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SOUTH AUSTRALIAN RAILWAYS

WEEKLY NOTICES

1926

Interim listing

1
  • Adelaide yard - signalling
  • Quorn station - to be treated as a 'foreign' station for accounting from 1st January
  • Buckleboo line (Under construction)- freight accepted
  • Stone Hut - station hours.
  • Long Plains - triangle deleted
  • Beachport passenger service - timetable.
  • Quorn - Marree. Sleeping berths only for first class passengers.
  • Port Augusta - Kalgoorlie. Through booking of parcels etc, with complete list of all stations and sidings.
  • Murray Bridge - speed limits over bridge.
  • Dry Creek to Smithfield - three position signalling.
2
  • Mount Gambier line - sleeping car 'Morambro' temporarily withdrawn.
  • Melton - station hours.
3
  • Commonwealth rolling stock (narrow gauge).
  • Oodnadatta line - livestock tares increased, with list of all stations.
  • Port Pirie and Crystal Brook - combined road and rail service to Redhill commencing 1st February.
  • Port Elliot - signals
  • Black Swamp - materials for new bridge.
  • Draper (Outer Harbour line) - warning gong
  • Seven Hills - warning gong on MIntaro Road crossing.
  • Smithfield to Gawler - three position signalling.
  • Mile End Junction - three position signalling.
4
  • Murray Bridge station - signals
  • Melbourne Express - ticket collection arrangements.
5
  • Oodnadatta line - livestock rates and list of stations.
  • Adelaide to Mannum - road motor service.
  • Kalperri (Angaston line) - stopping place for rail motor service cars.
  • Mile End Junction - signals.
6
  • Railway gardens competition - grand champion prize, Mount Gambier.
  • Back to Mount Gambier celebrations.
  • Port Augusta - Quorn. Timetable changes for Commonwealth Railways.
  • Adelaide station - signals.
  • Port Elliot - signals.
7
  • Melbourne Express - ticket collections.
  • Western Australia - timetable for fast freight
  • Lyndhurst (Commonwealth Railways) - accounting staff.
  • Rowland's Flat - 'Wig-Wag' warning gong.
  • Pedlar's Crossing (Willunga line) - 'Wig-Wag' crossing gong.
  • Jabuk - stock yard
  • Mount Barker station - signals.
8
  • Port Adelaide - Dry Creek line - commendation re suggestion for step-down platform.
9
  • Coonalpyn - stock yard
  • Kumorna - sheep yard erected.
  • Port Adelaide - Dry Creek line - stopping place for S.A. Rolling Mills siding.
  • Paringa - triangle constructed.
  • Yorketown - Paskeville road motor service - agencies at Arthurton and Urania.
  • Coombe - three position signals.
10
  • 40 ton trucks temporarily converted to flat trucks.
  • Culburra - three position signalling.
  • Mitcham - 30 ton weighbridge withdrawn
  • Train Notices - instructions and term 'extra' to replace 'special'.
11
  • Mitcham - three position signalling.
  • Mount Pleasant - commendation to driver for removing Rail Motor car number 4 from shed on 14th February, and preventing it being destroyed by fire.
  • Nonedia (Victor Harbour line) - stopping place for rail motor passenger service cars.
  • Redhill line - timetable changes.
12
  • Waddikee - now permissive block station.
13
  • Port Wakefield - commendation re First Aid to Porter J. G. Smith, thus saving his life.
  • Mount Barker Junction - signals.
  • Paskeville - signals.
14
  • Morgan line - instructions.
  • Mitcham station - signals.
  • Bordertown station - signals.
  • Largs station - signals.
15
  • Yinkanie - resident accounting staff.
  • Morgan - arrangements for transport of grapes to Rowland's Flat.
16
  • Weekend and other excursion - list of stations applicable, and conditions.
  • Commonwealth rolling stock (Narrow-gauge) - list of locomotives and stock fitted with Westinghouse air-brakes.
17
  • Method of handling ale (bulk or bottled) ex Mile End.
