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
Status	Closed, Dormant
Termini	Wolseley Mount Gambier
Continues from	Adelaide–Wolseley line
Continues as	Mount Gambier–Heywood line
Service
System	South Australian Railways
Operator(s)	South Australian Railways Australian National
History
Opened	Naracoorte-Custon: 21 September 1881 Custon-Bordertown: 31 March 1883 Naracoorte–Mount Gambier: 14 June 1887
Closed	31 December 1990 (passenger) 12 April 1995 (freight) 1 July 2006 (tourist)
Technical
Line length	183.2 km (113.8 mi)
Track gauge	1,600 mm (5 ft 3 in)
Old gauge	1,067 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 Glencoe Wandilo to Beachport Beachport Rendelsham Millicent Cellulose Tantanoola Burrungule Marte Compton Mount Gambier severed 2015 to Heywood broad gauge standard gauge 3 ft 6 in narrow gauge [1] This diagram: view talk edit

The Mount Gambier railway line was a railway line on the South Australian Railways network. 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. Since its closure in 1995 following the standardisation of the interstate main line, there have been varying calls for standardisation of the railway between Wolseley and Heywood.^{[citation needed]}