South Australian Railways Bluebird railcar
The Bluebird railcars were a class of self-propelled diesel-hydraulic railcar built by the South Australian Railways' Islington Railway Workshops between 1954 and 1959.
Bluebird 252 "Blue Wren" at Millicent, July 1983
Preserved Bluebird no. 257 operating at the National Railway Museum, Port Adelaide, 2021
Interior of a South Australian Railways 'Bluebird' railcar (250 class second-class passenger power car)
Bluebird 257 stopped at Jacketts siding, the National Railway Museum's station for broad gauge trains before it was demolished for the Port Dock extension project
South Australian Railways
South Australian Railways (SAR) was the statutory corporation through which the Government of South Australia built and operated railways in South Australia from 1854 until March 1978, when its non-urban railways were incorporated into Australian National, and its Adelaide urban lines were transferred to the State Transport Authority.
Y71 steam locomotive on display at the Western Australian Rail Transport Museum
The horsedrawn Goolwa to Port Elliot railway, in 1860
William Webb, who transformed South Australian Railways in the 1920s
A 500 class locomotive introduced by Webb to haul heavy trains over the Adelaide Hills