SAR Scenario East-West Express

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 Vintage East-West Express: Terowie to Quorn Passenger 
Between 1917 and 1932 the Terowie-Peterborough-Quorn Line was a vital part of the Transcontinental Railway between Sydney, NSW on the east coast and Perth, WA on the west coast.

The South Australian Railways provided an express passenger service, the East-West Express, that ran between Terowie and Port Augusta via Quorn. At Terowie it connected with broad gauge services from Adelaide. At Peterborough it connected with narrow gauge services from Broken Hill where there was a standard gauge connection from Sydney. At Quorn it connected with narrow gauge services from the Central Australian Line. At Port Augusta it connected with standard gauge services to Kalgoolie, where there was a narrow gauge connection to Perth.

Passengers making the entire trip from Sydney to Perth would change trains 5 times - Parkes NSW, Broken Hill NSW, Peterborough SA, Port Augusta SA and Kalgoolie WA. They would change track gauges 3 times - standard to narrow at Broken Hill, narrow to standard at Port Augusta and standard to narrow at Kalgoolie. They would have to navigate through 5 different rail systems - NSWGR, Silverton Tramway, SAR, Commonwealth Railways and WAGR. Plus take a taxi between two stations in Broken Hill. The entire journey from coast to coast would take 6 days, if all the connections were made.

Today passengers can board a luxury train, the Indian Pacific, in Sydney and travel the entire distance to Perth in 3 days without leaving the train.		 Bottom
East West Express
Each location in the layout has a detailed set of track diagrams that provide the following information:-
  • the names of the tracks, sidings and loops
  • the location of various facilities - stations, turntables, water columns, coal stages, engine sheds, active industries
  • the names of active industries and their products and consumables
  • the names and locations of trackmarks for Drive To and Drive Via commands
  • the names, properties and locations of track switches and lists of switch sets for particular movements
  • Enhanced Interlocking Tower paths for those locations that have EITs
To display the location data click the Location Index graphic here or in the text below, or go to the bottom of the page for all the session links (links will open in this window).
Duration: 3 hours
Loco: SAR T 197 at Terowie Station Sidings

Other Unrostered Locos:

  • SAR T 23 on Peterborough Depot Siding 1
  • SAR T 231 at Terowie Depot
  • SAR T 233 on Peterborough Depot Loco Road 1
  • SAR 407 on Peterborough Depot Repair Shop Road 4
Consist: Attached to SAR T 197. 3 Kuranda BL1 coaches

Getting Started:

  1. The first step is to pause the session by pressing the P key.
  2. Next locate your loco. Either:-
    1. Open the Finder (press CTRL-F) and type, in the name field, the name of the loco. For example SAR T 197 (or just T 197 should be enough). Click the tick icon, OR
    2. Open the Driver List (bottom left of the screen) and select the loco from there - click the drivers Eye icon to jump to the loco.
  3. Take a few moments to get your bearings. Use the Location Index (this link will open in this window) and click on Terowie to load its location details and track plans. The Error creating thumbnail: /bin/bash: line 1: /usr/bin/convert: No such file or directory Error code: 127 tab will give you the EIT Paths that are available if you wish to use them. The Error creating thumbnail: /bin/bash: line 1: /usr/bin/convert: No such file or directory Error code: 127 tab will give you the location and names of the invisible Track Marks for Drive To commands. The Error creating thumbnail: /bin/bash: line 1: /usr/bin/convert: No such file or directory Error code: 127 tab will show the names and locations of all active industries and their commodities. The Error creating thumbnail: /bin/bash: line 1: /usr/bin/convert: No such file or directory Error code: 127 tab will give the names and locations of all junction switches as well as some switch sets you may want to use.
  4. Each location page has a direct link to the next location page, in all directions, so you can explore along the route.
  5. When you are ready to start, reload the Peterborough Base Session page (click the Scenarios button on your current location page) and select this Scenario again or just use the Back button on your browser - whichever is quicker.
  6. Switch back to TRS19 Driver and press the P key to start the session.
Tasks:
  1. Shunt train into the narrow gauge platform at Terowie.
  2. Proceed according to the timetable.
Terowie dep 08:05
Peterborough dep 08:30
Black Rock dep 08:58
Orroroo dep 09:14
Eurelia arr 09:38 (water)
  dep 09:42
Carrieton arr 09:57 (coal)
  dep 10:07
Moockra dep 10:21
Hammond dep 10:35
Bruce dep 10:49
Quorn arr 11:15
Driving Notes:
Links: All links will open in this window
Scenarios
Session Scenarios List		 Location Index
Location List		 Error creating thumbnail: /bin/bash: line 1: /usr/bin/convert: No such file or directory Error code: 127
Rolling Stock		 Error creating thumbnail: /bin/bash: line 1: /usr/bin/convert: No such file or directory Error code: 127
Active Industries		 Top

This page was created by Trainz user pware in February 2021 and was last updated as shown below.

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