THE TRAINS - Annual Reports Lists of Illustrations 1907-1962
The South Australian Railways Annual Reports are a valuable source of historical information. Most Annual Reports had photographic plates relevant to the developments of that time. This is a list of illustrations from 1907 to 1962. These Annual Reports may be accessed through State Records, Marion Road, Netley.
1907
- New Victorian and South Australian Railways joint stock cars.
- F class locomotive.
- T class locomotive.
- Various broad and narrow-gauge rolling stock.
1908
- Sleeps Hill viaducts.
- Watson's Gap bridge, near Victor Harbour.
- Hindmarsh River bridge.
- Wallaroo jetty.
- S class locomotive.
- N class locomotive rebuilt.
- Rx class locomotive.
- Yx class locomotive.
1909
- Moonta station.
- Outer Harbour - station master's residence.
- Coaling crane and S class locomotive.
- Z class locomotive.
- Y class goods wagon.
- X and T class wagons.
1910
- no plates.
1911
- Slab concrete cottages - Kapunda
- Fire station - Islington Works.
- South Para bridge
- Bridge - Port Adelaide
- Broad-gauge saloon car "Willochra".
- Z class hopper.
1912
- Loco running shed - Mile End
- Mile End water tank
- Steam crane.
- Signal bridge - Adelaide loop line.
- Mile End cabin.
- Suburban carriage
- Narrow-gauge carriage.
1913
- Mile End loco - barracks
- Keswick deviation
- Willunga railway works.
- Narrow-gauge car.
- Broad-gauge autocar.
- Ambulance car
- Bogie horse-box.
- T class narrow-gauge wagon
- Sheep and cattle vans.
1914
- Karoonda water softener.
- Ww open wagon.
- Bogie horse box.
- Onkaparinga bridge.
- Tailem Bend station.
1915
- Adelaide station 1885, 1905, 1915.
- Signals, Adelaide, Port and North junctions.
- Adelaide station - signals.
- Dry Creek station.
- Murray Bridge station.
1916
- Bridges, Grand Junction Road, Glanville.
- Port Adelaide - Commercial Road station.
- Sleeping car "Coonatto".
1917
- Bordertown station
- Salisbury station.
- Railway quarry - Sleep's Hill.
- Wilmington line - bridges
- Adelaide signal cabin.
- Balhannah station.
1918
- Spalding line - culvert.
- Long Plains station.
- Clare station.
- Mount Gambier station.
- Sleep's Hill tunnel.
- narrow-gauge car.
- Viaducts and new works.
- Sedan railway.
1919
- Last train over the viaducts.
- Oakbank station.
- Sleep's Hill tunnel.
- Balyarta station
- Spalding railway.
- S class locomotive with extended smokebox.
- Sedan railway.
- Yy wagon
- Y wagon.
- Scott's Creek bridge.
1920
- T , S and F class engines decorated for Royal Train.
- South line signalling.
1921
- no plates
1922
- Burra signals
- Motor quadricycle.
- Motor inspection car.
- Open wagon.
1923
- no plates
1924
- no plates
1925
- S.A.R. motor buses and trucks.
- Model 55 railcar.
- Inspection car.
- Gondola wagons.
- Pacific locomotive under construction.
- Box Car
- Caboose
- Islington workshops - new construction.
- Murray Bridge
- New Torrens bridge.
- Hamley Bridge.
- Mile End Roundhouse.
- Peterborough loco depot.
- Tailem Bend works.
1926
- Paringa bridge.
- Locomotives N, Rx, 500, 600, 700 classes.
- 107 ton crane
- Milk van and louvre van
- Road motor garage
- Road motor buses.
- Weed poison train
- Adelaide station
- Islington Works
- Victor Harbour station and turntable.
- Cottages - Peterborough.
- Auto water crane.
- Water tank - Peterborough.
- New bridges, Torrens, and Murray Bridge.
1927
- Royal train (locomotive 507) in Mount Lofty Ranges.
- Foundation stone - Adelaide station.
- Adelaide station under construction.
- Wallaroo jetty
- Flat car.
1928
- Adelaide station - inside and out.
- Gladstone - new station.
- Islington works from the air.
- Islington Works.
