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Re: Tunnels

Neil Waller <waller@iweb.net.au> wrote:

> In SA the tunnels are (or were)
> 
> Sleeps Hill no 1 - Single track
> Sleeps Hill no 2 - Single track
> 
> these were replaced by the current double track Sleeps Hill tunnel in
> 1919 or thereabouts.
> 
Is that just because they were single track? Or was there some other
reason?

> Shepherds Hill (2 single track tunnels)
> 
> Blackwood (opened out to a large cutting)
> 
> Pinera (opened out to a large cutting)
> 
> National Park (Single track)
> Long Gully (Single track)
> Upper Sturt (Single Track)
> Yantaringa (single track)
> Murray Bridge (single track - built by "cut-and-cover" method)
> 
> Dowds Hill
> 
> And across King William Road Adelaide on the Exhibition Branch (around
> the back of Government House) (but I am open to correction here).
> 
How far did that extend?

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