SAR Terowie V2

For SAR Peterborough Narrow Gauge Division v2.0. For the original V1.0 click here  Commodities:  Passengers Goods Livestock      Loco Services:  Coal Water    Facilities:  Loop Turntable      Scenarios Starting at Terowie:   Vintage East-West Passenger Express  Gladstone to Terowie Passenger  Transcontinental Express Freights  Terowie Shunter  Servicing the Broad Gauge Express  Terowie-Peterborough-Paratoo Livestock  DLS Sessions Starting at Terowie:  <kuid:45176:109126> SAR Northern Division East-West Express 4 hours 30 minutes To Woolshed Flat <kuid:45176:109705> SAR Northern Division Terowie Broad Gauge Operations 35 minutes Terowie Yard only <kuid2:45176:109439:1> SAR Northern Division Terowie Livestock Shuttle 1 hour To Peterborough  Distance from Adelaide:  215 kms, 133½ miles  from Peterborough:  33 kms, 20½ miles Manned station, depot, terminus and a major break-of-gauge location on the narrow gauge (3ft6in - 1067mm)  Peterborough-Terowie Line  and the broad gauge (5ft3in - 1600mm)  Adelaide-Rosewater-Terowie Line . Apart from some short sections of dual gauge track in the depot, the two gauges were kept completely separate. Multiple loops and sidings for the station, goods and livestock transfers with a loco depot and servicing facilities. The platform at Terowie station was where US Army General Douglas Macarthur made his famous "I shall return" speech after he had been evacuated from the Philippines in 1942. He was changing trains from a narrow gauge service from Alice Springs to a broad gauge service to Adelaide. There is a plaque on the platform commemorating the event. The line from Terowie to Peterborough was converted to dual gauge with the addition of a standard gauge track in 1970. The  Adelaide-Rosewater-Terowie line  was closed in 1988 so Terowie no longer has a rail service and lost its major industry, servicing the break-of-gauge facilities. The town has since had a tourist revival due to its preserved pre-1960s era shops and buildings. Today the station platforms are still in place with commemorative plaques and part of the ground level platform building has been restored after it was severely damaged by a fire in the 1960s. There is a walking trail of interpretative signs leading from the station to the cemetery that identifies and describes the various railway infrastructure that once existed.