPENCER GULF Y
WEIGHBRIDGE
RAMP
? GANTRY
S.G CARRIAGE SHED PIGGY-BACK RAMP RAMP
WHARF AREA COMMONWEALTH RAILWAYS WORKSHOPS ===
Pre 1917 Station COMMERCIAL RD Y Route of the pre 1917 narrow gauge (>> wharf area)
N.G CARRIAGE PORT AUGUSTA CITY CBD SHED
BUDD CAR SHED
Roundhouse 19 tracks, some narrow or dual gauge LOOP
= WEIGHBRIDGE == MAIN
PORT AUGUSTA STATION STIRLING (NORTH) Probable location of FLINDERS PDE Bridge ng Loco Servicing
JERVOIS ST Bridge Detailed track & track gauge configurations for this location is sparce. This diagram gives the best KALGOORLIE conceptal presentation of the era, but some details Water Tower are assumed and may be incorrect. (via SPENCER YARD now SPENCER JUNCTION) Y -- Fixed point divergence of two gauges PORT AUGUSTA Drawn: G F Vincent SPENCER YARD for 1917- 1957 National Railway Museum Dual Gauge Era (s.g./ n.g.) Port Adelaide 1034 PORT AUGUSTA Dual Gauge line 1 PLAYFORD POWER STATION 5 4
19 2 7 HARRIS ST 18 16 11
Y
17
Water Tower
w.c w.c
38 Coal Stage
Sig.Box
PORT PIRIE
ALICE SPRINGS 34 - Signals and points controlled from the Signal Box are shown numbered in pink Y -- Fixed point divergence of two gauges STIRLING* Drawn: G F Vincent via Quorn * The location changed name to STIRLING NORTH in the mid 1950s for 1937- 1955 National Railway Museum Dual Gauge Era (n.g./ s.g.) Port Adelaide 1035 PORT AUGUSTA Dual Gauge line = =
= 1 NORTHERN POWER STATION 5 4
19 9
HARRIS ST 27 18 16 11 13
Y Y
15
17 Water Tower
Coal Stage Stirling North standard gauge sidings for 38 marshalling and stock handling were located 500 metres along the Marree line on both sides Sig.Box of the 'Main'. Threre were no dual gauge tracks in that area. 37 39 21 40 3 18
Grade Xing 24 PORT PIRIE 25 MARREE HAWKER 12 26 22
via Quorn 34 - Signals and points controlled from the Signal Box are shown numbered in pink Y -- Fixed point divergence of two gauges STIRLING NORTH Drawn: G F Vincent for 1955- 1966 National Railway Museum Dual Gauge Era (n.g./ s.g.) Port Adelaide 1036 to Alice Springs (NT) MARREE
Historic Notes
The line from Snowtown to Kadina and Wallaroo was initally narrow gauge as part of the Western System from 1879 to 1927. Then along with the rest of that system it was converted to broad gauge and was used primarily to transport grain from the farming to Tarcoola areas of the Mid North to the shipping port at Wallaroo. Its east-west connection through Snowtown to Brinkworth and the Gladstone line made this significant link in the marketing chain for South Australian growers.
In 1982 the north-south line from Adelaide to Port Pirie was converted to standard gauge BROKEN HILL to give Adelaide direct access to the national standard gauge network (diverted from Port Pirie to Crystal Brook in the process) and this line passed through Snowtown. to Parkes (NSW) Decision makers decided to retain the broad gauge 'farm-to-port' line and to give standard PT AUGUSTA gauge access to Wallaroo as well. Accordingly the Snowtown-Wallaroo line was converted to dual gauge encompassing Kadina, Bute and Barunga Gap in the process. PETERBOROUGH However by 1990 the Snowtown to Gladstone line had seen its last broad gauge train, PT PIRIE and without a feed for the grain traffic the dual gauge line fell into disuse. GLADSTONE NEW SOUTH WALES Tourist operators used the broad gauge from Wallaroo to Bute from 1994 to 2007 before SNOWTOWN BURRA the line was abandoned. WALLAROO
LOXTON
ADELAIDE to Ouyen (Vic.) TAILEM BEND PINNAROO
Standard gauge to CRYSTAL BROOK VICTORIA
Broad gauge to BALAKALAVA & GLADSTONE KADINA WOLSELEY Dual Gauge Line SNOWTOWN to Melbourne WALLAROO BUTE BARUNGA GAP RAILWAYS OF Broad gauge to EASTERN ADELAIDE via NARACOORTE BALAKALAVA SOUTH AUSTRALIA (closed) Standard gauge to Broad gauge to ADELAIDE MOONTA
MT GAMBIER to Heywood (Vic)
SNOWTOWN - WALLAROO line
WALLAROO
T O
240 TO
145.490
[RLX0788] CRYSTAL BROOK
=
= 146.946 =
241.7 148 6 Silos 21 146.575 [RLX0022] [RLX0789] M 11 23D 5 M 9A M Y 17 HIGHWAY 1 M 8 23 RAYVILLE RD 2 24 12 M M 9 14 20 13
