Peebinga railway line

Peebinga railway line
Overview
Status	Closed
Locale	Murray Mallee
Coordinates	34°56′5″S 140°54′17″E
Termini	Karoonda; Peebinga
Continues from	Barmera line
Service
System	South Australian Railways
Operator(s)	South Australian Railways; Australian National
History
Opened	18 December 1914
Closed	7 December 1990
Technical
Line length	106.2 km (66.0 mi)
Track gauge	1,600 mm (5 ft 3 in)
Route map

The Peebinga railway line was a railway line on the South Australian Railways network. It opened on 28 December 1914 from a junction with the Barmera line at Karoonda and ran generally eastward through the Murray Mallee terminating at Peebinga, two kilometres from the Victorian state border.[1] It closed on 7 December 1990.[2][3]

Route

The railway ran easterly from Karoonda then north-easterly, serving to open up for agriculture the lands between the Pinnaroo line which had opened in 1906 and the Barmera line which was still under construction when approval was granted for the Peebinga line. The Peebinga line was 106.2 kilometres (66.0 mi) long and construction estimated to cost £207,000 plus £56,690 for rolling stock. The net operating loss was forecast as £11,804 per annum however this was considered acceptable for making agriculture possible on 621,000 acres (2,510 km²) of previously undeveloped land.[1]

Towns were established along the route with railway stations and schools however none of these have survived as towns.[4]

Nunkeri
Yurgo
Marama (1930 hall remains on Karoonda-Lameroo road)[5]
Kulkami (bulk grain silos on Karoonda-Lameroo road)
Mulpata
Wirha (adjacent to Billiat Road)
Gurrai (bulk grain silos)
Karte
Kringin (adjacent to Peebinga Conservation Park)
Mootatunga (adjacent to Peebinga Conservation Park, 2.5 kilometres (1.6 mi) west of Browns Well Highway)
Peebinga (bulk grain silos 5 km east of Browns Well Highway)

Possible extension

Consideration was given in 1927/28 to a suggestion of extending the line from Peebinga across the state border into Victoria and northward to Morkalla to connect with what became the Victorian Railways' Morkalla line which at that time terminated at Meringur.[6]

References

"Railway Extension". The Register. Adelaide: National Library of Australia. 21 December 1912. p. 7. Retrieved 29 June 2014.
Quinlan, Howard; Newland, John (2000). Australian Railway Routes 1854 - 2000. Redfern: Australian Railway Historical Society. p. 55. ISBN 0 909650 49 7.
Bromby, Robin (2006). Ghost Railways of Australia. Sydney: Lothan Books. pp. 74–75. ISBN 0-7344-0923-0.
"Property Location Browser (Government Towns layer)". Government of South Australia. Archived from the original on 12 October 2016. Retrieved 8 October 2014.
Google (February 2010). "Street View of Marama Hall" (Map). Google Maps. Google. Retrieved 8 October 2014.
"The Man on the Land". The Argus. Melbourne: National Library of Australia. 24 August 1928. p. 16. Retrieved 16 January 2015.

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[approval-1] "Railway Extension". The Register. Adelaide: National Library of Australia. 21 December 1912. p. 7. Retrieved 29 June 2014.

[2] Quinlan, Howard; Newland, John (2000). Australian Railway Routes 1854 - 2000. Redfern: Australian Railway Historical Society. p. 55. ISBN 0 909650 49 7.

[3] Bromby, Robin (2006). Ghost Railways of Australia. Sydney: Lothan Books. pp. 74–75. ISBN 0-7344-0923-0.

[4] "Property Location Browser (Government Towns layer)". Government of South Australia. Archived from the original on 12 October 2016. Retrieved 8 October 2014.

[5] Google (February 2010). "Street View of Marama Hall" (Map). Google Maps. Google. Retrieved 8 October 2014.

[6] "The Man on the Land". The Argus. Melbourne: National Library of Australia. 24 August 1928. p. 16. Retrieved 16 January 2015.