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Train accident on the Great Northern Railway line

1914, Photograph, B 31179

After leaving Port Augusta for Quorn on 28 March 1914 the coal train comprising 27 carriages and two locomotives was derailed in the vicinity of the lagoon to the East of Port Augusta. "About 2 miles had been covered,... when the boiler of the second engine (No 103), without the slightest warning, burst on the left hand side."

Train accident on the Great Northern Railway line

1914, Photograph, B 31180

After leaving Port Augusta for Quorn on 28 March 1914 the coal train comprising 27 carriages and two locomotives was derailed. "About 2 miles of the journey had been covered, when in the vicinity of the lagoon the boiler of the second engine (No 103), without the slightest warning, burst on the left hand side, and the concussion caused the engine to sway to the right".

Train accident on the Great Northern Railway line

1914, Photograph, B 31181

The coal train comprising 27 carriages and 2 locomotives was derailed after leaving Port Augusta for Quorn on 28 March 1914. The boiler on the second locomotive ('Y' class No 103) burst.

Train accident on the Great Northern Railway line

1914, Photograph, B 31182

The coal train was derailed by a boiler explosion after leaving Port Augusta for Quorn on 28 March 1914.

School children visit to Port Augusta

1907, Photograph, B 48326

Visit by 63 school children from Leigh's Creek, Beltana, and Wilson state schools to Port Augusta on 6 December 1907. "They had been at the schools' exhibition at Quorn on the previous day and Mr Nadebaum, of the Leighs Creek School, having promised his pupils a sight of the sea, the Acting Director (Mr Maughan) arranged to have the idea enlarged, and scholars of the other schools joined in the outing....The Mayor (Mr T. Hewitson) and Mr J. Holdsworth (Chairman of the Board of Advice) met the children at the station. The mayor welcomed them, and intimated that a visit to the shipping, beach and a trip on the gulf had been arranged." (Port Augusta Dispatch 13 December 1907, page 2.).

Pichi Richi Hamlet

1881, Artwork, B 16708

Pencil on card illustration of the Pichi Richi Hamlet, depicting an intersection of roads and showing detail of dwellings and farm buildings in the foreground. The Pichi Richi train tracks can just be made out at the bottom right corner. Annotation in bottom right corner reads '25 July 1881'.

Convent of the Sisters of St. Joseph

1927, Photograph, B 4514

[General description] This new single storey convent building is built of stone with red brick quoins and has the gabled roof fashionable it the time. [On back of photograph] 'Reproduced in the "Observer", Nov. 26, 1927 / Convent of the Sisters of St. Joseph, Port Augusta / Nov. 1927 / Opened Nov. 13, 1927 by Archbishop Spence' (Another hand) 'Architect Mr. J. Firmin Jenkins of Port Pirie / Contractor Mr. W.R. Thompson of Quorn'.

'Bob, the railway dog' at Port Augusta

c. 1887, Photograph, B 6422

PORT AUGUSTA: 'Bob, the railway dog' sitting on top of the driver's car of a stationary locomotive at Port Augusta Railway yard, railway staff stand in a group alongside the vehicle. Left to right: C.E. Dench, G. Graham, T. Nicholls, G. Denham, Harrison or Spooner, ?, T. Stack, ?; on engine: Fred Lyons, J.W. Roberts.

Post Office and Town Hall of Port Augusta

1932, Photograph, B 8089

Post Office and Town Hall of Port Augusta was erected in 1886-87. The main hall was destroyed by fire in 1944. The Town Hall was built of brownstone from Quorn, decorated with Ionic columns and gables either side of the square clock tower.

Naval Ships

c. 1920, Photograph, B 30535

Naval ships "The Destroyer", and "S.S. Quorne".

Church of England

c. 1910, Photograph, B 17434

Church of England Sunday school picnic.

St Matthew's Church

c. 1910, Photograph, B 32812

St Matthew's Church of England.

