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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 ...
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.
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.
Australian Model Railway Magazine ISSN 0045-009X [2] Australian Railway History ISSN 1449-6291; Australian Railway ISSN 0818-4313 1986–1988; Green over Red 1966–1972; Light Railways ISSN 0727-8101 (1963-) Locomotion ISSN 1835-4890; Motive Power ISSN 1442-7079 (1998–present) Narrow Gauge Down Under ISSN 1834-5565; Network ISSN 0159-7302 ...
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.
In 2000, two of the cars, 606 and 712, were sold by SteamRanger to Steve Moritz following his purchase of 715. 606 was purchased by the Port Dock Railway Museum at the end of 2000 and delivered in 2001; expressions of interest were sought by the Australian Locomotive and Railway Carriage Co for sale of 712 and 715 in 2010.