Tailem Bend to Pinnaroo Railway Line
Channel: Outdoorstype
Date: 26/07/2022

Hop on board and join me as I follow the route of the old Pinnaroo railway line. The Pinnaroo railway line ran east from the Adelaide to Melbourne line at Tailem Bend to Pinnaroo near the South Australian / Victorian state border. It continued into Victoria to Ouyen where it joined the Mildura line.

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The line opened from Tailem Bend to Pinnaroo in 1906 before being extended to the border in 1915.

Fun fact: When the Adelaide to Wolseley line closed east of Tailem Bend for gauge conversion in 1995 and the Pinnaroo line became part of the main line between Adelaide and Melbourne for two weeks.

The line west of Pinnaroo was converted from broad gauge to standard gauge in 1998.

The line closed in July 2015 when the grain freight switched to road transport. Somewhat ironically, as the South Australian line closed, the Victorian government was upgrading part of its end of the line for regional freight to Murrayville.

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Image credits: 

State Library of South Australia:

Railway Station, Tailem Bend [B 39191] 1920
Railway and cottages at Tailem Bend [B 62432] 1905
Visitors with their car at Polly's Well, Peake [B 59249] 1924

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