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WEEKLY NOTICES

1919

Interim listing

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  • Mount Pleasant Line. Charlestown, 3 ton crane installed.
  • Mount Pleasant Triangle completed 24 December 1918.
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  • Rx class with six wheel tender attaching travelling tank at Callington.
  • Clare line. Auburn and Clare do not have semaphore signals.
  • Robertstown, 24 ton weighbridge.
  • War Placards to be removed from all railway stations.
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  • Keswick. Showgrounds Junction, signals, 'lock and block' working.
  • Outer Harbour, signalling arrangements.
  • Loads for locomotives between Port Adelaide and Glanville, via Commercial Road.
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  • Influenza epidemic. Lines to Broken Hill, Melbourne, Trans Australian, Pinnaroo border, and Mount Gambier border. Carriage windows must be kept open, and arrangements for suspicious cases.
  • Opening of Jervois Bridge, Port Adelaide.
  • Ambulance cars.
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  • Cancellation of train services, North and South Lines. (influenza epidemic)
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  • Murray Bridge, points at wharf and goods yard.
  • Safety First. Photographs of correct and incorrect work practices (however by modern standards we note some short comings such as the absence of safety glasses!)
  • Glanville, trains must not enter Semaphore line when shunting. Emergency arrangements with signalman at Exeter.
  • Influenza epidemic, Resumption of Pinnaroo border traffic.
  • Tailem Bend. Interlocking of switches.
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  • Western System. Train loads with assisting engines, Y class. Push engine from Hamley Bridge, and between South Hummocks and Paskeville.
  • Workmen's Compensation, rate of payment.
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  • Towels lost from lavatory carriages.
  • Riverton - Clare line, running times. and engine loads.
  • Wines and Spirits in second-hand casks, difficulty of obtaining new casks.
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  • Mantung (Waikerie Line) Permissive Block book.
  • Influenza epidemic. Train services resumed Trans Australian Line and Broken Hill.
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  • Influenza epidemic. Quarantine arrangements for travel to Melbourne.
  • Shunting at Hamley Bridge.
14
  • Oakbank station yard signals
  • Glenelg line. St Leonards. change of signal re Miller's Corner.
  • Cockburn Line. Ucolta station yard. Annett's Lock and Key
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  • Passenger train loads. Mount Lofty to Adelaide.
  • Deviation of main line between Sleep's Hill and Eden.
  • Rx class engines 211 and 216. Boiler pressure reduced, and lower engine loads.
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  • Quarantine, East - West passenger traffic.
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  • Carriages 127, 130, and 133 restricted to Islington Workmen's trains.
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  • Influenza epidemic. Passenger traffic, Western Australia and Broken Hill. Adelaide and Port Pirie.
19
  • Cooke's Plains open for parcel traffic.
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  • South Terrace Station, introduction of interlocking.
  • Stockport and Tarlee. Three-position upper quadrant electric signals.
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  • Stockport and Tarlee. Electric signals operational 5th June.
  • Influenza epidemic and quarantine. Travel arrangements.
  • Nuriootpa - Truro. Engine loads.
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  • 5 ton crane at Waikerie.
  • Caretaker at Watervale.
  • Hamley Bridge. Bank engine working and Bank engine key. Loads for Y class engines to Stockyard Creek and Balaklava.
  • Adelaide and Broken Hill Express. Timetable.
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  • Reduction of train services due to shortage of coal. Trains to Mt Gambier, Pinnaroo, Waikerie, Kingston,Serviceton, Kadina - Brinkworth, Wilmington, Peterborough - Quorn, Eudunda, Mount Pleasant, Aldgate, Milang, Truro, Angaston, Gawler. Metropolitan area - no trains after 10.30 pm, and all Sunday trains cancelled.
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  • Influenza epidemic - quarantine arrangements partially withdrawn.
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  • Exchanging electric staffs. Instructions, and with photograph with F class locomotive.
  • Oodnadatta train service. Dates.
  • Further reductions in train services due to coal shortage. Services to Peterborough, Gawler, Abattoirs and Northfield, Pinnaroo, Strathalbyn, Victor Harbour, Milang, Blackwood. Willunga, Semaphore, Largs, Outer Harbour, Henley Beach, Brighton Glenelg.
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  • Mount Gambier - 75 ft. turntable.
  • Sale of tickets at Watervale.
  • Sale of tickets at Swansea.
  • East - West express to stop at Orroroo.
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  • Poultry trespassing in railway yards.
  • Adelaide Railway telegraph office closed on Sundays.
