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SOUTH AUSTRALIAN RAILWAYS

WEEKLY NOTICES

1923

Interim listing

1
  • Eudunda - passenger service - timetable alteration.
  • Willunga Line - loads between Hallett's Cove and Brighton.
  • Lowaldie - goods shed provided.
  • Rabila - new siding on South Line opened 15th January 1923.
2
  • Keith - Melbourne Express stopping arrangements.
  • Glanville - engine loads.
3
  • Wingamin - no longer permissive block station.
  • Bumbunga line (under construction) - commencing 22nd January, truckloads of salt will be accepted at Lochiel.
  • Port Lincoln station yard - signals.
  • A class engines - load will be the same as GE class engines.
4
  • Murray Bridge - Rabila. Working of push engines.
  • Long Plains line - load for mixed trains.
  • Bowmans - broad-gauge construction trains crossing over narrow-gauge line.
  • Broken Hill line - sleeping car attached to Broken Hill express daily.
  • Safety First - photographs of correct and incorrect shunting practice with reference to avoiding injury from buffers.
5
  • Nairne - signalling and interlocking.
  • Morgan - working of goods trains.
6
  • Memorandum to railway staff from W. A. Webb on the importance of courtesy.
  • Hawthorn crossing - operation of gong.
  • Penong line (under construction) - instructions.
  • Karoonda station - signalling.
  • Through booking (Between any two stations) of passengers now permitted through Adelaide station
  • Murray Bridge to Mount Lofty - push engines instructions.
  • Seacliff - warning gong at Wheatland street.
7
  • Superintendents - applications called for positions at Adelaide, Murray Bridge, Peterborough, Quorn, Naracoorte.
  • Bowmans - broad-gauge construction trains crossing over narrow-gauge line.
  • Willunga Line - Willunga train to stop at Oaklands.
  • Coonalpyn - up express must stop on specified days to pick up ducks.
  • Milang line - loads.
  • Eudunda - Sutherlands. Electric staff.
  • Railway gardens competition - grand champion Mount Gambier.
8
  • Victor Harbour line - load for express.
  • Morgan station - push engine.
  • Port Pirie - rates for sulphuric acid in tanks for Port Adelaide, for Electrolytic Zinc Company.
  • Catch points on broad-gauge lines - now all removed and replaced by cheese-knobs.
  • Mile End to Murray Bridge and Strathalbyn - train loads.
  • Fumigation (with a sulphur candle) of brakevans after carrying a corpse.
  • Port Line and Henley Beach Line - train loads.
  • Penong line (under construction)- mileages and names of sidings.
  • Through booking of passenger through Adelaide - special arrangements fro Glenelg lines, Willunga line, and Dry Creek loop line.
  • Tx class engines - loads for Pinnaroo and Murray Lands lines.
9
  • Mount Barker Junction - signals.
  • Gawler trains - load for Q class engines.
  • Grape traffic (broad gauge lines) - with special reference to Willunga line.
  • Safety First - photographs of 'telling a good yard during smoko', and placing of fire iron correctly with photo of RX and six-wheel tender.
  • Callington station - signals.
10
  • Chief Commissioner acknowledgement of favourable condition of permanent way on all sections.
  • Bowmans - broad-gauge construction trains crossing narrow-gauge line.
  • Murray Bridge to Mount Lofty - push engines.
11
  • Peebinga line - load for mixed trains.
  • Booking through Adelaide - examples with reference to Glenelg lines.
  • Cockburn line - starting signals.
  • Peebinga line - load for K class engines.
  • Aldgate - station signals.
12
  • Re-organisation of South Australian Railways with listing of abolished positions, and new positions and appointments.
  • South Line - loads of up goods trains from Ki Ki.
  • Hamley Bridge - push engine.
  • Peebinga line - loads.
  • Karkarook (Port Lincoln Line) goods platform provided.
13
  • Tailem Bend - timetable changes.
14
  • Thrington - new passing siding.
  • Spalding line - timetable alterations - now Limited Mixed between Riverton and Clare.
  • Sedan Line - train loads.
15
  • Port Lincoln - new jetty open.
  • Stockade - catchpoint installed.
  • Sedan line - timetable changes.
16
  • Trans-Australian Line - Naretha and Wynbring closed as accounting stations.
  • Sandy Creek - re-opened for ticket issue and parcels.
  • Oaklands - open for goods traffic from 1st May.
  • Hookina - Hawker - telephone block working instructions.
  • Mount Pleasant Line - engine loads increased.
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18
  • Glenelg (North Terrace Line) - gasholder working. Gasholder is filled to 10 atmospheres.
  • Nairne -electric signalling.
19
  • Morgan line - engine loads.
20
  • Islington running shed closed from 21st May.
  • Robertstown - train working.
  • Bowmans - broad-gauge construction trains crossing narrow-gauge.
21
  • Henley Beach line - caution re sand accumulating on line at Grange.
  • St. Leonard's yard - signals.
  • Mount Pleasant line - position of travelling stationmaster abolished.
  • Bowmans - signals.
  • Wig-Wag crossing signals - now at Canning Street, Port Adelaide.
  • Long Plains to Bowmans line opened 28th May. Stations, engine loads, timetables and fares.
22
  • Hamley Bridge - push engine
