South Australian Railways

Former railways agency in South Australia

Not to be confused with South Australian Railway Company or South African Railways.

South Australian Railways

Industry| Railway owner, operator and manufacturer
Founded| 1854
Defunct| 28 February 1978
Fate| Sold to the Australian federal government
Successor| Australian National Railways Commission, trading as Australian National
Headquarters|

Adelaide

Australia

Area served

| South Australia
Parent| Government of South Australia

South Australian Railways (SAR) was the organisation 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.

The SAR's tracks were built to three rail gauges: 1600 mm (5 ft 3 in) broad gauge; 1067 mm (3 ft 6 in) narrow gauge; and from the 1980s, when gauge standardisation at last commenced, 1435 mm (4 ft 8+1⁄2 in) standard gauge.

## History

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Y71 steam locomotive on display at the Western Australian Rail Transport Museum The horsedrawn Goolwa to Port Elliot railway, in 1860

### Colonial period

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The first railway in South Australia was laid in 1854 between Goolwa and Port Elliot to allow for goods to be transferred between paddle steamers on the Murray River and seagoing vessels. The Goolwa station was built on the Wharf precinct, alongside the River Murray.[1]

The next railway was laid from the harbour at Port Adelaide, to the capital, Adelaide, and was laid with Irish gauge 5 ft 3 in (1,600 mm) track. This line was opened in 1856. Later on, branch lines in the state's north in the mining towns of Kapunda and Burra were linked through to the Adelaide metropolitan system. From here, a south main line extended to meet the horse tramway from Victor Harbor to Strathalbyn, and towards the South Australia/Victoria Border.

The metropolitan lines were built to broad gauge, but the mid north and south-east of the state were laid with 1067 mm (3 ft 6 in) narrow-gauge track. These systems were closely based on British practice, as was the broad gauge system prior to 1926. Locomotives and rolling stock were bought from the United Kingdom and United States, from builders such as Beyer, Peacock & Company, Dübs and Company, North British Locomotive Company, and Baldwin Locomotive Works.

### Rehabilitation

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William Webb, who transformed South Australian Railways in the 1920s

In 1922, after the SAR's worst financial deficit, the government appointed American railroad manager William Webb, from the Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railroad as Chief Commissioner. When Webb arrived in Adelaide with his young family, he found a railway system unchanged since the latter decades of the 19th century. The locomotives and rolling stock were small, wagons and carriages were of wooden construction, the track and bridges were unsuitable for heavy loads, the workshops had antiquated machinery and the signalling system was inflexible. These attributes drove up the ratio of operating costs to revenue.

Webb introduced a rehabilitation plan based on American railroad principles of large, standardised locomotives and steel-bodied freight cars, with automatic "knuckle" couplers (replacing hook-and-chain) to enable a significant increase in productivity. Lightly patronised passenger trains were replaced by self-propelled railcars, enabling faster, more frequent and more efficient services. He recruited young engineer Fred Shea as his chief mechanical engineer and had him prepare specifications for this new equipment. This resulted in orders being placed for 1200 freight cars of four types from American Car and Foundry and 30 locomotives based on American Locomotive Company designs but built by Armstrong Whitworth & Co in the United Kingdom. These were of the Mountain, Pacific and Mikado wheel arrangements, 10 of each type, which became the 500, 600, and 700 class locomotives.[2][3] At the same time, 12 petrol-mechanical railcars from the Service Motors Corporation, Wabash, Indiana were ordered, to provide services more cheaply than by locomotive-hauled trains.[4]: 219 [note 1]

To carry the heavier trains, the rehabilitation plan included the strengthening of track and bridges, and the conversion of the Mid North narrow gauge system (the Western division) to broad gauge. The antiquated Islington Railway Workshops were demolished and replaced with a modern railway maintenance and manufacturing works; a large new roundhouse was built at Mile End, near Adelaide; and several 26 metres (85 feet) turntables were installed throughout the state to enable the much larger locomotives to be turned. Efficient train operations were facilitated by the adoption of American train order working on country lines, and Adelaide railway station was replaced with an imposing new building, opened in 1927.[2] This grand building has been partially taken over by the Adelaide Casino.

