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THE TRAINS

SOUTH AUSTRALIAN RAILWAYS

WEEKLY NOTICES

1928

Interim listing

1
  • Ratchet Hand Brake - instructions and diagram.
  • Willunga line - timetables.
  • Bowmans rail-motor - timetables.
  • South line - engine loads.
2
  • Thebarton station - hours of operation.
  • Marino line - timetable.
3
  • Tailem Bend to Wolseley - train control telephone circuit in service.
  • Redhill line - engine loads.
  • Spalding line - changed freight timetable.
  • South line - passenger timetable changes.
  • Victor Harbour line - passenger timetable changes.
4
  • Wallaroo - signalling
  • Adelaide station - signalling.
  • Belair station -signalling.
5
  • Commendation for suggestion of running a rail car to Victor Harbour on Sundays.
  • Load for freight train with 700 class with booster may be increased 20%, except on tunnel sections where load must no exceed 420 tons.
  • Adelaide to Eden - rail motor timetable.
  • Mr. R. Doran (former platelaying inspector) - retirement, and photograph on inspection trike.
  • Millicent - timetable of rail service car.
6
  • List of officers authorised to issue passes.
  • Pinnaroo - signals and station diagram.
7
  • Bowmans - signalling removed.
  • Gawler - timetable of Saturday passenger motor.
  • Mile End Junction - three position signalling.
8
  • Belair passenger service - rail motor - timetable.
9
  • Belair and Blackwood - three position signalling.
10
  • Adelaide station yard - new spring switch - track diagram.
  • Yeelana and Pearlah - combined sheep and cattle yard.
  • Port Adelaide Dock Station - New marshalling Yard in operation 19th March, with track diagram, and instructions for shunting to various wharves. Timetables.
  • Regulation re sickness, injury and medical examination.
11
  • Mr. T. Abbott - retirement and photograph.
12
  • Blackwood - signalling
  • Dry Creek station - signalling.
  • Port Adelaide Yard - signalling and interlocking with track diagrams.
  • Locomotives fitted with compressed air respirators - all 500 class, Engines 605, 703 and 709.
  • Terowie line - load for 700 class fitted with booster is 25% in excess of schedule load.
  • Angaston line - timetable changes.
  • Robertstown line - timetable changes.
  • Spalding line - stop for passengers between Rhynie and Undalya
  • Renmark line - timetable changes.
13
  • Goodwood Junction - three-position signalling.
14
  • Blackwood station - signalling.
  • Glenelg lines - timetable changes (19 pages).
  • Mount Gambier line - rail service car and timetables.
  • Kingston line - timetables.
15
  • Culburra - sheep race.
  • Road motor service between Adelaide and Ashbourne is discontinued.
  • Keswick - station master withdrawn.
  • Mount Gambier line - timetables
  • Glencoe mixed - timetable.
16
  • Port Adelaide Dock station - signalling alterations.
  • Wynarka - caretaker withdrawn.
17
  • Hynam - station closed Saturdays.
  • Road motor service for freight to Murray Bridge and Victor Harbour discontinued.
  • Paskeville - Yorketown Road motor service discontinued.
18
  • 'Perhaps of all actions into which the evil passions of humanity are led, there is none more base than that of writing an anonymous letter'.
  • Adelaide to Gawler road freight service still operating.
  • Dry Creek station - signalling.
  • Rudall - combined sheep and cattle yards
  • Yaninee - combined sheep ad cattle yards
19
  • Dry Creek - signalling
  • Arrangements for reduced rate for carriage of starving breeding ewes removed for agistment.
20
  • C. B. Anderson appointed Special Assistant to the Commissioner.
  • Hackham - removal of stop indicator.
  • Collinsfield - Port Broughton motor service - through booking of passengers.
21
  • Waikerie, Loxton, and Yinkannie lines - train order working effective 21st May.
  • Cockburn line - signalling changes, and alteration to electric staff operation.
22
  • Buckleboo line - dog-proof gates removed.
  • Gladstone line, Brinkworth to Snowtown, Balaklava to Bowmans - introduction of train order working 28th May.
  • Spalding line - freight timetable alteration.
  • Moonta - Wallaroo - timetable alteration.
  • Mount Pleasant line - freight timetable alteration.
23
  • Belair - signalling.
  • Stopping of steam trains at authorised stopping places, when working in place of rail motor cars - guards must provide step ladders for passengers.
  • Motor Transport - instructions relating the Motor Transport Board that controls all transportation outside of the metropolitan area., and staff must ensure that business for the Railways is secured.
24
  • Yacka - signalling.
  • Signalling - St. Leonards Yard.
  • Level Crossings - rail motor cars may stop at any level crossing for passengers to join or alight, beyond Blackwood, Marino, Salisbury, and Gawler.
  • Glenelg line (South Terrace) - timetable alteration.
  • Heathfield Crossing - provision of step-down carriage on train so that passengers can alight.
25
  • Eden to Blackwood - double line working
  • Gawler - timetable alteration.
  • South line and Victor Harbour line - timetable changes. The Victor Harbour passenger train stopped at Finniss to attach a milk van.
26
  • Warning gongs - 'wig - wags' at Newcastle St., Port Adelaide, and Mount Barker.
  • Meribah - sheep and cattle yards.