  • Bowmans - instructions for construction trains crossing narrow-gauge line cancelled.
  • Footwarmers - instructions.
  • Mount Barker Junction - signals and interlocking.
23
  • Snowtown line (under construction) - carriage of goods.
  • Mile end to Glanville - engine loads.
  • Henley Beach line - rates for goods.
  • Commercial advertising - Commissioners will now accept, and advertising agent appointed.
24
  • Wilmington line - timetable alteration for mixed train.
  • Gladstone line - timetable alteration
  • Mount Barker Junction - signal interlocking.
25
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26
  • Clare - 30 ton weighbridge installed.
  • Balaklava line - timetable alteration.
  • Jervois Bridge - warning gong removed.
  • Port Adelaide Dock station. - arrangements for train working (5 pages)
  • Glanville - arrangements for train working.
27
  • Pendleton Railway Cot (at Adelaide Children's Hospital) - arrangements now handled by the Claims agent.
  • Hamley Bridge - signals.
28
  • Truro line - stopping places and fares for motor car (Saurer Car) working the line.
  • Quorn - refreshment rooms closed 16th July.
  • Woodville station yard - signals.
29
  • Oakbank - triangle for turning engines.
30
  • Melbourne express - arrangements for roadside passengers by second division.
  • Eden - open for inwards goods traffic.
31
  • Glenelg lines - hours of ticket agencies.
  • Snowtown station yard - signals.
  • Cambrai - appointment of caretaker.
  • Engine bogie truck ('Crocodile') for transporting narrow-gauge engines over broad-gauge.
32
  • Quorn - refreshment rooms re-opened 1st August.
33
  • Thevenard line - sleeping car introduced 5th September.
  • Naracoorte - weighbridge is 10 ton and not 20 ton.
34
  • Rabila - trains may stop for passengers.
  • Miller's siding (Pinnaroo line) open for goods traffic 27th August.
35
  • Great Northern line - sleeping car will run between Quorn and Marree, commencing from Quorn on 30th August, and returning from Marree on 4th September, and fortnightly thereafter.
  • Helmsdale station (South Terrace to Glenelg line ) opened 1st September.
  • Bowmans to Snowtown line opened 3rd September - list of stations, engine loads, timetables and fares.
  • Moonta, Hamley Bridge and Wilmington timetable changes.
  • Oodnadatta line - timetable changes.
36
  • Mile End to Murray Bridge and Strathalbyn - engine loads for S class.
  • Angaston to Swan Reach motor mail service - changed.
  • Glenelg lines - arrangements for alternative routes for tickets.
  • Callington - signals and interlocking.
  • Snowtown - signals.
37
  • This weekly notice saw the commencement of 'efficiency slogans' that became a regular feature. this one was 'The public judge us largely by the punctuality of our trains. See what YOU can do to get ALL trains on time. We want 100%.'
  • Andrews - appointment of caretaker.
  • Melrose - combined rail and road tours.
  • Rabila - opened for parcel and goods traffic 3rd September.
  • Snowtown - most passenger traffic to northern destinations in now via Snowtown.
  • Safety First - caution re putting on injector - photograph of F class.
38
  • Snowtown line - traffic for Goyder, Nantawarra, and Bumbunga.
39
  • Port Dock station - instructions for A class engines.
  • Seaton Park - new station opened 17th September replaces old station.
  • Cheltenham Racecourse - train working.
  • Truro line - stopping places for motor car.
40
  • Port adelaide Dock station - 70 ton weighbridge.
  • Salisbury - Snowtown line - wheat not accepted for Wallaroo: can only be accepted for broad-gauge destination.
  • Callington - electric signalling.
  • Rendelsham - now station with resident accounting staff.
41
  • Loxton line - engine loads.
  • Melbourne - Adelaide. Fast goods service will commence 23rd October. Timetable.
42
  • Snowtown - 30 ton narrow-gauge weighbridge dismantled.
43
  • Quorn Division - siding between Beltana and Copley.
44
  • Victor Harbour line - express trains.
  • Beachport line - siding for Knight and Pritchard.
  • Bower - appointment of caretaker.
  • Oodnadatta line - timetables.
45
  • Brighton - engine loads.
  • Mount Lofty- push engines.
  • Snowtown line - wheat may now be consigned to Wallaroo.
46
  • Sedan line - timetable changes.
  • Paringa line - speed restrictions.
  • Yarcowie - signals
  • Miller's Siding (Pinnaroo line) correct mileage.
  • Melton - now resident accounting staff.
47
  • Paruna - appointment of caretaker.
  • Mount Lofty station - signals and interlocking.
  • Upper Sturt station - signals.
  • Safety First - firemen must see that engineman is clear of firebox before shovelling - photograph of Rx class cab.
  • Meribah - appointment of caretaker.
48
  • Quorn Line - automatic electric staff working
  • Burnda (Beachport line) open 19th November.
49
  • Quorn line - automatic electric staff working.
  • Warning gongs - Cavan Arms, Blackwood, Aldgate, Pekina Road, Woodside Road.
  • Bruce - automatic electric staff.
  • Water tanks on cars with water supply under air pressure.
50
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51
  • Beachport line - siding for Knight and Pritchard.
  • Mount Bryan - signals.
  • Suburban passenger service extended to Belair.
52
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