  • Oodnadatta train service. Dates.
  • Quarantine arrangements. Trans Australian Line.
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  • Engine loads - Truro line
  • Further reductions of train services. Terowie, Broken Hill, Port Pirie, Port Pirie - Peterborough, Moonta, Clare, Milang, Victor Harbour, Murray Bridge, Aldgate. Sleeping Car service discontinued between Adelaide and Melbourne.
  • Moonta Tramway fares
  • Gawler Tramway fares
  • General parcel rates
  • Cream rates
  • Additional parcel rate applicable on the Oodnadatta line.
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  • 'Up' special trains, Hookina and Hawker.
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  • 'Wandana' sleeping car, Eyre Peninsula, sleeping berth charge.
  • Parcel traffic for Hampden.
  • Opening of double line, Eden and Sleeps HIll 11th August, 1919.
  • Interstate fare tables.
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  • Influenza epidemic - withdrawal of restrictions.
  • Charlestown (Mount Pleasant line) now to be called Charleston
  • Urrabirra (Peebinga Line). Name changed to Nelsonville.
  • Truro line. Engine loads.
  • Perth Express - timetable changes
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  • Reinstatement of train services. Melbourne, Victor Harbour, Pinnaroo, Port Pirie, Moonta, Broken Hill, Metropolitan lines.
35
  • Footwarmers discontinued from Adelaide - Melbourne express.
  • Swansea. Ticket agency closed.
  • Resumption of train services. South line, North line, South Eastern, Port Augusta, Kingston.
  • Broken Hill - Menindie line now open for traffic.
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  • Engine Loads, T class Gumbowie - Terowie subject to Westinghouse brakes in load.
  • 'Lock and block' working, South Line, Mile End Junction, Keswick Junction, and Showgrounds Junction, Goodwood, Unley Park, Mitcham, Sleeps Hill.
  • Safety First with photographs. 'Rusty iron brings about blood poisoning'. Right and wrong way to lift heavy iron. 'Shunter has left arm off at elbow'.
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  • Mitcham Station Yard. Signals.
  • Quarantine Restrictions removed.
  • Resumption of train services on most lines.
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  • Mileages - Port Lincoln Line.
  • Electric lighting - interstate sleeping cars.
  • Wig Wag crossing signals. On 1st October brought into operation between Blackwood and Belair, and on the Port Road crossing of the Henley Beach line.
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  • Couplings on end-loading carriages. Highly dangerous to leave the knob of the screw coupling 'up in the air'.
  • Monarto South and Sedan Line open 13th October . Engine loads, speed limits and timetable.
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  • Engine loads - Mount Pleasant Line
  • Botanic Gardens - plants available for station gardens.
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  • Rule 471 - drivers to look back to ensure that they have the whole of the train behind the engine.
  • Engine headlights - broad gauge.
  • Sleep's Hill Yard - temporary alterations to signals and interlocking.
43
  • Ballast siding 157.5 miles south. (Between Keith and Wirrega).
  • Mundoora and Port Broughton mails. Motor mail service to commence between Brinkworth and Mundoora 1st January 1920. Will also service Keilli, Collinsfield, Red Hill, Koolunga.
  • Water bags on narrow-gauge passenger trains. Also canvas canteens on Pinnaroo and Murray Lands lines.
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  • Pinnaroo line load for H class and J class engines.
  • Gawler station yard signals.
  • Largs station yard signals.
  • Mitcham, Sleeps Hill, and Eden - three position upper quadrant electric signals.
45
  • Eudunda - overhead tank being connected to the water main from the Warren Reservoir.
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  • Appamurra - 3 ton crane.
  • Hammond - station yard signals.
  • Edwardstown - station yard signals.
  • Ambulance Car - Commissioner does not provide bed linen and blankets.
  • Arrangements for refrigerated vans for the summer.
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  • Eyre's Peninsula line - Permissive Block working.
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  • Ration sheep for permanent way gangs, Great Northern Line, not available south of Hookina.
  • Pinnaroo Line - loads for D class and H class engines.
  • Finniss Station - passenger siding lengthened.
  • Liquorice root will now be carried at class 'A' rate and conditions.
  • Wallaroo Goods Yard
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  • Load of down Melbourne Express not to exceed eight 12-wheeled vehicles at Serviceton, due to extra 'AE' car at Dimboola, and dining car at Ararat.
  • Terowie and Quorn. Permission granted for 'T' and 'Z' class engines to work. Speed limits, and restrictions over the Black Rock bridge.
  • Edwardstown station yard - signals.
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  • Eyre's Peninsula Line. Permissive Block Working.
  • Karoonda - Peebinga Line, fortnightly mixed service.
  • Riverton - Clare line speed limits.
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