SAR Quorn

Commodities:  Passengers Goods Grain Fuels    Loco Services:  Coal Water    Facilities:  Depot Loop Turntable   Major manned station and junction on the  Port Augusta-Hawker Line  and the  Peterborough-Quorn Line  and until 1932 a vital part of the Transcontinental Railway. From 1926 to 1973 Quorn was staffed by the Commonwealth Railways. From 1973 to March 1978 it was staffed by the SAR. Multiple Loops and sidings for station, goods, grain and fuel depot plus loco servicing facilities. Quorn was originally the junction between the  Central Australia Line  (Port Augusta to Alice Springs) and the  Peterborough-Quorn Line  and was a major service and supply centre. In 1950 the Central Australia Line was diverted away from Quorn and in 1956 the old Central Australia Line from Port Augusta was closed except for the section between Quorn and Hawker. As a result traffic through Quorn declined significantly. The Peterborough-Quorn Line closed in 1987/88. After the closure of the Quorn-Hawker Line in 1972, Quorn became the operations centre for the Pichi Richi Railway, a narrow gauge steam preservation railway running along the original line from Quorn to Port Augusta.