Opened 18 Nov 1907 (42 miles / 67.5 km)
Miles | Km | Facilities | Location | Remarks |
0 | 0 | COW | Port Lincoln |
Headquarters of the Port Lincoln Division.
Large yard, extensive port facilities. Major workshops (since 1929). Refreshment stall operated from mid-1950s for about a decade. |
1 | 1.5 | One Mile Siding |
Opened around 1919 for SA Wheat Harvest Board.
Closed Mar 1922. |
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1.5 | 2.5 | Barley Siding | Opened 1953-54.
Closed 12 Jun 1974. |
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1.75 | 3 | (Wheat Siding)
Ravendale |
Opened 20 Aug 1956 as Wheat Siding.
Renamed Ravendale 1972. Closed 1988. |
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2 | 3 |
(Eyre Peninsula Co-operation Ltd Siding)
(Govt Produce Dept Siding) Samcor Siding |
Opened 17 Mar 1924 as Eyre Peninsula Co-Op Siding.
Renamed GPD Siding 1 Apr 1929. Renamed Samcor Siding 5 Oct 1978. Closed 22 Sep 1986. |
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3.25 | 5.25 | Coffin Bay Junction (proposed) | Site of junction for proposed SAR branch line to Coffin Bay sand mine, 1961. BHP ultimately built their own line from Proper Bay to the mine. | |
4 | 6.5 | Four Mile Quarry Siding |
Opened 1926. Skips used on 2'0" gauge double track inclined way, cable haulage, to two quarry areas. Quarry closed by 1934. |
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5 | 8 | (Five Mile Siding) Grantham |
Opened as Five Mile Siding for Australian Wheat Board, 1942.
Land and sidings transferred from AWB to SAR, 1949. Renamed Grantham 1972/1973. Weigh-in-motion weighbridge installed Dec 2002. |
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7.75 | 12.5 | Duck Ponds |
Opened 16 Jan 1911.
Closed 22 Sep 1986. |
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12.5 | 20 | W | Coomunga Ballast Siding | Opened c.1926, gone by 1960, |
13.25 | 21.5 | W | Coomunga | |
15.5 | 25 | W | - | Emergency water supply |
18.75 | 30 | Pearlah | Known as Venning's during construction of line.
Closed 1 Apr 1980. |
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23.5 | 38 | Y | Wanilla | Load reducing station for 'up' trains.
'Shorts' worked to here from Port Lincoln. |
27.25 | 44 | Warunda | Closed 1 Aug 1973 | |
31.75 | 51 | (Mortlock) Edillilie |
Opened as Mortlock.
Renamed Edillilie, Oct 1908. Refreshment stall operated circa 1913-1933. |
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36.5 | 59 | Pillana |
Opened 9 Mar 1908.
Closed 1 Apr 1980. |
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42 | 67.5 | CJWY | Cummins |
Site of major loco depot and workshops, 1915-1929.
Turntable installed 1925, relocated to Mount Hill 1943. Refreshment kiosk operated early 1920s - 1955. View Cummins yard diagrams |
Explanation of code letters used in the 'Facilities' column:
C - loco coal J - junction station O - turntable W - loco water Y - triangle (wye)