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
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
Larrimah is a remote town and locality in the Northern Territory of Australia, approximately 431 kilometres southeast of the territorial capital of Darwin and 158 kilometres southeast of the municipal
North Australia Railway
…gauge railway in the Northern Territory of Australia which ran from the territory capital of Darwin, once known as Palmerston, to Birdum, just south of Larrimah. Initially its name was the Palmerston and Pine Creek Railway. The first section was opened 1889, the last in 1929. The railway closed in 1976. Between…
The Big Stubby located outside Larrimah Hotel
A workshop constructed at Larrimah during World War II, c. 1940s
Two Army servicemen in Larrimah during World War II, c. 1940s