NORTH TCE 1812m. 4E LUMEAH RD (SOUTH TCE) 22 145.490 4 3 M
7
141 T O 244
O T WIRREANDA RD BRINKWORTH ADELAIDE
-- Fixed point divergence of two gauges SNOWTOWN Drawn:Y G F Vincent for 1982 - 1990 National Railway Museum Dual Gauge Era (b.g./ s.g.) Port Adelaide 1038
BG GOODS SIDINGS = = = = =
Y =
Y L BG GOODS SIDINGS L YY
L
BG MAIN LINE L
Y
MG MAIN LINE Y SNOWTOWN SG MAIN LINE BARUNGA GAP BUTE KULPARA RD
CALTEX SIDING
BOWMANS
GOODS SIDING No.3 WALLAROO
= = GOODS SIDING No.2 =
GOODS SIDING No.1 L
Y
= = = Y
L BG MAIN LINE
MG MAIN LINE RUSSELL ST
MOONTA RD KADINA
MAIN RD
Y -- Fixed point divergence of two gauges
Drawn: G F Vincent BARUNGA GAP - BUTE - KADINA for SNOWTOWN - WALLAROO LINE 1982 - 1990 National Railway Museum Dual Gauge Era (b.g./ s.g.) Port Adelaide 1039 CHARLICK'S SIDINGS
MOONTA (closed)
G S
ABRAHAM RYDEBURG DRV
===
CHATFIELD TCE
ex PASSENGER PLATFORM (fenced) ===
GOODS SHED JETTY
TA MAIN MOON Previous jetty access JETTY RD KADINA
IRWIN ST
Drawn: G F Vincent FERTILISER WALLAROO for SIDING National Railway Museum EMU ST 1982 - 1990 Port Adelaide Dual Gauge Era (b.g./ s.g.) 1040
SOUTH AUSTRALIA'S MIXED GAUGE MUDDLE
SECTION - C MULTI GAUGE STATIONS in ADELAIDE METROPOLITAN AREAS
Metropolitan locationsEra Drawing
Adelaide Rail Passenger Term. 1984 ‐ 2002 1051 Dry Creek MPC 1982 ‐ >>> 1052 Dry Creek South (1) 1982 ‐ 2001 1053 Dry Creek South (2) 2001 ‐ >>> 1054 Islington Freight Centre (AFT) 1982 ‐ 1995 1055 Mile End Freight 1984 ‐ 1995 1056 Port Adelaide Flat 1982 ‐ >>> 1057
For other Metropolitan locations refer to Section D - Multi Gauge Lines in Metropolitan Adelaide Dual Gauge at Dry Creek MPC
Drawn: G F Vincent for National Railway Museum Port Adelaide PORT AUGUSTA line ROSEWORTHY line Historic Notes GAWLER CENTRAL GAWLER Adelaide Rail Passenger Terminal was built in 1984 as part of the standard gauge NURIOOTPA line extension from Crystal Brook into Adelaide and the consequent need to accommodate interstate trains of lengths greater than could be accepted in the Adelaide North terrace station. Non-metropolitan passenger services were then centred at Keswick for both standard gauge interstate trains and broad gauge intrastate trains. In 1995 the mainline to Melbourne was converted to standard gauge.
With no remaining regular broad gauge services to accommodate, the only use of these
rails was the occasional charter train, and later around 2002 (without any fanfare), PELICAN POINT SALISBURY the last broad gauge access at the northern end was cut during some track reconfiguration. OUTER HARBOR
PORT ADELAIDE FLAT
GLANVILLE DRY CREEK CAVAN AFT WOODVILLE
GRANGE ADELAIDE (North Terrace)
MILE END ARPT GOODWOOD
TONSLEY JCN BELAIR BRIDGEWATER WOLSELEY line TONSLEY
Standard gauge to CRYSTAL BROOK
Broad gauge to METRO NETWORK METROPOLITAN NOARLUNGA CENTRE ADELAIDE RAILWAYS Broad gauge to SEAFORD WOLESLEY
ADELAIDE RAIL PASSENGER TERMINAL ANZAC HWY METROPOLITAN WOLSELEY NETWORK METROPOLITAN NETWORK A
42 44 57A = 18 M CRYSTAL BROOK 43
M S 19 G 2 59A A M 59 20 B
BAKEWELL BRIDGE MILE END FREIGHT YARD MILE END LOCO MILE END JUNCTION MILE END FREIGHT YARD
B KESWICK JUNCTION
**
M 30A A Car Wash 34 38A = B CA2 M
M 36 CA1 M 38 30 M 39 35 M Passenger Car Servicing = 39A = A = Motorail Loading B 11 14E 13 = * 21B 14D M M 18A 25 18 14C 10 M M 9 M 20 M M 24 23C 14B 27 M 21A 15 7 = SIR DONALD BRADMAN DR * * M ROAD BRIDGE M 14A 8 19 23A = 25D M 27A
Drawn: G F Vincent for ADELAIDE RAIL PASSENGER TERMINAL National Railway Museum 1984-1996 (2002)* Port Adelaide Dual Gauge Era (b.g./ s.g.) 1051 PORT AUGUSTA line ROSEWORTHY line Historic Notes GAWLER CENTRAL GAWLER Dry Creek has been a junction from the beginning of railways in the Adelaide area, NURIOOTPA line with the main north line to Gawler branching west towards Port Adelaide and a little later, a branch to the east through Cavan and Pooraka to Northfield (and initially on to the Stockade). It naturally developed marshalling facilities.
