The Balaklava–Moonta railway line was a railway line on the South Australian Railways network. It ran across the top of the Yorke Peninsula.
Moonta railway station, the original terminus of the line, 2016
Hoyleton, South Australia
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Hoyleton is a former railway town in South Australia, west of the Clare Valley, halfway between Leasingham and Halbury.
Balaklava–Moonta railway line
…horse-drawn tramway was constructed to deliver grain from the plains east of Port Wakefield in the areas of Balaklava, Halbury and Hoyle's Plains (now Hoyleton) to that port. It opened in 1869. The section from Hoyleton to Balaklava eventually became part of the Hamley Bridge-Gladstone railway line when that…
Original goods shed, built in the 1870s
Grain storage that is no longer in use
Disused church
Looking west towards Hoyleton from Mt. George Road