Rail transport in South Australia
The first railway in colonial South Australia was a line from the port of Goolwa on the River Murray to an ocean harbour at Port Elliot, which first operated in December 1853, before its completion in May 1854.
Pacific National freight passing Belair in the Adelaide Hills
FreightLink Adelaide to Darwin freight train at Dry Creek
After decades of closures of the former South Australian Railways' intrastate routes, the last in broad gauge was the limestone service from Penrice quarry to Osborne, which ceased in 2014. Nine years before that, in 2005, a loaded train from Penrice is at Birkenhead, hauled by Australian Railroad Group broad-gauge locomotives 704 and 904.
TransAdelaide 3000 class railcar as used on Adelaide suburban services
The Eyre Peninsula is a triangular peninsula in South Australia. It is bounded by the Spencer Gulf on the east, the Great Australian Bight on the west, and the Gawler Ranges to the north.
Near Lipson Cove
Banded iron formation, South Middleback Range, Eyre Peninsula. Orangish-brown = quartz mixed with limonite. Silvery-gray = hematite.
Unusual herringbone crystals of evaporite gypsum, from Sinclairs Gap Lake, Middleback Range, Eyre Peninsula. Size: 10.8 x 9.8 x 6.0 cm.
Cage-diving with great white sharks is possible for tourists off Eyre Peninsula.
