Waikerie railway line

Waikerie railway line
Overview
StatusClosed and removed
Termini
Continues fromBarmera line
Service
SystemSouth Australian Railways
Operator(s)South Australian Railways
Australian National
History
Opened23 September 1914
ClosedGalga–Waikerie:14 March 1990
Karoonda–Galga: 4 March 1994
Technical
Line length119.0 km (73.9 mi)
Track gauge1600 mm (5 ft 3 in)
Route map

Legend
Waikerie railway line
Red was broad gauge, blue is standard gauge
 Waikerie
Kanni
Holder Siding
Boolgun
Maggea
Hillmanville
Mantung
Mercunda
Galga
Kunlara
Copeville
Goondooloo
Kalyan
Perponda
Mindiyarra
Karoonda
Loxton & Barmera lines
Peebinga railway line
The six railway lines of the Murraylands[1][2]
Order
built		 Line Year
opened		 Year
closed		 Length
(km)		 Length
(mi)
1 Tailem Bend–Pinnaroo 1906 2015[note a] 86.6 139.4
2 Tailem Bend–Barmera 1913 /
1928[note b]		 1996[note c] 159.5 256.6
3 Karoonda–Peebinga 1914 1990 66.0 106.2
4 Karoonda–Waikerie 1914 1994[note d] 73.8 118.7
5 Alawoona–Loxton 1914 2015[note e] 22.0 35.5
6 Wanbi–Yinkanie 1925 1971 31.5 50.6
Total 439.4 707.0
Notes
  1. Previously a broad-gauge through line into Victoria, the line was closed at the border in 1996 before being converted to standard gauge in 1998.
  2. Construction of the Barmera line was paused at Paringa in 1913 pending funding of a bridge over the River Murray. The line was completed to Barmera in 1928.
    A branch line was built to support construction of the proposed Chowilla Dam in 1966–67. Some 27.3 kilometres (17.0 miles) long, it branched from the Barmera line 8 kilometres (5 miles) south of Paringa and proceeded to Murtho on the south bank of the River Murray. Construction of the dam was deferred in 1967 and subsequently cancelled; later the line was removed without being used.
  3. Paringa–Barmera closed in 1984; Alawoona–Paringa closed in 1990; Tailem Bend–Alawoona closed in 1996.
  4. Galga–Waikerie closed in 1990.
  5. Converted to standard gauge in 1996.

The Waikerie railway line was a railway line on the South Australian Railways network.

  1. ^ Quinlan, Howard; Newland, John R. (2000). Australian railway routes 1854–2000. Redfern, New South Wales: Australian Railway Historical Society, New South Wales Division. pp. 53–54. ISBN 0909650497.
  2. ^ Map showing lines of railways in South Australia and through mileages (Map). Adelaide: South Australian Railways. 1958 – via National Railway Museum, Port Adelaide.