Mount Gambier railway line

Mount Gambier railway line
GM43 and 852 ready to haul the last freight train out of Mount Gambier's old yard to Keswick on 12th April 1995.
Overview
StatusClosed, Dormant
Termini
Continues fromAdelaide–Wolseley line
Continues asMount Gambier–Heywood line
Service
SystemSouth Australian Railways
Operator(s)South Australian Railways
Australian National
History
OpenedNaracoorte-Custon: 21 September 1881
Custon-Bordertown: 31 March 1883
Naracoorte–Mount Gambier: 14 June 1887
Closed31 December 1990 (passenger)
12 April 1995 (freight)
1 July 2006 (tourist)
Technical
Line length183.2 km (113.8 mi)
Track gauge1,600 mm (5 ft 3 in)
Old gauge1,067 mm (3 ft 6 in)
Route map

Wolseley
Custon
Frances
Binnum
Kybybolite
Hynam
Naracoorte
to Kingston SE
Stewarts
Lucindale
Avenue
Bull Creek
Reedy Creek
Kingston SE
Struan
Glenroy
Coonawarra
Penola
Krongart
Kalangadoo
Wepar
Suttons
to Glencoe
Wandilo
to Beachport
Rendelsham
Millicent
Cellulose
Tantanoola
Burrungule
Marte
Compton
Mount Gambier
severed 2015
to Heywood

[1]

The Mount Gambier railway line is a closed railway line in South Australia. Opened in stages from 1881, it was built to narrow gauge and joined Mount Gambier railway station, which was at that time the eastern terminus of a line to Beachport. It connected at Naracoorte to another isolated narrow gauge line joining Naracoorte to Kingston SE, and to the broad gauge Adelaide-Wolseley line at Wolseley, at around the same time that was extended to Serviceton to become the South Australian part of the interstate Melbourne–Adelaide railway. It was closed in April 1995.

  1. ^ Chief Engineer for Railways. "Map showing lines of railways in South Australia" (Map). Johnny's Pages. South Australian Railways. Archived from the original on 6 July 2017. Retrieved 25 November 2018.