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QUORN
24th April 2010
Headed off Anzac Weekend hooking up the van Saturday
Morning to Pt Augusta Big 4. After setting the van up in the caravan park we headed to Quorn to check the Pichi Richi Railway Society at the
Station, but the tourist train had already ran for the day and learnt there is a special Anzac Train the next day on Anzac Day.
Next day Anzac Day Sun the 25th knowing there is a special troop reinactment train ran
by the Pichi Richi Society at 14.30. We arrived at Quorn about 1pm to check the former SAR Workshops before heading back to the Station
Pics by Barry Simmons
Track heading south out of yard
Weigh Bridge&Goods Shed
Quorn Station
Track heading North
Weigh Bridge close up
Weigh Bridge & Goods Shed
Quorn Goods Shed
Weigh Bridge Goods Shed with station in between
Quorn Station Track Side.
Quorn Station Street Side.
The next day Anzac Day Sunday the 25th knowing there is a special troop
re-enactment train ran by the Pichi Richi Society at 14.30 we arrived at Quorn about 1pm to check the former SAR Workshops before heading back to the Station.
After the Workshop visit at around 2pm got to
the Quorn Station to catch up with the commemorative Anzac Troop Train due to leave at 2.30pm but didn't leave till 2.50pm this train is the Pichi Richi Explorer which run from Quorn to Woolshed Flat and back.
Quorn Railway Workshops
Quorn Railway Workshops Brill railcar
Station to Workshop W class 934 engine with
305 Barwell Bull Trailer, just before entering
the workshop the engine is going backwards
W934 with trailer 305 entering the workshop
area with engine going backwards.
W934 steam hooked to 305 Barwell Bull trailer
at Quorn Workshops.
Carriages waiting for Engine and
troop vehicles loading hook up.
W934 with 305 trailer doing shuttles from workshop
to the Quorn Station.
NT76 Diesel with troop vehicles on flat tops
at freight platform
Troop Vehicles all loaded
NT76 Diesel completed shunting to the front of the
carriages now. The engine well leave the troop
vehicles in front of the carriages waiting for
W class 22 Justin Hancock Steam Engine to hook up
Information Board
W934 with railcar trailer 305 entering station yard.
W934 with railcar trailer 305 arrived at station
NT76 diesel with troop vehicles shunting
from freight loading to the front of carriages.
W class 22 Justin Hancock hooked up now
all hooked up now
W class 22 Justin Hancock hooked up now
Fireman getting aboard W class 22 Justin Hancock.
W class 22 Justin Hancock hooked up now
Okay, the lad looked like he wanted to be
in the picture, so this will may make his day.
W22
leaving Quorn
(5.85megs) (320 x 240) (520Kb/Sec)
W934 with brill Trailer.
(2.88megs) (320 x 240) (520Kb/Sec)
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PORT
AUGUSTA
Pichi
Richi Railways Quorn to Port Augusta uses Narrow Gauge one
side and Standard Gauge uses the other side.
Pics by Barry Simmons
Narrow Gauge side Pichi Richi Train uses this side
Standard Gauge other side
Standard Gauge Side
Station with the locals
Station looking east
Platform looking west
Platform looking west with end of narrow gauge
Front of Port Augusta station
Front of Port Augusta station
Pichi
Richi Railway at Port Augusta on YouTube by alco961
Saturday
in Port Augusta, we Pichi Richi Railway members
preparing their train for The Afghan Express, running to
Quorn & returning late afternoon. Here we then shunt
NM 25 on the consist to be transported back to Quorn for
repairs. Pichi Richi Railway (The Railway is run by
Volunteers) where members come from all walks of
life to help keep the oldest part of the Great Northern
narrow Railway for future generation to enjoy.
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PICHI
RICHI RAILWAY
Sunday the 24th of September, 2006 and the legendary Coffee Pot in steam and operating, so a day trip to Quorn was the order of the day.
Leaving home, the first encounter of mainline action was Train No 6SP7 hauled by NR25 and NR103 seen at Crystal Brook.
We push on to Port Augusta and with the majestic Flinders Ranges in the background make a right turn at Stirling North and thus leave the main line action for the more important quest of the day –
Coffee Pot in steam at Pichi Richi Railway, Quorn, SA.
The remainder of the day was spent at Pichi Richi with the Coffee Pot; officially Steam Motor Coach #1 (recorded as NJAB #1 by the Commonwealth Railways) and from the early 1900’s was used on services based out of Quorn SA
A quaint and dinky steam locomotive / steam motor coach was sighted steaming away in the Quorn yard, awaiting passengers to board for their trip to Woolshed Flat.
Pics
by (Greg O'Brien)
Coffee Pot at Quorn
Coffee Pot Quorn station.
Coffee Pot arrives Summit.
W22 Pitchi Richi
W22 passes Pichi Richi.
W22 crosses Coffee Pot at Summit.
Coffee Pot departs Summit.
Coffee
Pot
sets off and is photographed along the way and is put into the siding at Summit.
W22 is sighted near Woolshed Flat and then observed taking the cross with the Coffee Pot at Summit. Coffee Pot departs and then stops at a nearby property for a luncheon appointment for the weary passengers; in the meantime W22 has arrived at Quorn.
W22 Arrived Quorn.
Following lunch, the Coffee Pot departs and heads off at a diminutive pace for Woolshed Flat amidst the might of and sometimes dwarfed by the enormity of the Flinders Ranges. Woolshed Flat is reached and the Coffee Pot is turned on the ‘Y’. Passengers alight until the call is made to board for their return run to Quorn.
Coffee Pot enroute to Woolshed Flat.
Coffee Pot turned on Wye Woolshed Flat.
Coffee Pot Woolshed Flat.
Coffee Pot Woolshed Flat.
Coffee Pot.
Coffee Pot.
The return journey from Quorn was at a leisurely pace and the main line offered Train No 7MP9 hauled by G538 and a couple of other G class locomotives at Winninowie.
End of the day, it was a great sight to have witnessed SMC #1 in action, in steam, in sunlight and in reality – enjoyment.
The Coffee Pot Video
on YouTube by Alco961
As seen on State Affair Channel 7 1984.
Coffee Pot - Driver: Hayden Hart, Fireman: Mark Grimshaw, Loco Inspector: Bill
Bennett.
The Pichi Richi Railway Preservation Society is an entirely voluntary organisation dedicated to the
preservation of Australia's most ambitious operating railway museum. Railway workshops and operations are based at Quorn in South Australia's Flinders Ranges. The steam coach was built at Leeds, England, in 1905, and is the only one of its type left in the world today.
It operated between Quorn and Port Augusta and Quorn and Hawker until 1928 when it was retired.
