After This New Standard Gauge Line Between Port Augusta And Marree Opened in 1956 The Town's Of Quorn And Hawker Were isolated on the Narrow Gauge!🙂🛤️🚂🚆🚇🚃🚃🚃🚃🚃🏜️🐪🦅🇦🇺
there is plenty of coal. But when a previous government got carried away with their need to shut down real power production facilities, they closed the mine and shut down the power station at Port Augusta, thus removing one third of South Australia's power production, and replacing it with still not really effective "renewable" energy sources. Such is life, and "progress" and at the expense of reality is no progress at all.
Wonderful creation of the Commonwealth. They never got it beyond Maree. Then this triumph was bypassed in the 80s. The Leigh creek coalfield is long obsolete. Hurray Commonwealth planners.
So what it served it's purpose and delivered the coal, thats what it was built to do, it is no longer needed would you rather they had not built it to provide energy for a growing state?
Great old film 👌
After This New Standard Gauge Line Between Port Augusta And Marree Opened in 1956 The Town's Of Quorn And Hawker Were isolated on the Narrow Gauge!🙂🛤️🚂🚆🚇🚃🚃🚃🚃🚃🏜️🐪🦅🇦🇺
I love this video.
Thank you for the video
You're welcome
Wooden Sleepers.....I wonder how long they lasted?
some still are there
That is fascinating... They'd just drive the narrower gauge train right up on top of the newer. Or were they craned up?
Long abandoned and no more coal either !
there is plenty of coal. But when a previous government got carried away with their need to shut down real power production facilities, they closed the mine and shut down the power station at Port Augusta, thus removing one third of South Australia's power production, and replacing it with still not really effective "renewable" energy sources. Such is life, and "progress" and at the expense of reality is no progress at all.
Music score?
Wonderful creation of the Commonwealth. They never got it beyond Maree.
Then this triumph was bypassed in the 80s.
The Leigh creek coalfield is long obsolete.
Hurray Commonwealth planners.
You would've done it better!
So what it served it's purpose and delivered the coal, thats what it was built to do, it is no longer needed would you rather they had not built it to provide energy for a growing state?
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That era - the only perceived ‘value’ of the land was to exploit it...