The 500 stabled at Murray Bridge used to be stabled on the remains of the line to the old bridge through the cutting. That was what it was used for mainly in the end.

Hilra?

HI AFULE,

Did I actually answer the question? If not...

I should not add afterthoughts should I?

Regards

Trevor

Sorry Trevor, yes you did


Regards

Rex

I heard a rumour years ago that the 700 class tenders were cut down as shunting dummies for the 500s to be used at Murray Bridge after one unit slid down the grade to the wharf. Said unit got towed back to Adelaide with flats on its wheels.

...train max speeds changed from mph to km/h....but initially it was only a direct conversion eg passenger trains had to operate at 96km/h until eventually increased to 100km/h (and later again increased to 110 km/h on concrete sleepers).
Fast and Express goods trains working on ie 35mph and 50mph...went to 60km/h and 80km/h.8)

It was train speed that changed... Loco hauled Passenger trains went from a top of 60 mph to 95 kph and Bluebirds went from 70 mph to 110 kph or a drop of about 2-3 mph. I am not sure how long that all lasted and when it went up. Trains with 4 wheelers went from a 35 limit to 55kph or about a 1 mph drop. The issue was the major positions of the "marker speeds" and the drivers were more used to seeing the needle positions than what they actually read...

Over to you TC but please keep it going...

Trevor

Just to start the ball rolling, and a total stab in the dark:

I would have thought it was possible to travel perhaps from Mt. Gambier on the Blue Lake daytime service and arrive in Adelaide in time to catch at the very least a train to Peterborough, but possibly even make it to Broken Hill on an overnight service.
All up distance would have to be close to 1,000Kms.

Better keep the ball rolling!!

I may be wrong in remembering it this way but there is some current discussion about stations that trains terminate at intermediate locations. However there was one station that a train stopped at and went back to Adelaide ONCE per week up to AFAIR the early 1970's... or maybe it was fractionally earlier. There were quite a few trains through the location... which station and what train?

Trevor

Glanville?  On Saturdays a train terminated there around midday, and returned to Adelaide.

What about Long Gully then. 383 terminated there at 10:29am and returned as 322. Perhaps the reason was to connect with the Second Division of the Overland, but I have no real idea.

The Glanville service I mentioned returned to Adelaide with every stop listed as pick-up or set-down if required.

If you have a WTT I presume you have a fuller picture than I do so I think it just ran Saturdays or did it run during the week. The only thing I can think of is that Bridgewater would have been served by the 9:00 (or was it 8:50) Down Victor and by an Up Tailem Bend Passenger... the capacity would have been well served!

In my time on the "job", engine 908 was "killer" after a fatal level crossing smash near Middleton c1970 - 5 deaths in the one smash and 908 went on to kill 2 more people in separate l-xing smashes....I'm sure some steam engines had similar 'in house' nick names.