Grace's Guide To British Industrial History

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Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 162,345 pages of information and 244,505 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 147,919 pages of information and 233,587 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

South Australian Railways

From Graces Guide
1926. Six-Coupled Engine Armstrong Whitworth.

South Australian Railways built and operated railways in South Australia from 1854 to the incorporation of its non-urban railways into the Australian National in 1975, together with the former Commonwealth Railways and the former Tasmanian Government Railways. The Adelaide urban lines were transferred to the State Transport Authority.

South Australia is one of the few places in Australia, if not the world that has all three major rail gauges, in addition to other uncommon gauges.[1]

1910 South Australia State Railway. Operating 1,912 miles. Officers - Alexander B. Moncrieff, Commissioner; Walter Rutt, Chief Engineer; B. F. Rushton, Chief Mechanical Engineer.[2]

See Also

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Sources of Information

  1. Wikipedia
  2. 1911 Bradshaw’s Railway Manual