In 1982 the standard gauge from Crystal Brook reached Dry Creek (and on in 1984 as a dual gauge to Port Adelaide) andthe area developed to provide new facilities.
Dry Creek South yard accomodated a dual gauge wagon servicing depot and later a PELICAN POINT SALISBURY bogie exchange facility was commissioned to permit through movement of loaded OUTER HARBOR wagons from Melbourne (b.g.) to Perth (s.g.). This facility remained in service until
1995 when the line to Melbourne was standardised. PORT ADELAIDE FLAT DRY CREEK GLANVILLE Off to the western side of the main (s.g.) line a Motive Power Centre was built replacing CAVAN the locomotive facilities at Mile End, providing servicing for power units of both gauges. AFT WOODVILLE
GRANGE ADELAIDE (North Terrace)
MILE END
GOODWOOD
TONSLEY JCN BELAIR BRIDGEWATER WOLSELEY line TONSLEY
Standard gauge to Broad gauge to CRYSTAL BROOK Northern SA Network
Dual Gauge to DRY CREEK METROPOLITAN NOARLUNGA CENTRE PORT ADELAIDE ADELAIDE RAILWAYS Broad gauge to ADELAIDE SEAFORD
Standard gauge to ADELAIDE
DRY CREEK (Dry Creek South & Motive Power Centre) CAUTION - STEEP GRADIENT STABLED LOCOMOTIVES TO BE CHOCKED AND
HAND BRAKE APPLIED
A
B H
=
B ==
G
= ==
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DRY CREEK LOOP
Drawn: G F Vincent for DRY CREEK - MOTIVE POWER CENTRE National Railway Museum 1982 >>> Port Adelaide Dual Gauge Era (b.g./ s.g.) 1052 DRY CREEK MPC (Refer to drawing 1052) 22B 23 National Standard Gauge Main
24 == 21 22
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= = F: Dry Creek Junction (Aux Main) = BOGIE EXCHANGE 2 G: Dry Creek Junction (Sig. - 12) # H: Dry Creek Junction (Sig. - 10) J: Dry Creek Junction (Sig. - 8) 32 53 # STANDARD K: Adelaide (Metro. b.g. lines) GAUGE ONLY
A: Crystal Brook (s.g. Main) B: Dry Creek North (Aux Main) Refer to drawing 1061 C: b.g. access (to Metro lines) D: Gawler (Metropolitan b.g. lines)
DRY CREEK SOUTH BROAD GAUGE YARD E A
F Y B
G 55 54 C H 54B
J D Metropolitan Broad Gauge Lines
K PORT WAKEFIELD RD BRIDGE
# -- Teletrac parking bay Y -- Fixed point divergence of two gauges DRY CREEK SOUTH 1982 -- 2001 Drawn: G F Vincent for Dual Gauge Era National Railway Museum Port Adelaide 1053 22B DRY CREEK MPC 42A M (Refer to drawing 1052)
23 National Standard Gauge Main
= 21 =
M M 40 42
S t S a
G n d 19 a rd 40A M G a u g e in M a p a M o in o e L g ONE SPOT ACCESS RD u e a g u G a d r G a d WAGON SERVICING d r S n a t a d a t n n S d ta a S rd G a u g e L o o p 25 27
previous
= BOGIE EXCHANGE E: Adelaide/Pelican Point (s.g. Main) =
F: Dry Creek Junction (Loop) 44A M
M
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Y G: Dry Creek Station (Sig.-1078) A 45 M H: Adelaide (Metro. b.g. lines) STANDARD = S GAUGE SN = L ONLY 26 28 LOW SPEED A: Crystal Brook (s.g. Main) UNTIL NEXT B: Dry Creek North (Aux Main) Refer to drawing 1064 SIGNAL C: b.g. access (to Metro lines) D: Gawler (Metropolitan b.g. lines)
DRY CREEK SOUTH BROAD GAUGE YARD P
U H
E S A
F Y B
C G
D Metropolitan Broad Gauge Lines
H PORT WAKEFIELD RD BRIDGE
Y -- Fixed point divergence of two gauges DRY CREEK SOUTH 2001 >> Drawn: G F Vincent Dual Gauge Era for National Railway Museum Port Adelaide 1054 PORT AUGUSTA line ROSEWORTHY line Historic Notes GAWLER CENTRAL GAWLER The Adelaide terminal for freight moved from its long standing location at Mile End to a NURIOOTPA line new location on the western side of the Gawler line in the suburb of Regency Park opposite the Islington Works in 1982. This coincided with the arrival of connection to the national standard gauge system in the line from Crystal Brook, and paved the way for the development of the Keswick passenger terminal and subsequently for the Mile End passing loop on the line to Melbourne (in 1995). The terminal was originally known as Islington Freight Centre (although it was neither part of the Islington Works or in a suburb of that name) and adopted several names perhaps based on the whims of the variety of terminal lessees that followed. It is now known as Adelaide Freight Terminal under the care of Pacific National, although PELICAN POINT SALISBURY the network manager ARTC still continues to refer to it illogically as "Islington". OUTER HARBOR From its inception the centre was almost all dual gauge with standard gauge entry available from both ends, but with broad gauge entry only from the south. In 1995 the PORT ADELAIDE FLAT
