Eyre Peninsula Railways - Port Lincoln Division
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 30 ก.ย. 2024
- Let's explore the railways of the Eyre Peninsula!
The lines of the SAR's Port Lincoln Division, 832 km long at their maximum extent, were once the lifeline for much of the Eyre Peninsula.
This network is unique - because of its isolation from other networks and because the lines were mostly laid to encourage settlers to follow them. Most towns on the Eyre Peninsula exist because of the railways.
By the time the lines closed in 2019, grain was virtually the only freight task left for most of the railways. Only the gypsum train from Kevin to Thevenard remains.
I’m no expert but let’s dig a little deeper and fly a little higher as we explore the EP railways in 2023.
My research was greatly assisted by visiting the Port Lincoln Railway Museum, and by the book ‘Peninsula Pioneer Revisited’ by Peter Knife.
Visit the museum and purchase the book online here: www.eprps.org.au/
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I was salivating at all those untouched rails to explore. Not a rail trail in sight. Interesting that the whole Eyre Peninsula network was isolated from the rest of the country too.
Locals apparently referred to Adelaide as being on the 'mainland' - such was the state of connectivity back in the mid 20th century.
I see that Aurizon along with Viterra want to re activate the network there to haul grain again with Govt. assistance, we can only live in hope.
There's always hope, David. Thanks for watching.
Great video you certainly covered some miles in 4 days well done it took me three trip from the West and over 8 weeks to see only halve of the area . But i was lucky to see running trains
Lucky bugger... :)
South Australia is rich in one aspect of scrap rail millions of tons and 16:55 dollars worth lying around the state. Very very sad
NSW is the state for that. It takes an act of parliament to formally close a railway line. So they are just abandoned. There would be 1000s of km in NSW!
How good are the silos too at night 😍
Great video Mike. I really appreciate you adding some history into your videos.Its important to do this especially when presenting railway history. Your drone footage is always great.Thanks mate
It's my pleasure. I really do love getting out there!
Great video! I recently went to Darwin and I noticed how much Railway history was there. Darwin used to have a narrow gauge railway that stretched all the way into the CBD which got closed in 1976 and some of the line is still intact, as pure track, Rail-trails or just ballast and it is quite intriguing. Adelaide river is quite impressive as the new Standard gauge line runs parallel to the old line which includes a level crossing with both gauges just before Adelaide river’s railway museum which has quite a nice collection of railway rolling-stock and memorabilia. In fact I think most of the Sg line runs parallel to the narrow. It also runs parallel over the Adelaide river so you can see the new SG concrete bridge and the old narrow Steel bridge right next to it and it is really incredible. Plus the bridge is complete steel, no ballast, no sleepers, just bridge structure and rail. I didn’t go further but I’m guessing it would be the same through the whole line. AND I forgot to mention the whole line used metal sleepers but if you’re ever up North, I’d suggest you go check it out! Sorry for the billion word essay though 😂
Thank you for watching and commenting, Planetrainguy! Darwin is on the list! :)
good information on this railway mate sad to see railways disused
*big like👍Au👀full view always 🦘*
Thanks, Billy B!
I presume grain is still a major arg. Business on the peninsula but now all grain moved by truck? So are the silos still used or is grain trucked from farm to say port Lincoln direct? Seems like a less efficient method than grain trains from silo bases?
The grain still goes to silos and then to port but it's all by truck. 9:22 shows Cummins. I saw trucks loading grain from silos at Buckleboo, Kimba, and a few other places.
The state government ran the railway into the ground all over south Australia in the pocket of road transport what fool would close down the railway which can carry heavy load to port?
Thank you for watching, Robert.
Brilliant video Mark. You speak so wonderfully and passionately in your videos. Well done on a great explore 😍
Cheers Drew!
Mike 😉
Loved those railway 🛤 tracks you showed and loved those engines 🚉 too 🔥🔥🔥
Great video, thanks for taking the time to produce and share. Cheers.
Late summer every year we meet up with like minded folk for our Rusty Rails trip. Normally we alternate between the North and South Islands of NZ but this year we went to Tasmania and will start editing photos and video this weekend.
Enjoyed and will check out more on your channel.
