The Islington Railway Workshops, known in the former South Australian Railways as Islington Works, are railway workshops in the northern suburbs of Adelaide, South Australia, on the western boundary o
Islington workshops, where large numbers of locomotives and rolling stock were designed and built from 1883. Photo taken between 1915 and 1927, before the encroachment of Adelaide's suburbs.
A larger erecting shop was built in 1902. This building was where the South Australian Railways assembled locomotives and rolling stock.
A fuel tank car of which many were built from 1929
A 620 class locomotive, which went into service in 1936, was a light passenger locomotive. It was one of several classes of steam engines designed and built at Islington Workshops.
The Redhen railcars was the nickname given to the 300 and 400 classes of diesel-hydraulic railcars designed by the South Australian Railways and built at its Islington Railway Workshops between 1955 a
Islington Railway Workshops
…18 Bluebird railcars 111 Redhen railcars 9 RL class diesel locomotives…
A typical 3-car Red Hen consist in original livery at the National Railway Museum, Port Adelaide: 400 class double-ended power car no. 400, 860 class trailer no. 875, and a 300 class single-ended power car no. 321
SAR 400 class railcar interior
Two double-ended 400 class Red Hens working a Belair line service in 1990
Cab of 402 at the South Gippsland Railway