commissioning of the standard gauge line to Melbourne ended general freight traffic GLANVILLE DRY CREEK on all broad gauge lines in SA and the b.g. connection was removed. Although CAVAN much of the track in the terminal is still dual gauge, without broad gauge access, the WOODVILLE AFT 'dual gauge' category ended. GRANGE ADELAIDE (North Terrace)
MILE END
GOODWOOD
TONSLEY JCN BELAIR BRIDGEWATER WOLSELEY line TONSLEY Standard gauge to CRYSTAL BROOK
SA Broad gauge NETWORK
METROPOLITAN NOARLUNGA CENTRE IFC (AFT) ADELAIDE SA Broad gauge RAILWAYS NETWORK SEAFORD
Standard gauge to WOLSELEY
ISLINGTON FREIGHT CENTRE (ADELAIDE FREIGHT TERMINAL) Intermodal Yard ===
Ramp
Hardstand Freight Forwarders >>
4 5 6 7 8 9 1011 12 123 AFT ACCESS RD 32B Y === 32A
MELBOURNE CRYSTAL BROOK 37A M 46D 678 Ballast Siding 45 46 === 33 32 37 M M M IG5A 40A IG6 M National Standard Gauge Main Y 43 40 M 673 A IG4 34 36 44 M
M IG5 IG4A M ISLINGTON WORKS KILBURN Metropolitan Broad Gauge Lines
IG3A M IG3 675 M 35 676
REGENCY RD ISLINGTON WORKS ISLINGTON WORKS BRIDGE
* In the original dual gauge era the terminal was known as ISLINGTON FREIGHT CENTRE. Since that time the coloquial name has varied, generally dictated by the various ISLINGTON FREIGHT CENTRE* terminal operators, until today it is known as AFT (ADELAIDE FREIGHT TERMINAL) (although the track operator Y -- Fixed point divergence of two gauges 1982 - 1995 still refers to it - somewhat confusingly - as ISLINGTON) Dual Gauge Era
1055 PORT AUGUSTA line ROSEWORTHY line Historic Notes GAWLER CENTRAL GAWLER Mile End was the major Freight, Goods and Loco depot for the Adelaide area, as it had NURIOOTPA line been for many years, when the standard gauge arrived in 1984. Not-with-standing the development of new facilities at Dry Creek, a number of forwarders remained to be serviced at Mile End. A simplified yard with both broad and standard gauges, was instituted and for some time also accommodated the Diesel Loco depot. Eventually the loco depot migrated to the new MPC at Dry Creek and the area gradually wound down, and it closed in time to make way for the new Mile End crossing loop on the new standard gauge connected southward to Melbourne. This last inter-capital Standard gauge link was eventually commissioned in 1995 and with the simultaneous closer of remaining general freight based country broad gauge lines, PELICAN POINT SALISBURY the Mile End yards finally closed. OUTER HARBOR
PORT ADELAIDE FLAT
GLANVILLE DRY CREEK CAVAN AFT WOODVILLE
GRANGE ADELAIDE (North Terrace)
MILE END KPT
GOODWOOD
TONSLEY JCN BELAIR BRIDGEWATER WOLSELEY line TONSLEY
Standard gauge to CRYSTAL BROOK
Northern SA Broad gauge NETWORK METROPOLITAN NOARLUNGA CENTRE ADELAIDE Southern SA RAILWAYS Broad gauge NETWORK SEAFORD
MILE END ANZAC HWY METROPOLITAN WOLSELEY NETWORK METROPOLITAN NETWORK
42 44 57A = 18 M CRYSTAL BROOK 43 KESWICK PASSENGER TERMINAL
M S 19
59A G 2
M A 59 KESWICK PASSENGER TERMINAL 20
A B BAKEWELL KESWICK JUNCTION BRIDGE B MILE END JUNCTION
B
B
M SIR DONALD BRADMAN DRV HILTON BRIDGES
2D
A
M
M 45 BROAD GAUGE YARD A M M 47E 47 = MIXED GAUGE YARD
M 49B 49 = Diesel Loco Depot =
= =
* to Industrial Sidings MILE END Drawn: G F Vincent 1982-1996 for National Railway Museum Dual Gauge Era (b.g./ s.g.) Port Adelaide 1056 = PORT AUGUSTA line ROSEWORTHY line Historic Notes GAWLER CENTRAL GAWLER Rails have been in Port Adelaide from the very beginning of railways in the Adelaide NURIOOTPA line environment (1856) serving both passenger and freight needs of Adelaide's port. The configuration has changed many times in and around the port's many nooks and crannies, warehouses and docks. At the coming of container traffic a yard was developed on the NE corner of Eastern Parade and Grand Trunkway.
