Adelaide River is a small but historically significant town located at the crossing of the Stuart Highway over the Adelaide River in the Northern Territory of Australia. The town is upstream of the Ad
View overlooking the town of Adelaide River.
Entrance to Adelaide River War Cemetery
North Australia Railway
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The North Australia Railway was a 509 km 1,067 mm narrow gauge railway in the Northern Territory of Australia which ran from the territory capital of Darwin, once known as Palmerston, to Birdum, just
Adelaide River, Northern Territory
…importance of the area as an overnight stop for travellers. The first police station in the town was constructed in 1879. Prior to the construction of the railway to Pine Creek, the Adelaide River crossing was the overnight stopping point for the Haimes Royal Mail Coach which linked Southport with the goldfields…
The former station at Adelaide River, on the Stuart Highway, is now a museum housing locomotives, rolling stock and memorabilia
Commonwealth Railways narrow-gauge steam locomotive NF5, preserved at Pine Creek Railway Precinct, was built by Beyer, Peacock and Company in 1877 for the South Australian Railways as W class locomotive no. 53. It was sold to contractors for construction of the Central Australia Railway and two lines on Eyre Peninsula (being re-purchased each time by the SAR), and the Palmerston and Pine Creek Railway, on which it stayed.
One of very few remnants of the North Australia Railway in Darwin is a platform in the suburb of Winnellie
Men built narrow-gauge lines of the Northern Territory and South Australia without benefit of the mechanisation their successors enjoyed when building the standard-gauge lines a century later