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The first railway in colonial South Australia was the horse-drawn tramway from Goolwa to Port Elliot opened in 1854, providing a rail link from the port of Goolwa on the Murray River to an ocean harbour at Port Elliot.
A gondola car built by the South Australian Railways in the 1920s to an American Car and Foundry design. In North American railroad terminology, [note 1] a gondola car or gondola is typically an open-topped railroad car used for transporting loose bulk materials, although general freight was also carried in the pre-container era.
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 station building was registered as a South Australian Heritage on 4 March 1993. [7] The station was converted into a historic railway museum. [8] There were proposals to extend the line beyond Morgan to Wentworth, and even as far as Hay to provide a more direct railway route to Sydney. [9] [10]
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 ...
The Adelaide rail network is a metropolitan suburban rail system serving the city of Adelaide, South Australia, Australia. It consists of 89 railway stations across 7 lines, which served a patronage of 15.6 million people over the year 2018-19. [2] Keolis Downer under contract from the Government of South Australia operates the Adelaide ...
National Railway Museum site in 2021. The National Railway Museum, Port Adelaide, South Australia is the largest under-cover railway museum in Australia. More than 100 major exhibits, mainly from the South Australian Railways (SAR) and Commonwealth Railways and their successor, Australian National, are displayed at its 3.5-hectare (8.6-acre) site.
In 1887, Victorian Railways met South Australian Railways at Serviceton, although both systems used broad gauge. [22] In 1919, electrification and development of the Melbourne suburban lines commenced. [23] Minor extensions to suburban lines have continued, but patronage fell as road transport gained favour from the 1960s.