Saltia Hotel, Saltia

Sweet, Samuel White, c. 1880, Photograph, B 10681

Saltia Hotel. David Lithgow was the licensee in the early 1880s. Copy in Sweet Collection folder 5 has Sweet signature (Sweet Adelaide 397). Saltia was a town between Port Augusta and Quorn. The hotel as built in 1859 to service the bullock drivers and the proprietor was David Lithgow. A school was established in 1864 with twenty students. Evening classes were available for students who could not attend during the daytime. By 1880 there were forty three students attending the school. Thomas Lees house was demolished to make way for the railwayline and later the town died as there was no need for the bullock teams to stop at Saltia. A famous son of Saltia was John Maslin (1826-1908) who was a sheep property owner.

Saltia

c. 1888, Photograph, B 11494

View of a train at Saltia Railway Station, with the hotel in the middle ground. Saltia was a town between Port Augusta and Quorn. The hotel was built in 1859 to service the bullock drivers and the proprietor was David Lithgow. The train in the station has various loads on board including sacks of wheat, ore and passengers

Railway Bridge at Saltia Creek

Sweet, Samuel White, c. 1880, Photograph, B 11489

Railway Bridge at Saltia Creek, near Port Augusta. This railway bridge is known locally as the "Lattice Bridge", and is located on the Port Augusta side of Woolshed Flat. Sweet Adelaide 418. A researcher has suggested that this bridge is located on the Quorn side of Woolshed Flat, not the Port Augusta side. The bridge is over the Waukarie Creek at Woolshed Flat, just before it converges with the Saltia Creek.

Railway accident, Walloway

c. 1901, Photograph, B 44314

Railway accident, a infamous head-on smash just south of Walloway, November 1901. Walloway was on the former Peterborough-Quorn line.

Christian Traugott Leberecht Leopold

1920, Photograph, B 36756

Christian Traugott Leberecht Leopold, son of Johann Carl (Karl) Friedrich Leopold and Johanne Luise Caroline Leopold, nee Preller. Christian was born on 19 October 1845 in Bethany, South Australia. He married Louise Pauline Liebech on 16 July 1868 at Greenock, South Australia. He died on 11 August 1930 at Quorn, South Australia.

Railway Ceremony

Williams, G. H., 1912, Photograph, B 488/3

Ceremony of turning the first sod of the East-West railway line, arrival at Quorn.

Royal Train

1934, Photograph, B 6505

The Royal train in the Pichi Richi Pass with the Duke of Gloucester on board. An aerial photograph of the Royal train pulled by steam engine in the Pichi Richi Pass in South Australia in October 1934.

Royal Train

1934, Photograph, B 9234

South Australian Railway, Engine of Royal Train, Quorn to Terowie 11th October 1934 at the time of the Duke of Gloucester's visit. Class "T" No. 203 - 3'6" gauge.

Pirie Street

Dailey, S. J., c. 1895, Photograph, B 9024

Freemason's Tavern, Pirie Street, south side. The far side of the hotel is 64 yards east of Gawler Place. The frontage is 15 yards. The hotel existed since 1841 and at the time of this photograph the proprietor was Mrs L Murray. The hotel was known as the Freemansons Hotel from 1886. The owner appears to be WA Jones who, according to a banner on the hotel, was late of the Freemasons Tavern at Wilmington and Quorn.

Franklin Street, North Side

c. 1860, Photograph, B 7148

Franklin Street, North Side in the late 1860's Looking North-east. The balcony on left faces west The side of the house faces south. The house stood back from Franklin Street about 8yds. and its back (on the right) was about 55 yds. west of Morphett St. Owned & occupied by Joseph Mellor(1808-1880) (manufacturer of agricultural implements) It was demolished in 1890's. Mellor and Brothers was a farm implement manufacturers in Adelaide circa 1868. Branches operated from Franklin Street, Kapunda, Jamestown and Quorn.

Motor Car

Walpole, E. L., c. 1930, Photograph, B 47089/313

Motor car travelling to Quorn.

Winnowing wheat at Arden Vale

c. 1916, Photograph, B 62187

ARDEN VALE: George Klinberg using a winnower with an automatic bag filler attached on a property at Arden Vale, north of Quorn; the automatic filler was a new feature of farm machinery replacing the need to catch the wheat on a tarpaulin and shovel it into bags, a pile of 'Cocky Chaff' grows in the background which will be stored and used for feed in bad seasons.