08. Abminga siding |
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| Title : | 08. Abminga siding |
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| Creator : | Mountford, Charles P., photographer | ||
| Date of creation : | 1938 | ||
| Format : | Photograph | ||
| Dimensions : | 60 x 60 mm | ||
| Contributor : | State Library of South Australia | ||
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| Description : |
Abminga railway siding. Taken at 3.30am, 20 August 1938, the siding is illuminated by the light of the train as it stands at the station. After a journey lasting almost two days, Mountford and the other members of the expedition party arrived at their final stop, the Abminga siding. The guards woke them and they piled off the train. Their luggage and equipment was unloaded, and left by the side of the track. The train remained at the siding for about an hour and a quarter, during which time Mountford took this photograph. He wrote of it in his diary;
The party remained at the siding until after sunrise when they commenced their journey to Mount Dare Station. |
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| Coverage year : | 1938 |
| Place : | Abminga |
| Region : | Flinders Ranges and Far North - Outback |
| Further reading : | Connell, Gordon. The mystery of Ludwig Leichhardt. Carlton, Vic. : Melbourne University Press, 1980 Lamshed, Max. 'Monty' : the biography of C.P. Mountford, Adelaide : Rigby, 1972, pp. 56-60 Mountford, Charles P. 'Papers relating to the South Australian Government Expedition to search for the remains of explorer Ludwig Leichhardt', PRG 1218/9 Newell, Brian R. Following the Old Ghan railway line 1878-1980, Aldinga Beach, S. Aust. : Brian, R. Newell, 2000 Price, A. Grenfell. The Mystery of Leichhardt : the South Australian government expedition of 1938, South Australia : Royal Geographical Society, 1937-38 Roderick, Colin. Leichhardt, the dauntless explorer, North Ryde, N.S.W. : Angus & Robertson, 1988 Stewien, Ronald. A history of the South Australian Railways. Volume 1, The early years / 1st ed. Melbourne : Australian Railway Historical Society, Victorian Division, 2007 |
| Internet links : | Australian Dictionary of Biography - Friedrich Wilhelm Ludwig Leichhardt Flinders Ranges Research. South Australian railway history National Museum of Australia. Leichhardt: the man, the mystery, the science, the history [symposium held in 2007] |
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