- Dining Car "Adelaide", inside and out.
- "Mount Lofty" sleeping car, inside and out.
- Melbourne Express with 500 class locomotive, Mile End.
1929
- Adelaide station from River Torrens.
- Adelaide station - interior.
- Signalling, Hamley Bridge and Riverton.
- Hansborough - strengthening bridge.
- 500 class locomotive with booster.
- 710 class locomotive with long cattle train.
- Cattle trucks
- Model 75 Railcar.
- Shunting tractor.
1930 to 1947
- no plates.
1948
- New "Overland" cars
- Motor body carrier.
- Container system.
- Cafeteria car - interior.
- 520 class locomotive on drop pit at Islington.
- L.C.L. cars
- Brake Press, Islington.
- Rail welding - Mile End.
- South East - broadening.
1949
- Coal tippler - Terowie
- Broken Hill ore train.
- "Overland" in the Adelaide Hills
- 350 class locomotive.
- Construction of "Overland" roomette cars
- Narrow-gauge remodelled car
1950
- Terowie transfer crane
- Port Pirie and Broken Hill - ore handling.
- Overland - twinette car.
- Fuel oil depot - Mile End.
- Twinette car construction - Islington Works.
- Naracoorte - opening of broad-gauge.
- South East - gauge conversion.
1951
- Barley - Port Adelaide.
- Ladies room of new "Overland" car.
- Mount Gambier to Naracoorte bus.
- Port Pirie - bulk locomotive fuel tanks.
- 750 class locomotive.
- 900 class locomotive under construction.
- Assembly of new "Overland" cars.
1952
- 900 class locomotive in Adelaide Hills.
- Train load of motor bodies.
- Interior of "Overland" BJ coach.
- Accident train
- South East gauge conversion.
1953
- R. H. Chapman - photograph.
- Kalangadoo - loading sheep.
- Sanding depot - Mile End.
- New 400 class (Beyer Garratt) locomotive.
- Sulphuric acid car.
- Sheep vans.
- Mount Gambier - gauge widening and opening.
- Diesel depot - Mile End.
1954
- 400 class (Beyer Garratt) locomotive
- Assembly of Bluebird rail car.
- Mount Gambier roundhouse.
- Car washing plant - Adelaide.
- Mile end - diesel servicing depot.
- Goolwa - centenary train.
1955
- Loading gypsum at Kevin, and Limestone at Penrice.
- Bluebird railcar.
- Suburban railcar.
- Nairne pyrites siding.
1956
- 930 class locomotive on goods train
- Bulk cement carrier
- Bulk grain silo.
- Warradale station
- 800 class diesel.
- Millicent station.
1957
- Mount Barker Junction station
- Nantawarra - silos.
- Beyer Garratt locomotive 409 on ore train.
- Loading pyrites - Nairne.
- Port Pirie - transhipping.
- 930 class locomotive.
1958
- Adelaide station
- Morgan - co-ordinated service.
- Container traffic
- Mile End and Port Adelaide depots.
- Rail flange lubricator.
- Wallaroo grain terminal.
1959
- Kingston - opening of broad-gauge
- Port Pirie - transhipping of copper concentrates
- Pooraka - lambs
- G.M.H. Elizabeth.
- Diesel fuel oil tank - Largs North
- Hydraulic rerailing gear with T class locomotive.
- Suburban railcar depot under construction.
- Railway laundry
- Track maintenance gear.
1960
- 800 class locomotive.
- New Womma station
- Road motor fleet.
- 830 class diesel
- 400 class railcar
- Hove passenger subway.
- Port Stanvac line.
1961
- Grain traffic - Wallaroo
- Port Pirie to Dry Creek piggyback traffic.
- Bulk cement hopper wagons.
- Keith - new station.
- Port Stanvac railway.
- Steel brakevan.
- Flexivan
- Adelaide railcar depot.
- Freeling - new station
- "Santa" special.
1962
- Locomotive 955 on fast Melbourne freight.
- Port Pirie - transhipping.
- Adelaide station scenes.
- Flexivan.
- Locomotive 850, shunting Thevenard.
- Sulphuric acid containers
- Louvre vans with high speed bogies.
- Islington Works - scenes.
- Track and signal maintenance.


