Re: Status of the Wallaroo line [SA}

["Ed" <ews3@nospicedham.ozemail.com.au>]

There are huge silos at Wallaroo, all very active together with the port.
Much of the grain is probably grown on locally on Yorkes Peninsula, an
exceptional wheat growing area I believe.
The railway line was standarised (dual guage? I can't remember) from
Snowtown approx. 1984, but has been disused for the last 5-10 years.
Sulphuric Acid from Port Pirie was a traffic that also used this line until
recently.
There is a preservation group that run trains (?) between Wallaroo and
Kadina.
All the line from Snowtown to Wallaroo was in situ in 1997, but I believe
the other local lines have been lifted (eg. to Moonta and towards Port
Wakefield).
BTW - Moonta, Wallaroo and Kadina are well worth a visit; lots of historic
buildings etc.

Anyone with better information?

Regards
Ed





Maurie Daly <mauried@tpg.com.au> wrote in message
mauried.510.0024A19C@tpg.com.au">news:mauried.510.0024A19C@tpg.com.au...
> Interesting article in July edition of Rail 2000 about this line ,(if
indeed
> there still is a line).
> Seems that wallaroo is a major grain centre generating in excess of 350000
> tonnes of grain annually which is all moved currently by road.
> Recently some 240000 tonnes of grain had to be moved by truck to Pt Giles
,
> some 118 kms away which required some 5000 trucks .
>
> Does anyone know what the status of this line is ,ie is any of it SG and
how
> far does it go,and who owns it ASR,SA Govt ,ARTC ?
>
> MD
>