Port Pirie to Broken Hill (Standard Guage)
This section contains information about the Port Pirie to Broken Hill Standard Guage line.
Note: Port Pirie and Coonamia have been included at the end of the listing as a series of locations, not all trains would have operated through different junctions depending on final destination.
Broken Hill 531.5 km -- Broken Hill 394.5 km
1.7.1979 | Broken Hill 531.5 km (distance from Adelaide) - Resthouse for trainmen - engine stabling depot - Fuel station - Turntable - carriage watering ANR WTT 1.7.1979 |
6.10.1991 | Broken Hill - turntable 22.9m [WWT Admt 6.10.1991] |
23.3.1992 | Broken Hill 394.5 km (distance from Port Pirie) [WWT Admt 23.3.1992] |
Kanandah Siding 526.5 km -- Kanandah Siding 390 km
Pinnacle Mines Siding 377.6 km
Thackaringa 500 km -- Thackaringa 363.5 km
NSW/SA Border 346.0 km
- | location of the New South Wales/South Australian border |
Cockburn 482.5 km -- Cockburn 345.5 km
Mingary 458 km -- Mingary 321 km
Olary 414.5 km -- Olary 277 km
Mannahill 377.5 km -- Mannahill 239.5 km
Yunta 334 km -- Yunta 196 km
Paratoo 306.5 km -- Paratoo 168 km
Hillgrange 285 km -- Hillgrange 146 km
Peterborough 248 km (154 m 11 ch) -- Peterborough 109.5 km
1923 | On "Chief Engineer For Railways Map Showing Lines of Railways in South Australia" - 154 m 11 ch |
1.7.1979 | Peterborough 248 km (distance from Adelaide) - Resthouse for trainmen - engine stabling depot - Fuel station - Turntable - Refreshment room - Crossing loop ANR WTT 1.7.1979 |
6.10.1991 | Peterborough - turntable 25.9m [WWT Admt 6.10.1991] |
23.3.1992 | Peterborough 109.5 km (distance from Port Pirie) [WWT Admt 23.3.1992] |
Yongala 258.5 km -- Yongala 98.5 km
Jamestown 283.5 km -- Jamestown 74 km
Caltowie 297.5 km -- Caltowie 60 km
Gladstone 219.5 km -- Gladstone Station 313.5 km -- Gladstone Station 44 km
1923 | On "Chief Engineer For Railways Map Showing Lines of Railways in South Australia" - 194 m via Terowie and 136.25M via Blyth |
1.7.1979 | Gladstone 219.5 km (Distance from Adelaide via Blyth) - Gladstone Station 313.5 km (Distance from Adelaide via Peterborough) - Resthouse for trainmen - Fuel station - Turntable - ANR WTT 1.7.1979 |
23.3.1992 | Gladstone Station 44 km (distance from Port Pirie) [WWT Admt 23.3.1992] |
Gladstone Xing Loop 314.5 km -- Gladstone Xing Loop 43 km
1.7.1979 | Gladstone Xing Loop 314.5 km (distance from Adelaide) - Crossing Loop 1006 m ANR WTT 1.7.1979 |
23.3.1992 | Gladstone Xing Loop 43 km (distance from Port Pirie) - crossing loop 979 m [WWT Admt 23.3.1992] |
Crystal Brook 334.5 km -- Crystal Brook 197.5 km -- Crystal Brook 22.5 km
30.6.1950 | On "Chief Engineer For Railways Map Showing Lines of Railways in South Australia". Original distances given as 150.5 m via Blyth, and 209.25 M via Terowie |
1.7.1979 | Crystal Brook 334.5 km - Attended - Crossing loop 1006 m - ANR WTT 1.7.1979 |
28.10.1990 | Crystal Brook 197.5 km - crossing loop 968 m [WWT Admt 28.10.1990] |
23.3.1992 | Crystal Brook 22.5 km (distance from Port Pirie) - crossing loop 964 m [WWT Admt 23.3.1992] |
Warnertown 348 km
1923 | 106 m - On "Chief Engineer For Railways Map Showing Lines of Railways in South Australia" |
1.7.1979 | Warnertown 348 km - Unattended - Crossing loop 1006 m - ANR WTT 1.7.1979 |
Coonamia 359.5 km -- Coonamia 225 km
12.1.1970 | Coonamia West Junction - Yard Connection opened (Broken Hill Line open) to 18/7/70.[WN 27/70] |
9.4.1978 | Coonamia North Junction - Opened [WN 14/78] |
9.4.1978 | Coonamia East Junction - Opened.[WN 14/78] |
28.10.1990 | Coonamia 359.5 km [WWT Admt 28.10.1990] |
23.3.1992 | Coonamia Siding (225 km from Adelaide) [WWT Admt 23.3.1992] |
4.8.1993 | Coonamia West Junction - closed [SN 30/93] |
Solomontown -- Port Pirie Junction (134.24 m) -- Port Pirie Junction (0 m)
1923 | On "Chief Engineer For Railways Map Showing Lines of Railways in South Australia" as "Solomontown" |
23.7.1937 | Opened - loop 1530 ft., sidings 18,440 ft[annual report] |
26.7.1937 | Extension of line from Port Augusta to Port Pirie officially opened. |
- | Both the name "Solomontown" and "Port Pirie Junction" appears to be used interchangeably |
30.6.1937 | Drawer locks remain at Port Augusta leg of Triangle & Stockyards ("Prairie") 0 m 50 c[WGC 4/61] |
5.11.1967 | Train order Port Pirie Junction - Stirling North [WN 44/67] |
12.11.1967 | Port Pirie Junction Closed & Port Pirie Opened. Mileage Difference 1 m 0 c [WN 44/67] |
Port Pirie - Ellen Street (135.65 m)
Port Pirie - Mary Elie Street 262.5 km (0 m) -- Port Pirie 362.5 km
12.11.1967 | Port Pirie Junction Closed & Port Pirie Opened. Mileage Difference 1 m 0 c [WN 44/67] |
12.1.1970 | Standard Gauge to Broken Hill open [SAR WN50/69] |
1.7.1979 | Port Pirie 262.5 km (from Adelaide) - Resthouse for trainmen - Engine stabling depot - Fuel station - Turntable - - Refreshment room - Crossing loop - Carriage watering ANR WTT 1.7.1979 |
28.10.1990 | Port Pirie 362.5 km [WWT Admt 28.10.1990] |
6.10.1991 | Port Pirie - turntable 25.9m [WWT Admt 6.10.1991] |