In 1982 the new standard gauge from Crystal Brook demanded a new dual gauge configuration of rail traffic in the port and Port Adelaide Flat was established as the container terminal, along with a marshalling yard to provide easy connection to the range of inner port silo installations. PELICAN POINT SALISBURY OUTER HARBOR The configuration changed again when then new rail bridge was built in 2008 over the Port River, with a triangle junction being built providing direct access from the yard to PORT ADELAIDE FLAT Pelican Point without reversal shunting. GLANVILLE DRY CREEK CAVAN AFT WOODVILLE
GRANGE ADELAIDE (North Terrace)
MILE END
GOODWOOD
TONSLEY JCN BELAIR BRIDGEWATER WOLSELEY line TONSLEY
Dual gauge to PELICAN POINT
PORT ADELAIDE FLAT
PORT ADELAIDE FLAT METROPOLITAN NOARLUNGA CENTRE ADELAIDE RAILWAYS Dual gauge to Dual gauge to GILLMAN DRY CREEK SEAFORD PT ADELAIDE JCN JUNCTION (closed)
PORT ADELAIDE FLAT
1057
Port Adelaide Port
Dual Gauge Era (b.g./ s.g.) (b.g./ Era Gauge Dual National Railway Museum Railway National
for 1982 >>> 1982
Drawn: G F Vincent Vincent F G Drawn: PORT ADELAIDE FLAT ADELAIDE PORT
(via GILLMAN JUNCTION) GILLMAN (via
DRY CREEK DRY
B >
/ S
37 53 TURNOUT
FOR M
WHEN SET WHEN [RLX1887]
6.746 SG ONLY SG
KERRY LOGISICS CONTAINER TERMINAL CONTAINER LOGISICS KERRY
B
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S = =
HARD STAND HARD
GRAND TRUNKWAY GRAND
#4 ROAD #4 ===
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#3 ROAD #3
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#3 RUN #3
PERKINS DR PERKINS #2 ROAD #2
51 M
BG
#2 RUN #2 #1 ROAD #1 Joe Whites ROAD Whites Joe
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* This line added in 2012 in added line This *
M 54
===
B/S >
FENCE ROAD SHED ROAD
#3 DOCK #3
PORT RIVER PORT
7.438
bridge
opening
SG
Discharge
Grain Port River bridge in 2008 in bridge River Port
the opening of the the of opening the
PELICAN POINT PELICAN
25 BERTH 25 Discharge
* This section added with added section This * 29 BERTH 29
Sands
MOONTA RD MOONTA Mineral HARD STAND HARD
#4 ROAD #3 ROAD #2 ROAD #1 ROAD #6 ROAD #5 ROAD 29 BERTH 29 SOUTH AUSTRALIA'S MIXED GAUGE MUDDLE
SECTION - D MULTI GAUGE LINES in ADELAIDE METROPOLITAN AREAS
Metropolitan lines Era Drawing
Dry Creek ‐ Pelican Point 1982 ‐ 2008 (via Glanville) Dry Creek Junction 1982 ‐ 2001 1061 Gillman Junction 1982 ‐ 2008 1062 Port Adelaide Junction 1982 ‐ 2008 1062 Glanville 1982 ‐ 2008 1062 Birkenhead 1982 ‐ 2008 1063 Osborne 1982 ‐ 2008 1063 Pelican Point 1982 ‐ 2008 1063 Dry Creek ‐ Pelican Point 2008 ‐ 2015 (via Port River Bridge) Dry Creek Junction 2001 ‐ 2015 1064 Bishop 2010 ‐ 2015 1065 Gillman Junction 2008 ‐ 2015 1065 Port Adelaide Flat 2008 ‐ 2015 1065 Birkenhead 2008 ‐ 2015 1066 Osborne 2008 ‐ 2015 1066 3rd rail transition with moving blades - Pt Adelaide Flat Pelican Point 2008 ‐ 2015 1067 Moving blades installed to permit line sp eed transit Dry Creek ‐ Pooraka/Cavan 1982 ‐ ~2001 through the transition (but prevented mixed gauge trains) Pooraka/Cavan 1982 ‐ ~2001 1068
Drawn: G F Vincent For other Metropolitan locations refer to for National Railway Museum Section C - Multi Gauge Stations in Metropolitan Adelaide Port Adelaide PORT AUGUSTA line ROSEWORTHY line Historic Notes GAWLER CENTRAL GAWLER Standard gauge was added to the initial Dry Creek - Port Adelaide line NURIOOTPA line as part of the Crystal Brook - Adelaide line conversion in 1982 to provide access for this gauge to the port environment. To include access to port related services on the LeFevre Peninsula, the additional rail was also added to the "Rosewater Loop", the metropolitan line over the viaduct, around via Glanville to the freight line at Birkenhead, and then via the "backway" through Osborne to the tip of the peninsula (this later section operating as a "yard"). This access for standard and broad gauge movements continued until plans were laid for of a new grain terminal at Pelican