  • Coonalpyn station - three position signalling
  • Marino - traffic for S.A. Portland Cement Company.
  • Punkulde (Milang line ) stopping place.
18
  • Quorn - accounting instructions.
19
  • Murray Bridge - Tailem Bend. Three position signalling.
20
  • Buckleboo line (Under construction) - sidings.
  • Two Wells - siding for milk traffic.
21
  • Railway road ambulance available for transport of passengers or employees injured or ill on railway premises.
  • Personal injuries sustained by employees -arrangements under Workmen's Compensation Acts.
  • Port Lincoln - motor delivery service for town.
  • Sleep's Hill - interlocking.
  • Mitcham station - three position signalling.
  • Mount Barker Junction - signalling.
22
  • Issue of tickets by Thos. Cook & Son.
  • South line - timetable changes.
  • Outer Harbour station - three position signalling.
  • Wanbi station -signalling.
23
  • Tailem Bend - Karoonda - Yinkannie - timetables
  • Limestone siding (Silverton Tramway) closed.
24
  • Loxton - switch indicator.
  • Victor Harbour line - stopping place at private crossing (between Littlehampton and Mount Barker Junction)
  • Melbourne - express freight service.
25
  • Collinsfield - method of working.
  • Mitcham - signalling.
  • Redhill - signalling.
26
  • Murray Bridge - closing of locomotive depot and opening of depot at Tailem Bend, effective 27th June
  • Outer Harbour - signalling.
  • Broad-gauge horse box - oil lamp lighting.
  • Peterborough Division - electric staff operation under train control 16th June.
  • 'Wig-Wag' crossing gongs. Canning Street, Port Adelaide. Draper. Seven Hills.
  • South line. Brighton. Kadina. Wallaroo. Moonta.
  • Rail motor cars - operation and lubrication.
27
  • Railway road ambulance.
  • Through booking of parcels for Eyre Peninsula.
  • Tintinara - three position signalling.
  • Station masters - rates of pay according to class, and listing of stations in each class.
28
  • Whistling Boards - instructions - enginemen must give one long, one short, and one long blast when indicated. Special instruction for suburban and protected crossings.
  • Victor Harbour line - stopping places Murapena, Murtonga,Tarooki.
  • Tatkana (Spalding line) stopping place.
29
  • Port Broughton and Mundoora - parcels and freight.
  • Buckleboo line - opening - timetable and sidings.
30
  • Hayhurst - ticket agency.
  • Victor Harbour line - stopping places Moonoerp, Wirlpana, Tinbalang, Parangal.
  • Kooramo (Spalding line) - stopping place.
31
  • Kyeema - freight siding.
  • Wolseley - signalling
  • Port Adelaide (Grand Junction) - signalling.
32
  • Cremated remains of deceased persons are conveyed by rail at double parcel rates.
  • Kilkenny - signalling.
33
  • Issue of tickets by Messrs Thos. Cook & Son.
  • Sleep's Hill departmental quarry - arrangements.
  • Aldgate - three position signalling.
34
  • Finniss - designation boards
  • Bute - signals.
35
  • Swansea (Outer Harbour line) - ticket agency.
  • 'Wig-Wags' Port Adelaide, Brighton and Mitcham.
  • Wallaroo station - signalling.
36
  • Back to Port Pirie celebrations.
  • Instructions to stationmasters and other accounting officers re Power's installation for freight accounting for interstate and foreign traffic., and including to Eyre Peninsula, Port Broughton, and lines under construction. (7 pages).
  • Long Gully - signals.
37
  • Mile End Freight Yard - signalling.
  • Aldgate - signalling.
  • Yacka - signalling.
  • Long Gully - signalling.
38
  • Long Gully to Mount Lofty - three position signalling.
  • Rowland's Flat - electric staff station.
39
  • Safety first - photograph of practice of car washer on carriage buffers.
  • Collinsfield - Port Broughton road motor service.
  • Gladstone - signalling
  • Victor Harbour line - operation of switch stands and diagrams.
