Sulphide Street railway station
Sulphide Street | |
|---|---|
 The station building, by then a museum, in 2007 | |
| General information | |
| Location | Blende Street, Broken Hill |
| Coordinates | 31°57′33″S 141°27′40″E / 31.9591°S 141.4610°E |
| Owned by | Silverton Tramway Company (1889–1970) |
| Line(s) | Silverton Tramway Tarrawingee Tramway |
| Construction | |
| Structure type | Ground |
| Other information | |
| Status | Re-purposed to museum |
| History | |
| Opened | 2 January 1889 |
| Closed | 9 January 1970 |
| Rebuilt | 1905 |
Sulphide Street railway station, in the city of Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia, was the eastern terminus of the Silverton Tramway. The "tramway" was a narrow-gauge railway built by the private Silverton Tramway Company to circumvent a political stand-off: the New South Wales Government refused to allow the South Australian Government to extend 58 kilometres (36 miles) into the state beyond the 351 kilometres (218 miles) line that took ore concentrates from the state border to smelters at Port Pirie.[1]
History
[edit]Sulphide Street station opened, with a timber station building, on 2 January 1889. In 1905, the present stone-and-brick building was built.[2][3] From 1891 until 1929 Sulphide Street was also served by the Tarrawingee Tramway. The station closed on 9 January 1970 when the Silverton Tramway was replaced by a new standard-gauge line to South Australia via Broken Hill station.[4][5][6][1]
The station reopened in the late 1970s as a museum.[1] Among the exhibits are company locomotives Y1 and W24, South Australian Railways T181, and a New South Wales Government Railways Silver City Comet multple-unit railcar. The station appears in the cult 1971 film, Wake in Fright.[6][7]
References
[edit]- ^ a b c Roberts, Lew (1995). Rails to Wealth. Melbourne: Lew Roberts. ISBN 0-646-26587-3.
- ^ The Sulphide Street Station Barrier Miner 14 June 1905
- ^ The New Railway Station Barrier Miner 26 August 1905
- ^ Sulphide Street Station NSWrail.net
- ^ Broken Hill Railway Precinct NSW Environment & Heritage
- ^ a b McNicol, Steve (1981). Silverton Tramway Locomotives. Elizabeth Downs: Railmac Publications. p. 6. ISBN 0-959415-30-0.
- ^ Sulphide Street Railway & Historical Museum Discover Broken Hill
External links
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Media related to Sulphide Street station at Wikimedia Commons