Point/Outer Harbor. With the new storage limited, and with supplies for ship loading to be to be provided on a "just-in-time" basis, it was predicted that the PELICAN POINT SALISBURY number of train movement per day would increase significantly. OUTER HARBOR PORT ADELAIDE FLAT The route was deemed to be unable to cater for this traffic, and a new access was established by building an additional rail bridge directly over the Port River from the GLANVILLE location of the Port Adelaide Flat rail yard. This development, along with a DRY CREEK complete rebuild of the 'yard' from Birkenhead to Pelican Point was commissioned in POORAKA AFT 2008 and a new route established --- refer to the section... WOODVILLE Dry Creek - Pelican Point (via Port River Bridge) line GRANGE ADELAIDE (North Terrace)
MILE END KPT
GOODWOOD
TONSLEY JCN BELAIR BRIDGEWATER WOLSELEY line TONSLEY
Broad gauge PELICAN POINT industrial siding Standard gauge to Broad gauge to CRYSTAL BROOK Northern SA Network
Broad gauge to OUTER HARBOR OSBORNE Dual gauge to PT ADELAIDE FLAT
GLANVILLE METROPOLITAN NOARLUNGA CENTRE Dual Gauge Line DRY CREEK ADELAIDE GILLMAN PT ADELAIDE RAILWAYS JUNCTION JUNCTION Broad gauge to SEAFORD Standard gauge ADELAIDE industrial siding
Broad gauge to Standard gauge to ADELAIDE ADELAIDE
DRY CREEK - PELICAN POINT (via GLANVILLE) line PELICAN POINT
1
0.545 [RLX0016] 20 M
0.291 [RLX0062]
MAGAZINE RD
4
37 M M 40 16 DRY CREEK SOUTH Y M 14 M 39 (and MPC JUNCTION) 40A Y 38A [refer diagram 1053] 11.367 M 38 M [RLX0013] 12
37 M 10 ADELAIDE DRY CREEK SOUTH YARD 20A DC78 55 [refer diagram 1053] 3 M M DC33 M DC77A M M DC76A DC76 M M 35 1078
1074 1171 A M DC77 Signal M
A Box M 1076 DC76 DC79 DC31 1076 1173 A
A DC80A 1071 M DC33A 6 M M ADELAIDE M DC82
M A DC32 M 1072 DC80 DRY CREEK
CORMACK RD
Y -- Fixed point divergence of two gauges DRY CREEK JUNCTION
Drawn: G F Vincent 1982 - 2001 for Dual Gauge Era National Railway Museum Port Adelaide 1061 "ROSEWATER LOOP" 1151 == A ADELAIDE 1155 PA1A M 1153 1156 PA1 NEWCASTLE ST RUSSELL ST M
= CANNING ST
ONE STEEL SIDING = M PA2A =
CORMACK RD PA2 M GRAND JUNCTION RD
EASTERN PDE PA3A M PORT ADELAIDE JUNCTION
= = = 13 59 PA4A M A A * M PA3 PA4 M 58 12 M 11 17 M
1157 17A P WINGFIELD RD NORTH ARM RD = DRY CREEK = = NATIONAL RAILWAY MUSEUM = COLLEGE ST PORT RIVER GILLMAN 16 A 1152 1251 P
PORT ADELAIDE FLAT P F A 1252 1254 =
COMMERCIAL ST CHURCH ST = 1352 PORT ADELAIDE RENNIE ST P
ETHELTON
A 1351 = = JERVOIS BRDG
B GV1A M A GV2 M 1451 1456
NELSON ST GLANVILLE *B == M GV1 OUTER HARBOR SEMAPHORE RD
= 3 = =
8 M BIRKENHEAD
Drawn: G F Vincent PELICAN POINT GILLMAN - ROSEWATER - BIRKENHEAD for 4 4D National Railway Museum DRY CREEK - PELICAN POINT (via GLANVILLE) LINE A A 1982 - 2008 Dual Gauge Era (b.g./ s.g.) Port Adelaide Continued on adjacent sheet 1062 No. 6 BERTH (OUTER HARBOR)
DUBAI PORTS CONTAINER TERMINAL SIDINGS
Disused OLD OUTER HARBOR SIDINGS
Continued MOBIL OIL SIDING on adjacent sheet
A ELDER RD B
PELICAN POINT RD
OSBORNE B A LARGS NORTH WILLOCHRA RD
B PELICAN POINT
STOP
= = =
B STOP KENMARE ST SOLVAY RD HAMILTON AVE VEITCH RD
MERSEY RD
TERMINALS P/L LARGS NORTH - PELICAN POINT Drawn: G F Vincent Oil Terminal DRY CREEK - PELICAN POINT (via GLANVILLE) LINE PENRICE SODA PRODUCTS SIDINGS for SIDING 1982 - 2008 Dual Gauge Era (b.g./ s.g.) National Railway Museum Port Adelaide 1063
PORT AUGUSTA line ROSEWORTHY line Historic Notes GAWLER CENTRAL GAWLER Standard gauge was first added to the Dry Creek - Port Adelaide line in 1982 and NURIOOTPA line extended to the LeFevre Peninsula via the "Rosewater Loop", the metropolitan line over the viaduct, around via Glanville to the freight line at Birkenhead, and then via the "backway" through Osborne to the tip of the peninsula. Refer to the section Dry Creek - Pelican Point (via Glanvillee) line
A route via a new bridge over the Port River was commissioned to cater for the increased traffic servicing a new grain terminal at Pelican Point.
