I arrived in Adelaide in 1987. That’s probably why I don’t remember seeing a railway line down Semaphore Road. It’s only been closed since 1978 but today you’d never know Semaphore had a busy railway line running down the main street with three stations. One station is still there today….
There was once a short lived branch line in the Riverland that was completed but never used. The Chowilla (pronounced Chowla) line was built in the 1960s in preparation for the Chowilla Dam project in South Australia. Information is hard to come by so I’ll share what I have found…
The 2022/2023 River Murray flood event in South Australia is surpassed only by the 1931 and 1956 floods. RIVER MURRAY FLOODS FAST FACTS: I travelled the length of the river in South Australia in December 2022 and January 2023 from the Victorian border to Murray Bridge to capture this once…
Waikerie, Loxton, Moorook, Barmera, Berri, Glossop, Renmark, and Paringa. All these riverland towns were once connected to Adelaide by rail, but you wouldn’t know it now. Let’s brush up on some history first before we get to the YouTube video at the end. Before European settlement, the First Peoples of…
We’re going to explore the Hoyleton to Port Wakefield railway line. This section of railway line is significant because the bit we’re looking at eventually became part of two important South Australian railway lines. There’s a lot that’s confusing about the web of mid-north railway lines – hopefully this post…