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The SteamRanger Heritage Railway is an 82 kilometres (51 miles) long 1600 mm (5 ft 3 in) broad gauge tourist railway, formerly the Victor Harbor railway line of the South Australian Railways (SAR). It is operated by the not-for-profit South Australian Division of the Australian Railway Historical Society. As the last operating non-suburban line ...
SteamRanger Heritage Railway: Strathalbyn, SA: Scrapped [34] 824 329 17 Dec 1912 6 Jun 1961 SteamRanger Heritage Railway Goolwa, SA: Operational [31] 830 467 30 Jun 1924 29 Sep 1968 SteamRanger Heritage Railway Mount Barker, SA: Stored [23] 831 458 20 Apr 1918 24 Dec 1969 Port Milang Historic Railway Museum Milang, SA: Not operating [35] 832 ...
Rosewood Railway [44] (railway operation suspended as at December 2022 [45]) Savannahlander—Cairns–Forsayth. [46] Sea World Railway, Main Beach— 610 mm (2 ft) gauge. (railway operation ceased by 2022; not to be confused with monorail which also ceased from 2022 [47]) Southern Downs Steam Railway—former name of Downs Explorer, q.v. above
South Australian Railways (SAR) was the statutory corporation through which the Government of South Australia built and operated railways in South Australia from 1854 until March 1978, when its non-urban railways were incorporated into Australian National, and its Adelaide urban lines were transferred to the State Transport Authority.
The SteamRanger Heritage Railway was established in 1986 to operate tourist trains on the line. In late 1989, Australian National declared the Mount Barker Junction–Strathalbyn section unsafe due to poor track condition and SteamRanger operated services from Adelaide to Strathalbyn were cancelled.
The Overland Railway. Australian Railway Historical Society NSW Div. St James. 1992. Callaghan W.H. 'Railways Rather than Roads'. Australian Railway History. September 2006 et seq. Castle B.J. 'The Balhannah–Mount Pleasant branch line'. Australian Railway Historical Society Bulletin p.316. February 1964. Collins N. The jetties of South Australia.
SteamRanger has 60 (75) which was converted from condemned Brill trailer 207 and also 43 (75) which was donated to the society at no cost long-time ARHS member John Wilson. [6] [7] Trailer 200MT, sold to the Victorian Railways in 1928, was preserved at the Seymour Railway Heritage Centre. It was later transferred to the South Gippsland Railway.
During the war years in the early 1940s, the South Australian Railways (SAR) had a desperate need for additional tractive power on increasingly growing troop and supply trains and with the combined need for quick acceleration and high speed running on the flat and generally straight mainlines to the north of Adelaide to Port Pirie, as well as power "under the belt" for the long 19-mile (31 km ...