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SOUTH AUSTRALIAN RAILWAYS

WEEKLY NOTICES

1920

Interim listing

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  • Mitcham - Sleep's Hill. Crossing gong for Upper Belair Road.
  • Railway Gardens Competition - Championship prize to Strathalbyn.
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  • Nuriootpa - starting down trains
5
  • Abattoirs - now accounting station for Northfield and Stockade.
  • Adelaide yard and junction -signal instruction in event of failure of electric signals.
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  • Morgan - retention of spare coach.
  • Gawler Tramway - shunting charge.
  • Quorn line - loads for T class and Z class engines.
7
  • Great Northern Line - restrictions on shunting four-wheeled vehicles around triangles.
  • Reduction in services on most lines due to Marine Engineer's strike.
  • Port Adelaide - 15 ton weighbridge.
  • Explosion of meteor on Christmas Day, over Penshurst, Victoria. All station masters asked to report any unusual sound as 'information is required to elucidate some unsolved difficulties regarding the propagation of sound waves through the atmosphere'.
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  • 'Men Only' compartments on South Line trains.
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  • Caltowie - fire at station.
  • Safety First - photographs of four-wheeled trucks and Rx class engine.
11
  • Port Line trains - certain trains to have first-class carriages.
12
  • Postal employees travelling by goods train.
  • Osborne - trains stopping for workmen.
  • Sleeping Cars , and AE, BE, CE brakes, not to work curve leading to Althorpe Place (Glenelg Line), but may work over Henley Beach line.
  • Meteorite explosion over Penshurst, Victoria. Many station masters have not yet sent the required information.
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  • Monarto South Station - temporary hand working due to alterations to interlocking.
  • Children not to occupy smoking compartments.
  • Semaphore station - signal alterations.
  • Lock and Block working - South Line.
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  • Middle Brighton - ticket agency.
  • Keswick Showgrounds - shunting from Mile End Goods Yard.
  • Peebinga line - schedule.
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  • Glenelg line - Gasholder working.
  • 'Men Only' compartment on specified country passenger services.
  • Pinnaroo - Ouyen timetable alteration.
16
  • Middle Brighton - parcel traffic only for other Willunga-line stations.
  • Trans - Australian Line - new timetable between Perth and Melbourne.
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  • Passengers travelling on outside platforms of suburban carriages must not have their legs hanging down, and practice must be stopped.
  • Non-air trucks must not be used on Willunga line.
18
  • Lock and Block working - Port Adelaide line and North line.
19
  • Glass tumblers in carriages discontinued - too many broken or stolen.
  • Melbourne Express - stops in Victoria.
20
  • Pinnaroo - weighbridge not strong enough for Victorian DD engines.
  • Cooke's Plains - new crossing siding.
  • Trans - Australian Line - stations.
  • South line - ballast siding at 157.5 miles disconnected.
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  • Melbourne Express - second division up express may stop between Mount Barker Junction and Adelaide.
23
  • Hove -new name for Middle Brighton.
  • Trans - Australian Railway - alterations to timetable and meal charges.
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  • Cockburn line - ballast siding near Yunta.
  • Henley Beach line - Winter's Absolute Block working, and temporary block cabin at Golf Links.
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  • Draper - stop signal for passengers.
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  • Henley Beach line - Winter's Block working deferred.
  • Compton - Mount Gambier - permissive block working.
  • Blackwood crossing - electric warning gong.
  • Interstate parcel rates with listing of all South Australian stations.
  • Interstate passenger fares.
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  • Westinghouse air brake - recent collision due to reliance solely on air brake for stationary train.
  • Peebinga - trains run to Gurrai every Thursday, to Peebinga every alternate Thursday.
  • Oaklands - ticket agency.
  • Oaklands - stock siding - method of operation.
  • Henley Beach line - Winter's Block working.
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  • Peebinga Line - goods must reach Karoonda in time for infrequent service.
  • Noarlunga - Coach service to Normanville via Aldinga.
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  • Afghan passengers will not be allowed to travel by train from Port Augusta.
  • Mount Bryan - weighbridge dismantled.
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  • Murray Bridge - carriage doors to be locked at one end to prevent passengers of Melbourne Express alighting before train has stopped.
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  • Afghan passengers only barred from East - West line. May travel on Oodnadatta line.
  • Aldgate - coach service to Macclesfield via Mylor.
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  • Letter of thanks to Railways Commissioner re efficiency of railway requirements for recent visit of H.R.H The Prince Of Wales.
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  • Pigeons for Trans - Australian line - maximum 16 crates.
  • Trans - Australian line - dogs will not be carried in brakevans of passenger trains.
  • South Line - engine loads for Rx and N classes Monarto South - Murray Bridge.
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  • Wilmington line - Yx class engine may now work line.
  • Karcultaby (between Minnipa and Poochera) opened.
  • Clapham - new platforms replace old wooden platforms.
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  • Mails carried by train - including instructions re Travelling Post Office, and list of stations.
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  • F class engines - instruction re silencer pipe.
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  • Clarence Park - ticket agency opened.
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  • Wilmington line - timetable alteration.
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  • Walloway - track arrangements.
  • Mile End Goods Yard - North cabin - signalling
  • Mount Gambier line - load for Wx class engines.
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  • Wilmington line station - mails.
  • Carrieton - Terowie - daily T.P.O.
  • A class engines - Port Adelaide shunting loads.
  • Suggestions and Inventions Committee established.
41
  • Blythwood - opening of station.
  • Abattoirs trains must be hauled (not pushed) from Dry Creek.
  • Safety First - photographs of workshop practices.
42
  • S class engines - load for two engines between Murray Bridge and Serviceton.
  • Pinnaroo line - double engine loads for D class and H class engines.
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  • Goolwa - weekend tours.
  • Victor Harbour line timetable changes.
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  • Clare - 5 ton crane (ex stockport) installed.
  • Cooke's Plains - signal shifted.
  • Blind people my travel free in suburban area.
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  • Hamley Bridge - station yard arrangements.
  • Glenelg (South Terrace) line - instructions for working Morphettville on race days.
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  • Taperoo - new name for Silicate siding.
  • Cooke's Plains - signal shifted.
  • Torrens Park - new name for Blythwood station.
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  • Broken Hill Express - now running five days a week.
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  • Boucaut siding - extended.
  • Glenelg (South Terrace) Line - seasons tickets cannot be used over North Terrace line.
  • Mount Barker Junction to Murray Bridge - double engine working.
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  • Wig-wag signals.
  • Murray Bridge - push engine arrangements for H class engine working.
  • Clare - Spalding line - traffic accepted to and from Calcannia (5 miles from Clare).
51
  • Thevenard line. - Y class engines may work.
  • Hove - ticket agency re-opened.
  • Cooke's Plains - signals and interlocking.
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  • Chandos - siding extended.