page_title: Port Broughton, South Australia
section_title: Transport
hierarchical_section_title: Port Broughton, South Australia / Transport
caption_attribution_description: The end of the 'T'-shaped jetty at Port Broughton, South Australia
context_page_description: Port Broughton is a small South Australian town located at the northern extent of the Yorke Peninsula on the east coast of Spencer Gulf. It is situated about 170 km north-west of Adelaide, and 56 km south of Port Pirie. At the 2011 census, the town of Port Broughton had a population of 1,034.
  The close proximity to Adelaide makes it a popular tourist destination, with the number of people in town swelling to over 4000 in the summer holidays.
context_section_description: Built in 1876, the 'T'-shaped jetty was serviced by an isolated 3 ft 6 in (1,067 mm) narrow gauge railway line from Mundoora, 16 km inland and uphill.  The Port Broughton railway line, officially opened on 11 March 1876, brought the grain down to the port.  Horses were used to tow the empty wagons uphill, but they were sent downhill powered only by gravity, with a driver to operate the brakes.  The passenger service ceased on 17 September 1925, but the grain traffic continued.  During January, 1926, a Fordson rail tractor displaced the animal power.  From 1931, the railways contracted out the service to a private operator.
  The service ceased altogether on 3 August 1942, but the tractor continued to shunt wheat wagons between the station yard and the jetty until moved elsewhere.  Ketches carried the grain from the jetty 8 kilometres out into the gulf where the larger windjammers were anchored to carry the grain back to England.  The windjammers ceased to call in 1949.
  Locomotives were proposed in 1906.
caption: The face of the 'T'-shaped jetty at Port Broughton
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