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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.
An NSU class diesel locomotive, mainstay of the Central Australia Railway and the North Australia Railway since the 1950s, on display at the Adelaide River Rail Heritage Precinct. The Northern Territory was part of South Australia from 1863 to 1911, when it was transferred to Commonwealth control.
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The Redhen railcars (originally, Red Hen) [1] was the nickname given to the 300 and 400 classes of diesel-hydraulic railcars designed by the South Australian Railways and built at its Islington Railway Workshops between 1955 and 1971. The railcars, which operated in Adelaide suburban service until 1996, remain a nostalgic part of South ...
620 Sir Winston Dugan in decorated in green and silver for the Centenary Train which toured the state during the Centenary of South Australia in 1936. The completion of the South Australian Railway (SAR) broad gauge route between Adelaide and Port Pirie created a need for a fast, light passenger locomotive to haul this service, as well as other traffic on the lightly laid 60 lb/yd (29.8 kg/m ...
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.
The South Australian Railways T class was a class of seventy-eight 1067 mm (3 ft 6 in) narrow-gauge 4-8-0 steam locomotives operated by the South Australian Railways. Several were sold to the Tasmanian Government Railways; some others operated on the Commonwealth Railways. Four were converted to operate on 1600 mm (5 ft 3 in) broad-gauge lines.
Two models of the Brill railcar were operated by the South Australian Railways between 1925 and 1971. Introduced to run on country rail services, the "Barwell Bulls" serviced most of the state's railway lines until they were eventually replaced by both the Bluebird and Redhen railcars. The last units were withdrawn in 1971.