page_title: Mount Gambier railway line
section_title: Kingston to Naracoorte
hierarchical_section_title: Mount Gambier railway line / History / Kingston to Naracoorte
caption_attribution_description: English: S.A.R. V class entered service 1877 on Naracoorte-Kingston railway. Built by Beyer, Peacock and Company of Manchester, England. Transferred to northern division in 1888 until 1953. On display in Naracoorte since 1955.
context_page_description: The Mount Gambier railway line was a railway line on the South Australian Railways network. Opened in stages from 1881, it was built to narrow gauge and joined Mount Gambier railway station, which was at that time the eastern terminus of a line to Beachport. It connected at Naracoorte to another isolated narrow gauge line joining Naracoorte to Kingston SE, and to the broad gauge Adelaide-Wolseley line at Wolseley, at around the same time that was extended to Serviceton to become the South Australian part of the Melbourne–Adelaide railway. There has been regular calls for its standardisation between Wolseley and Heywood since its closure over the past two decades, which was complicated by the severing of the two lines in 2015 and being located in separate states.
context_section_description: An isolated line was authorised by the South-Eastern Railway Act in 1871 and completed in 1876 from the port at Kingston SE inland via Lucindale to Naracoorte as narrow gauge. For the first six months after the line was completed, no locomotives were available, so wagons on the line were towed by horses. It was converted to broad gauge with a new terminus one kilometre east of Kingston, on the edge of the port township in 1957. It closed on 28 November 1987.
caption: V class locomotive on display in Naracoorte
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