Anthony
Thanks for watching! Will keep an eye out for the Tassie vid.
Another great video of history now gone. Pity some of these lines can't be done up as short tour lines.
Great video, you saw the 2300 class locos at thevenard just before they took over the gypsum train and the locos you saw running said train were withdrawn.
Also I’m surprised at how good the condition of most of the closed track is!
Great info, cheers Lachlan. Thanks for watching!
Fantastic footage and commentary, only found your video on the Malley lines last night, and watched this now, very impressed. Has inspired me to alter my up coming holiday plans to include exploring the Eyre Peninsula.
Thanks for watching! There's so much more out there on the EP that I just didn't have time for. Much more to it than I thought!
A GREAT video record of these lines. Thank you. Note “Wudinna” pronounced “wood na”
Thanks for watching. I KNEW I'd get at least one town pronounced wrong! 😂😂
IT WAS NICE MEETING YOU MATE I SERVED YOU AT THE CEDUNA BOTTLE SHOP
Best bottle shop ever.
I have to say on what a great shame on how nearly all of those railway lines are no longer used. Impressed with the working of your drone BTW
Thanks for watching, Stephen!
That`s another wonderful video from you, Mike.. and thanks for polishing my memory of Port Lincoln railyard and the museum which I visited many years ago.. Thanks again.. 😊
It's my pleasure! Thanks for watching mate.
Another fantastic video mate! Well done! And another case of poor planning and very poor management by the government! Those lines were allowed to fall into disrepair, the operator saved heaps and now some very valuable assets are lost! So sad.
Yep. The state government was outplayed by some very profitable private operators for sure. Thanks for watching, Ken.
if you look at how G&W work in USA, they happily receive government grants for upkeep of their right of way. No grant, no branch line rail service. This is how some short lines survive on 60000 ton per year of freight.
@@annyer262 yep it was stupid to expect them to be any different here
@@kenfowler1980 or any other USA branch line operator! All are dependent on grants to some extent! Sometimes the lines are owned by the counties and the leased to the railway.
@@annyer262 I just am a realist - private companies only have one interest and that’s to their shareholders. And in all honesty it’s what the various governments hope for, the asset becomes to worn out to fix so they don’t even have to shut it down, just operators can’t use it and eventually the taxpayer gives up and forgets about it without any bad publicity!
People will complain about the numbers of trucks and road damage but the various authorities can just throw their hands up in the air and say nothing we can do.
So eventually rural areas are depopulated and the great unwashed become easier to manage!
Call me a cynic but after 60 years I see a pattern!
A simple example is the Adelaide to Morgan railway that was going to be expanded into NSW, now a person with a long view would have seen the future benefit and the possibility of linking Mildura to Morgan to Crystal brook, giving Melbourne a direct link to Perth/ Darwin and Adelaide a direct link to Sydney (and Brisbane via inland rail). As a strategic asset for the movement of war material from the factories to the north and agricultural products from the various food bowls to the population centres, how amazing would that be?
But the truth is no political figure ( except maybe Tim Fischer) ever saw that potential.
Sad really that none sees what a strategic asset rail really is!
Cheers
Wonderfull Mike fabulous mate I'm very surprised at the condition of the tracks in many areas considering nothing has run for many years the condition of the right of way is very good
Thanks for watching, Max! Always good to have you on board.
Speaking about the Panfield line again MIKE I can remember 7 and 8 car trains using this line in the 1950s during shift changes at weapons research complex
Hi Mike
Sorry I missed the show I was 38,000 feet up on a return flight to the UK from Cyprus.
The trip to Israel was fascinating they have a very modern railway in the country 165 kph double decker trains however tight security on all transport is required with armed soldiers on the network the rail tunnels and underground stations are the deepest in the world they have to be as Israel is under constant attack by rockets from Lebanon and Gaza. The good thing is the iron dome shield network protects the whole country very few rockets ever get through it.
Needless to say larnaka airport in Cyprus and British RAF base at arokitiri in Cyprus are always busy with military flights even more since civil war has broken out in Sudan
Do look forward to next week's meet with all you guys .
Cheers Max
We're all good - no rockets so far. Catch you soon Max!