PELICAN POINT This development, along with a complete rebuild of the 'yard' from Birkenhead to SALISBURY Pelican Point was commissioned in 2008. OUTER HARBOR PORT ADELAIDE FLAT
BIRKENHEAD DRY CREEK GLANVILLE POORAKA AFT WOODVILLE
GRANGE ADELAIDE (North Terrace)
MILE END KPT
GOODWOOD
TONSLEY JCN BELAIR BRIDGEWATER WOLSELEY line TONSLEY Standard gauge grain loop Broad gauge PELICAN POINT industrial siding
OSBORNE Standard gauge to Broad gauge to CRYSTAL BROOK Northern SA Network
PORT ADELAIDE FLAT see separate diagram METROPOLITAN BIRKENHEAD PORT ADELAIDE FLAT NOARLUNGA CENTRE ADELAIDE
Port River Dual Gauge Line DRY CREEK RAILWAYS BISHOP SEAFORD GILLMAN JUNCTION Abandoned Broad gauge to Standard gauge Rosewater Loop ADELAIDE industrial siding
Standard gauge to ADELAIDE
DRY CREEK - PELICAN POINT (via PORT RIVER BRIDGE) line PELICAN POINT
B > /S
1
38A 0.545 M
20 M [RLX0016]
0.291 [RLX0062]
5
MAGAZINE RD
38A M 4
M 38 M 37
16 DRY CREEK SOUTH (LOOP and MPC JUNCTION) 16E [refer diagram 1053]
11.367
[RLX0013] G
S GWA DRY CREEK SOUTH
ADELAIDE GWA YARD
DC76 DC78
20A C M M A 3 M 1077 078 1 AC A 1073 1171 A M DC31A M DC77 1071 F DC30
YL DC79 A A A
M 1075 A 1076 1173 M
M M DC32A DC31 DC80A M M DC80
P M M
YL DC32 M DC33A DC82A DC33 DRY CREEK 1072 M
CORMACK RD DRY CREEK RCD DRY CREEK RCD
DRY CREEK JUNCTION
Drawn: G F Vincent 2001 >> for Dual Gauge Era National Railway Museum Port Adelaide 1064 BLUESCOPE LYSAGHT SIDING
RAILWAY TCE 3.556 [RLX1698]
1.924
D
[RLX0014] T t R A 11 23E
13 17 20 23 M 14E 1500m. M > B/S B/S> DRY CREEK ===
14 24 3.1
SOUTH RD HANSON RD
SUPERWAY (OVER) BISHOP
4.967 [RLX0183]
4.8 DTEI line to PORT ADELAIDE JUNCTION === (closed) 33 Note T/O 27 is locked from being reversed 36
M 5.481 27 34 [RLX0184] B S
EASTERN PDE
BEDFORD ST = GILLMAN JUNCTION =
52 M PTS
[RLX0015] 52 FRANCIS ST 6.074 XING & OVERPASS [RLX2126]
44 6.709 [RLX1888] BIRKENHEAD
PERKINS DR PRIVATE RD
B
B> /S 53 S 7.438 S t B 54 52 M
B/S> 37 M === opening M === bridge 60B GWA
BISHOP - GILLMAN - PORT ADELAIDE FLAT = = 55 DRY CREEK - PELICAN POINT LINE 2008 >>> = M PORT RIVER 60A Drawn: G F Vincent Dual Gauge Era for PORT ADELAIDE FLAT National Railway Museum Port Adelaide 1065 M BERTH LX APPROACH. MOVEMENTS RETURNING TO BIRKENHEAD MUST CLEAR THIS MOBIL OIL SIDING POINT PRIOR TO PROCEDING 8.087 9.336 [RLX0177] [RLX0959] ELDER RD S B CLX
63E R A
64E 75 > = = = B/S WEST DUAL GAUGE MAIN 71
63
B/S> ======EAST DUAL GAUGE MAIN
61 M M 47 64
73 BGX A
8.766 [RLX0954] STIRLING ST M BERTH ACCESS BROAD GAUGE CALTEX ACCESS RD NOT AUTHORISED ON WEST LINE BIRKENHEAD WITHOUT TRAIN AUTHORITY PORT RIVER BRIDGE & PT ADELAIDE FLAT TRIANGLE
9.886 11.756 12.031 BROAD GAUGE [RLX0178] [RLX0962] [RLX0963] NOT AUTHORISED WITHOUT TRAIN AUTHORITY PELICAN POINT t t
0SBORNE
A 57A B = = M =
76 81 = = = BGX M M A 57 74 82 B
WILLOCHRA ST 80 SOLVAY RD HAMILTON AV LARGS NORTH
PENRICE SODA PRODUCTS SIDINGS
BIRKENHEAD - OSBORNE DRY CREEK - PELICAN POINT LINE 2008 >>> Dual Gauge Era 1066 No. 6 BERTH (OUTER HARBOR)
MACKENZIE INTERMODAL TERMINAL SIDING
DUBAI PORTS CONTAINER TERMINAL SIDINGS
BG MOVEMENT SHALL ARTC NOT PROCEED
PAST THIS POINT
YAA BGX START CTC.
