SOUTH AUSTRALIAN RAILWAYS • Find • State Library of South Australia

A.R.H.S. F 240

Skewes, R. E., 1966, Photograph, B 46528/238

Australian Railway Historical Society F 240, first steam train to Tonsley.

Australian Ornithologists : Warunda

1909, Photograph, B 57823/141

Railway station.

Flag-waving crowds at Keswick Railway Station

Ryan, Mary, 2004, Photograph, B 69078

Crowds waving souvenir Ghan and Australian flags shortly before the departure of the Ghan on its inaugural journey from Adelaide to Darwin, 1st February 2004.

Rear view of an SAR wagon

c. 1950, Photograph, B 67083

Rear view of a steel ore wagon, constructed at the South Australian Railways, Islington workshop.

Governor's visit

Laver, Jack, 1923, Photograph, PRG 1365/1/545

Chief Commissioner William Alfred Webb of South Australian Railway and Dr Basedow, 1923.

Men of the Naval Reserve preparing for a march in Adelaide

1918, Photograph, PRG 280/1/15/407

Men of the Naval Reserve lined up near the Adelaide railway station preparing for a street march, possibly to celebrate Navy Day.

Photographs of roads, bridges, equipment, vehicles and floods

c. 1875, Photograph, B 72583/1-44

Collection of photographs showing bridges, roads, vehicles, road construction equipment, punts, River Murray flood scenes and a cover from a South Australian themed Christmas card.

Photographs re Adelaide Trades and Labour Council events

SA Unions, 1937, Photograph, SRG 1/32/1

Six photographs re Adelaide Trades and Labour Council events including Australian members interstate. Includes play script "At Home with the Valentines"; A Working Class Sketch in Two Acts, by Tom Garland.

Photos taken by Messenger Press of government, business and residential sites in the north-eastern suburbs of Adelaide

Messenger Press, c. 1940, Photograph, B 75307/1-48

A collection of photographs by the Messenger Press taken at locations around the north-eastern suburbs of Adelaide. According to brief paperwork attached to the photos, many were taken for the Standard Messenger newspaper. Where more than one date has been added to a photo, one of the dates may refer to when it was published in the newspaper. See 'contents' for details of items.

Sketch map - Adelaide, South Australia [cartographic material] / prepared by Commonwealth Section, Imperial General Staff

Great Britain. War Office. General Staff. Commonwealth Section, Archival map/chart, C 1111

Topographic map of the Adelaide region with some cadastral detail. Details include roads, railways, suburban villages, rivers and creeks, farms and some owners' names. Relief shown by contours. June 1915 reprint of the 1913 survey published in 1914.

[Australia Day ribbon July 27th 1917]

1917, Realia, PRG 373/8E/1

A ribbon issued for Australia Day July 27th 1917. It bears the words 'We have sent a Railway Unit to the Front' and 'Enginemen, Firemen & Cleaners Association.' The ribbon is illustrated with a magpie in the foreground sitting on a wooden fence and holding a sprig of wattle in its beak. In the background is a train and green hills.

Miscellaneous documents

Baker, Richard, Sir, 1881, Photograph, PRG 38/4

Four loose documents found in the album (series 2): 1. invoice to Messrs A. Wyly & Co, Beltana Pastoral Co, 15 April 1881, for the hire of 8 camels and 2 Afghan cameleers plus rations; 2. notice from the South Australian Railways, 9 August 1884, advising of a special sheep train from Adelaide to Burra; 3. a hand written recipe for 'Mother Seigals syrup' which appears to have been signed by Dr Treverton; and 4. a list of household expenses, March to April 1917.

Train at Port Augusta

c. 1920, Photograph, B 78158

Transcontinental train at Port Augusta station.

New jetty, Kingston

c. 1890, Photograph, B 10036

New jetty, Kingston with a ship at anchor. The town was named after Sir George Strickland Kingston, a South Australian politician, surveyor and architect. It is located on the shores of Lacepede Bay and is located at about 150 miles from Adelaide. The railway was built connecting it to the outside world in 1876. Deep sea and lobster fishing was a significant industry at this time.

Old and new jetties, Kingston

c. 1890, Photograph, B 10037

Old and new jetties, Kingston. The town was named after Sir George Strickland Kingston, a South Australian politician, surveyor and architect. It is located on the shores of Lacepede Bay, about 150 miles from Adelaide. The railway was built connecting it to the outside world in 1876 when deep sea and lobster fishing was a significant industry. The first jetty was built in 1864-65 and was 511 feet long and is still used today. In 1876 a second jetty, about 4000 feet long was built but It was wrecked by storms in 1923 and 1956. The current jetty is a remnant of the original jetty.

Flooding, Lameroo

1908, Photograph, B 8009

Floodwaters at Lameroo, 2nd September 1908 where the annual rainfall is 15.1 inches. Lameroo is situated in the Murray Mallee near the South Australian and Victoria border. The township was established in 1896 and the railway line was built in 1906. The photograph shows a few buildings and the surrounding floodwaters.

Crane: Port Adelaide

1941, Photograph, B 39317

South Australian Harbors Board 15 Ton steam railway crane being converted in 1941, as a war time measure, to a 50 Ton traversing crane at Outer Harbour.

South Adelaide

Berger, H., c. 1860, Artwork, B 13806

Tinted lithograph of a panoramic view of Adelaide looking down King William Street and across the Torrens River from Montefiore Hill. The artwork includes a border featuring 18 smaller images of important buildings in the Adelaide area [from top left, going clockwise) Trinity Church, Hospital, Government Offices, Lunatic Asylum, Unitarian Church, Bank of Australasia, Congregational Church, St. Francis Zavier Cathedral, Adelaide Railway Station, St. Andrew's Church, Parliament House, Government House, Supreme Court, Scotch Church [sic], Post Office, Pirie Street Chapel, Baptist Chapel and the South Australian Institute.

Hindmarsh River Bridge

c. 1885, Photograph, B 11714

The Bridge over Hindmarsh River, Victor Harbor. The Hindmarsh River rises in the Mount Lofty Ranges below Mount Cone and flows through the Hindmarsh Valley before reaching its mouth and emptying into Encounter Bay at Victor Harbor. John Monash established the South Australian Reinforced Concrete Company which built the Hindmarsh River Railway Bridge at Victor Harbor. This bridge is the first reinforced concrete bridge in Australia and one of the first reinforced concrete girder bridges

Ooldea Spring

c. 1912, Photograph, B 34949

Ooldea spring.

Ooldea Spring

c. 1912, Photograph, B 34950

Ooldea spring.

Parliament House, Adelaide

State Library of South Australia, c. 1938, Photograph, B 7693

[General description] View from the carpark at the rear of the Houses of Parliament. On the left is part of the House of Assembly, in the centre is the rear of the Legislative Council building (old Parliament House). On the right a glimpse of the South Australian Hotel (on North Terrace) can be seen. [On back of photograph] 'View of buildings at the rear of the Legislative Council Chamber / North Terrace / July 27th 1938 / Photograph taken from elevated roadway leading to the Railway Station'.

Centenary train, Loco. 605

1936, Photograph, B 46528/119

Centenary train, Loco. 605, first trip through the Hills. A researcher has suggested that this is not the Centenary Train of 1936, but an Australian Railway Historical Society tour train, hauled by two RX type locomotives (two plumes of smoke can be seen), possibly in the 1960s. The horizontal bars on the carriage windows were added between 1937 and 1947, and were not a feature of the Centenary Train carriages.