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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 ...
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.
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
A further 54 locomotives were built as Rx class by the Islington Railway Workshops, North British Locomotive Company and Walkers Limited with all engines in service by May 1916. [1] The R class engines were the predominant locomotive used on broad gauge main line services in South Australia from their introduction.
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 ...
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 ...
2006 and 2112 were preserved and gifted to National Railway Museum, Port Adelaide [16] 2010 and 2109 were delivered to SteamRanger Heritage Railway via road. [17] 2009 and 2104 were donated to the South Australian Metropolitan Fire Service for use in training exercises. [17] The rest were sent by road and scrapped in June 2016 at Simsmetal. [13 ...
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 ...