Pt Augusta railway bridge |
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| Title : | Pt Augusta railway bridge |
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| Creator : | Wenmouth, Bernice M.; photographer | ||
| Source : | The Wenmouth Collection : Port Augusta | ||
| Date of creation : | ca. 1957 | ||
| Format : | Photograph | ||
| Contributor : | State Library of South Australia | ||
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| Description : |
A train on the jetty at Port Augusta As the nearest town and port to the Outback of South Australia, Port Augusta played an integral role in the development of the north. Besides being an outlet for the wool clip and later the wheat harvest from the adjacent regions, it was also the port to which the supplies for the building of the Overland Telegraph Line and later the northern railway were delivered. Once built the railways became the main reason for the port's continued existence as the coal needed by the trains was imported through Port Augusta.
Between 1913 and 1917, a 2,000 km long east-west transcontinental railway (the Trans-Australian Railway) was built from Port Augusta to Kalgoorlie in Western Australia. This linked Western Australian with the eastern states. Port Augusta was officially closed as a port in 1974. |
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| Coverage year : | 1957 |
| Place : | Pt Augusta |
| Further reading : | Burke, David, Road through the wilderness: the story of the transcontinental railway, the first great work of Australia's federation Kensington, N.S.W.: New South Wales University Press, c1991 Anderson, R. J. Solid town: the history of Port Augusta [Port Augusta, S. Aust.]: R.J. Anderson, 1988 Blainey, Geoffrey, The tyranny of distance: how distance shaped Australia's history Melbourne; London [etc.]: Macmillan, 1974, 1975 |
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