A series on South Australian Rail (known as SAR) sidings/stations infrastructure that have closed along many of the mainlines and branch lines that once opened the state’s regions.
Placed on walking/bike tracks where the disused rail corridors have been converted for public use.
Branch line Tailem Bend to Bamera
History
The Barmera railway line was the second railway built to develop the Murray Valley region of South Australia, in 1913. It followed the success of the Pinnaroo Railway Line in 1906. Both lines branched east from Tailem Bend. The Brown's Well line was the more northerly and extended into country which had not been developed much before the railway, partly due to the absence of any viable transport route for produce. The original terminus of the Brown's Well railway was at Meriba, not far from the Victorian border.
Almost as soon as the railway to the Brown's Well district had been completed to Meribah (May 1913), it was extended 40 miles (64 km) north to the Murray River at Paringa. The extension was approved before the original length had been completed, with an additional cost estimate of £135,750 to serve an additional 296,000 acres (1,200 km2). The official opening to Paringa was on 2 October 1913. The intervention of World War 1 delayed the construction of the Paringa Bridge to extend the railway to Renmark until 1927. It later was also extended to Bamera with the first passenger service running on 1 August 1928.
This line included the following sidings/stations Naturi, Kulde, Wynarka, Wingmin, Karoonda, Lowalde, Borrika, Kilpalie, Sandalwood, Halidon, Mindarie, Wanbi, Piltenge, Cobera, Alawoona, Malpas, Paruna, Meribah, Nadda, Taplan, Nangari, Pungonda, Noora, Ingalta, Taldra, Yamba, Wonuarra, Paringa, Renmark, Calperum, Spring Cart Gully, Berri, Karoom, Glossop and Bamera.
Status the line is closed and in a dormant condition from Tailem Bend to Alawoona. The track from Alawoona to Bamera has been removed.
Wynarka
Native for a strayer
Owner froghoppin
Beta testers Mattycat and the Kellygang