CTC
WITHOUT AUTHORITY X G
B BROAD GAUGE
C T OF YARD SUPERVISOR C NOT AUTHORISED 94 94E WITHOUT TRAIN AUTHORITY
M 104 M 102A PELICAN POINT RD 14.896 [RLX0181]
102 M
100 M
unloader
CTC CTC 93E 93 Viterra Grain GRAIN TERMINAL DRY CREEK 12.981 [RLX0180]
83E PELICAN POINT
97
83 M 84E
= = = M 90 M 89 84
weighbridge VEITCH RD 84D mounted back to back CTC Drawn: G F Vincent PELICAN POINT for National Railway Museum 2008 >>> Port Adelaide Dual Gauge Era 1067 PORT AUGUSTA line Historic Notes ROSEWORTHY line GAWLER CENTRAL GAWLER The Pooraka-Cavan complex on the original broad gauge Northfield (Stockade) line NURIOOTPA line was established in 1913 as the stock receival terminal for the Adelaide meat supply industry. It was still performing this function in 1982 when the standard gauge connection to Crystal Brook and the national network reached Dry Creek and because the railways were still in the business of transporting stock it was clearly necessary to extend this facility into the stock arrival complex. It was achieved by connecting a standard gauge lead from the Dry Creek North yard, across the metropolitan Gawler line and through a series of unloading sidings and then as a dual gauge line, east to Cavan and Pooraka. An independent broad gauge line was retained to permit metropolitan trains uninterupted PELICAN POINT access to the line (until the demise of this service in 1987. SALISBURY OUTER HARBOR Eventually the carriage of stock by rail was abandoned in South Australia in 1997 and PORT ADELAIDE FLAT the Cavan/Pooraka branch was abandoned. DRY CREEK GLANVILLE POORAKA AFT WOODVILLE
GRANGE ADELAIDE (North Terrace)
MILE END KPT
GOODWOOD
TONSLEY JCN BELAIR BRIDGEWATER
Standard gauge to WOLSELEY line CRYSTAL BROOK TONSLEY
Broad gauge DRY CREEK NORTH Metropolitan Network YARD
DRY CREEK MPC
DRY CREEK SOUTH DRY CREEK METROPOLITAN POORAKA NOARLUNGA CENTRE YARD JUNCTION ADELAIDE
Dual gauge to CAVAN RAILWAYS PELICAN POINT SEAFORD
Broad gauge to ADELAIDE
DRY CREEK - POORAKA line CRYSTAL BROOK GAWLER 106
DC127 M 1472 A 106D DRY CREEK NORTH YARD (s.g.) DC127A M Elders Siding 103
BG ALTERNATE MAIN (THROUGH ROAD)
to DRY CREEK SOUTH YARD
PT WAKEFIELD RD
Sheep unloading ramps, platforms & yards = = Stock unloading platform
Stock unloading platform
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CHURCHILL RD PT WAKEFIELD RD =
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= COLD STORES C 3D
Siding CAVAN
= C = M 7
1178 * 3 M 20
SG 5424 A 61 SG M M 62 M 9 POORAKA 1176 5D 87 M M
A 88 Abandoned Export Sidings 20A 26 28 83 M 62D
A 1174 D ARC Siding COMENG ARESCo * Siding
M 83A = 82 M 84 = M SOUTHERN YARDS M80 80A D M Stock unloading platform 79M E *
A A 1173 DRY CREEK 1171 E ADELAIDE CAVAN - POORAKA DRY CREEK - POORAKA BRANCH LINE 1982 - 1997 Drawn: G F Vincent for Dual Gauge Era National Railway Museum, Port Adelaide 1068