40
  • Ambulance equipment - diagram of twist type tourniquet.
  • Glenelg Bath tickets.
  • Adelaide - Port Augusta via Gladstone - road-rail service.
  • Wunkar - sheep and cattle yards.
  • Sandalwood - triangle for rail motor service passenger cars.
  • Engines fitted with Pyle National Lighting must keep engine-number glass clean.
  • Kilkenny - signalling.
41
  • South Hummocks - cattle yards erected.
  • Maggea - combined sheep and cattle yards.
  • Gladstone - signalling.
42
  • Caliph - combined sheep and cattle yards.
  • Peterborough - Port Pirie, Electric staff system under train control.
  • Minkie (Truro line), name changed to Light's Pass.
  • Kyeema (Truro line), name changed to Plush's Corner.
  • Lochiel railway - opening
  • Victor Harbour line - introduction of train order working, 21st November.
  • Train Order signals - instructions with diagrams.
  • Specimen train order form.
43
  • Perponda - combined sheep and cattle yard.
  • Port Adelaide(Grand Junction) - signalling
  • Gladstone - signalling.
  • Keith - signalling.
  • South line - timetable changes.
  • Victor Harbour line - timetable changes.
  • Sleeping berth - booking instructions.
  • Eyesight and hearing tests.
44
  • Peterborough - Gumbowie - push engines.
  • Boucaut - electric staff instruments.
  • Owen - sheep and cattle yards.
  • Yangya (between Caltowie and Gladstone) open 15th November.
  • Eyesight and hearing tests.
45
  • Roseworthy - signals
  • Lochiel railway - open 15th November. Instructions and engine loads.
  • Port line - timetables.
  • Henley Beach line - timetables.
  • Adelaide to Mount Lofty - freight load for 500 class engine is 450 tons (this is the first reference in Weekly Notices relating to the big engines).
  • Terowie line - working
  • Morphett Vale station - reference.
  • Angaston line - engine loads.
  • Sleep's Hill - load for F class engines.
  • Tailem Bend line - timetables.
  • Victor Harbour line - timetables.
  • Serviceton line - engine loads for 700 class and 600 class.
  • Pinnaroo line - engine loads including 700 class.
  • Renmark line - engine loads for 700 class.
  • Camden - altered staff arrangements.
  • Duties of Crossing Keepers.
46
  • Bannya (Beachport line) - stopping place.
  • Filling water tanks on cars under air pressure.
  • Roseworthy to Hamley Bridge - three position signalling. Electric staff working between Roseworthy and Hamley Bridge discontinued.
  • Victor Harbour line - list of stations with train order signals.
  • Victor Harbour line - electric staff working discontinued 22nd November.
47
  • Sandergrove - Yard Limit sign provided. (? first reference to a Yard Limit sign)
  • Lochiel line - mileage is 4 miles, 57 chains, 62 links.
  • Kilkenny - signalling
  • Bridgewater to Aldgate - signalling.
  • Yacka - signalling.
  • Gulnare - signalling.
  • Collinsfield - resident accounting staff.
48
  • Camden - staff arrangements.
  • Rabila - signalman withdrawn.
  • Melbourne - express freight service.
  • Bridgewater to Aldgate - three position signalling.
  • Rabila - signalling.
  • Gulnare - signalling.
49
  • Georgetown - signalling.
  • Holden's platform - timetable.
  • Tailem Bend line - wayside telephone train control telephones in concrete shelters.
  • Railway road ambulance - instructions.
  • Duties of Crossing Keepers.
50
  • Collinsfield - 5 ton travelling crane
  • Bridgewater station - three position signalling.
  • Largs to Outer Harbour - three position signalling.
  • Long Gully station - signalling.
51
  • Kilkenny - switch locks.
  • Mitcham - hours of signalman.
  • Camden - ticket agency.
  • Ascot Park - ticket agency
  • Rowland's Flat - electric staff instrument installed.
  • Bridgewater - signalling.
  • Sandy creek - automatic electric staff instruments.
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