  • Mount Gambier line - mail arrangements.
  • Willunga Sand Company's siding at 26 miles, 49 chains. Instructions.
  • Morgan and River Murray settlements - combined rail and motor fares.
  • Redhill to Crystal Brook and Port Pirie - combined rail and motor fares.
  • Bowmans - signalling
  • Eden - signalling.
  • Blackwood to Belair - double line working from 24th June.
  • Dry Creek to Salisbury - signalling and interlocking.
27
  • Balyarta loop - signalling.
  • Emerson (Willunga line) opened 16th July.
  • Mount Gambier line - freight timetable changes.
28
  • Gawler - signalling.
  • Eden - three-position signalling.
29
  • Dry Creek marshalling yard - instructions and track diagram.
  • The 'King of Transport' charity carnival launched.
  • Gawler - signalling instruction in W.N. 28 cancelled.
  • Bowmans - signalling.
  • Adelaide Station - three-position signalling and track diagram
  • Barmera line - open 1st August.
30
  • Barmera line - timetables, mileages, sidings.
  • 'King of Transport' - letter of support by W. A. Webb.
  • 'Adelaide', 'Mount Lofty' and 'Macedon' cars - instructions for Westinghouse air brakes.
31
  • Redhill line - engine loads.
  • 'KIng of Transport' - Lionel Coventry cartoon. Also itinerary that features events in Adelaide Railway Station Banqueting Hall. Declaration that exemption from State and Federal Amusement Tax is made. 'Advertiser' cartoonist, Mr. Kerwin Maegraith is compiling a book of 40 drawings of representative railway men.
  • Port Elliot station - signalling
  • Riverton - signalling.
  • Noarlunga Sand Company siding (Willunga line) - instructions.
32
  • Blackwood - three-position signalling.
  • 'King of Transport' - 'Wigs and Wags' the title of Mr. Kerwin Maegraith's cartoon book.
33
  • Dry Creek station - signals and interlocking.
  • 'King of Transport' - Lionel Coventry cartoon of H. Goldbeck
  • Mail weighings.
34
  • C. B. Anderson appointed General Superintendent.
  • Auburn - derails installed.
  • Abattoirs - switchstand.
  • Kapunda - signalling
  • Port Adelaide - signalling and track diagram.
  • Back to Quorn celebrations.
  • 'Kings of Transport' - Lionel Coventry cartoon. Ten Thousand copies of 'Wigs and Wags' have been printed.
  • Kirkaldy and Marlborough Street platforms too short for six car trains.
35
  • Gladstone line, Bowmans to Balaklava, and Brinkworth to Snowtown - operation under train control - instructions.
  • Kadina - Moonta. Operation under train control from 3rd September.
  • Adelaide Y - three-position signals
  • Fords - track alterations
  • Travelling Post Office vans discontinued fro all lines from 1st September.
  • Dry Creek - signalling
  • Nantabibbie - signalling.
36
  • Dry Creek - signalling
  • Kadina - Snowtown - train order working from 3rd September.
  • Moonta - Bowmans - train order working from 3rd September.
  • Peecharra (Cockburn line) - open, 12th September.
  • Freeling - signals.
  • Adelaide Show - where steam trains substituted for passenger motors, first class tickets may be sold if required.
37
  • Mile End Junction - three-position signalling.
  • Wasleys - signalling.
38
  • 'King of Transport' - Coventry cartoon featuring A. N. Day, General traffic Manager.
  • Back to Hindmarsh celebrations.
  • Owen - signalling
39
  • Coolawatinnie (Cockburn line) open 5th October.
  • Back to Victor Harbor Carnival (Note spelling of Harbor).
40
  • Commendation re gate at Ethelton, to allow passengers a shorter route to M. V. 'Minnipa'.
  • Blackwood - three position signalling.
41
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42
  • Willunga line - introduction of 'Stub' coupon tickets - instructions with illustration of tickets.
  • 'King of Transport' - A. N. Day wins charity crown. A listing of the various departments and divisions provides a tally of the number of staff employed in the South Australian Railways.
43
  • Peterborough - signalling.
  • Nantabibbie - signalling.
  • Back to Clare Celebrations
  • Wawirra (Cockburn line) - open 2nd November.
  • Warning Gongs - Kapunda, Oaklands, Edwardstown, Unley Park, Hawthorn.
44
  • Glanville - signalling.
  • Back to Clare celebrations - concession valid for travel to FarrellÕs Flat, Brinkworth or Blyth.
45
  • Commendation to Porter W. H. Fraser, for introducing a machine for rolling toilet paper for the 'Mount Lofty' sleeping car.
  • Port Adelaide - signalling.
46
  • Methuen - automatic electric staff working.
47
  • Mulpata (Peebinga Line) - formerly Nelsonville.
  • Mutooroo, Cutana, (Cockburn line) - automatic electric staff working.
48
  • Adelaide yard - electric signalling and interlocking.
  • Kadina - Brinkworth line - engine loads.
  • Port Broughton - Collinsfield - road motor service. Timetable and fares.
49
  • Ucolta , Outalpa , (Cockburn line) - signal changes and electric staff working.
  • Port Adelaide - Cabin A - signalling.
  • Port Adelaide line - timetable changes
  • Terowie line - timetable changes
50
  • Kunlara (Waikerie line) moved to new site.
  • Sleep's Hill - three-position signalling.
51
  • Holden's Platform - instructions.
  • Parafield - passenger motors may stop if required.
  • Mount Hope line - timetable.
  • Central Australian line - open to Rumbalara 23rd December. Timetables and sidings.
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