..... my current place near Orroroo, South Australia and am moving to Peterborough, about some 50 km away from here. As it is also my birthday today, I hope the new place in Peterborough I am moving to gives me a good start to my next chapter in life.
Got you there for a moment
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Those familiar with South Australia know there is a lot of past railway history in and with Peterborough or Petersburg as it was known in the past. It was THE country/central hub for railway activity in South Australia and still boasts the largest locomotive roundhouse in the Southern Hemisphere (albeit not used anymore as such).
Where bogies got changed from broad gauge to others and back when SA had different track gauges in the past and when the old country rail network still existed. It was also the start of the Peterborough to Hawker rail route, now sadly forgotten and its tracks and sleepers all ripped up and all signs of past railway activity removed. Peterborough in the past was also one of the largest railway community towns in SA. Now it is a "Sleepy Hollow" of some 2000 people or so still living there.
Now of course with diesel trains only running past Peterborough from Sydney to wherever, ore trains moving back and forth from Broken Hill etc. and huge freight trains moving up and down the line, not one of the above trains stop anymore in Peterborough. The Indian Pacific just fleetingly, in an instant, rushing past the old railway station where it used to stop for passenger pickup and where people used to mingle, interested to get the newest gossip from the big smoke.
The railway station in Peterborough now sitting there neglected and run down, it brings a tear to the eyes of those who can still remember its past steam days glory and activity there. Not far away, just 17 km up the now ripped up track is Terowie, another bustling steam era town in the past, now just a forgotten speck on the road map. Only some hundred (if at all) residents there now living there, some of you might remember some of the old, now most of these closed down Terowie shops, pub and other scenery items I created for TRS04 in the past.
That is "progress". Sad really.
Cheers
VinnyBarb
Got you there for a moment
.Those familiar with South Australia know there is a lot of past railway history in and with Peterborough or Petersburg as it was known in the past. It was THE country/central hub for railway activity in South Australia and still boasts the largest locomotive roundhouse in the Southern Hemisphere (albeit not used anymore as such).
Where bogies got changed from broad gauge to others and back when SA had different track gauges in the past and when the old country rail network still existed. It was also the start of the Peterborough to Hawker rail route, now sadly forgotten and its tracks and sleepers all ripped up and all signs of past railway activity removed. Peterborough in the past was also one of the largest railway community towns in SA. Now it is a "Sleepy Hollow" of some 2000 people or so still living there.
Now of course with diesel trains only running past Peterborough from Sydney to wherever, ore trains moving back and forth from Broken Hill etc. and huge freight trains moving up and down the line, not one of the above trains stop anymore in Peterborough. The Indian Pacific just fleetingly, in an instant, rushing past the old railway station where it used to stop for passenger pickup and where people used to mingle, interested to get the newest gossip from the big smoke.
The railway station in Peterborough now sitting there neglected and run down, it brings a tear to the eyes of those who can still remember its past steam days glory and activity there. Not far away, just 17 km up the now ripped up track is Terowie, another bustling steam era town in the past, now just a forgotten speck on the road map. Only some hundred (if at all) residents there now living there, some of you might remember some of the old, now most of these closed down Terowie shops, pub and other scenery items I created for TRS04 in the past.
That is "progress". Sad really.
Cheers
VinnyBarb