A 500 class locomotive introduced by Webb to haul heavy trains over the Adelaide Hills

When the two shiploads of new locomotives arrived in 1926 they caused a sensation with the public and throughout the railway industry in Australia. The 500 class "Mountain" was more than twice the size of the biggest pre-Webb engine, and was for a time the most powerful locomotive in Australia. Henceforth, double heading broad-gauge trains became a rarity in South Australia. The massive locomotives were unloaded at Port Adelaide and taken off the pier by horses (the locomotives' weight alone exceeded the dock's maximum loading capacity). Apart from some initial teething problems, the new locomotives settled in well to their assigned roles. After the success of the original locomotives, ten more 700 class locomotives, with larger tenders, were built using the facilities of the new Islington Workshops. They were the 710 class.[2]

The 500 class was rated to haul 410 tonnes (400 long tons; 450 short tons) over the Mount Lofty Ranges immediately east of Adelaide, where a 31 kilometres (19 miles) continuous 1-in-45 (2.2%) gradient faced trains heading for Victoria. Two years after their introduction, the class was modified by the addition of a booster engine which required replacement of the two-wheel trailing truck with a four-wheel truck. This altered the wheel arrangement from 4-8-2 "Mountains" to 4-8-4 "Northerns", but the public had been imbued with the old term and it stuck. Reclassified as the 500B class, their maximum load to Mount Lofty was increased to 600 tonnes (590 long tons; 660 short tons) or eleven passenger cars. In the pre-Webb era the most powerful locomotive, the 4-6-0 Rx class, was rated at 190 tons for this line, and three of them were needed to lift the heavy Melbourne Express, two at the front and one banking from the rear.[5]: 4, 11, 15–16

The broad-gauge system was the main focus of Webb's rehabilitation scheme. The narrow gauge systems north of Terowie and on the Eyre Peninsula remained untouched, as did the narrow-gauge South Eastern division (although it was subsequently converted to broad gauge in the early 1950s).

Webb decided not to extend his contract in 1930 and returned to the US, having revolutionised the SAR.

### Post-Depression period

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In 1936, the SAR owned 365 locomotives, 51 railcars, 408 passenger carriages, 38 brake vans and 8,219 goods wagons.[6] The following year, ten 620 class 4-6-2 Pacific type locomotives, designed and built at the SAR's Islington Works – were introduced. Their axle load enabled them to traverse the many rural lines laid with 60-pound rail, but they were also usefully deployed on the East-West Express between Adelaide and Port Pirie following the extension of the broad gauge line north from Redhill to Port Pirie in 1937.[3][failed verification]

Other additions to the locomotive fleet after the Depression included the 2-8-4 720 class, a further development of the 700/710 class locomotives, and the 520 class, a 4-8-4 locomotive, externally styled after the Pennsylvania Railroad T1; it had the same light axle load as the 620 class but a 30% higher tractive effort, achieving higher speeds on all mainline passenger services.

In 1949, the diesel era started, tentatively, with two Bo-Bo 350 class shunting locomotives, designed and built by Islington Works and incorporating British components.[7]

The SAR 900 class diesel-electric locomotive, built by the SAR and designed particularly for the demanding Adelaide Hills route, entered service in 1951

Two years later, the SAR's first mainline diesel-electric locomotives entered service: the 900 class, also designed and built by Islington Railway Workshops. Their styling closely followed that of the Alco PA diesels in the United States. Subsequently, and coincidentally, the SAR exclusively purchased American Locomotive Company products made under licence in Sydney by AE Goodwin: the 930, 830, 600 and 700 classes. In the 1950s, railcars were introduced: the 250 and 100 class "Bluebirds" for regional services and the 300 and 400 class "Red Hens" for Adelaide suburban services.

A major change occurred in 1970, when the remaining 400 kilometres (250 miles) length of the Sydney-Perth rail corridor that was not built to 1435 mm (4 ft 8+1⁄2 in) standard gauge, the Port Pirie-Broken Hill line, was gauge-converted.

In the 1972 election, the Whitlam Federal Government made a commitment to invite the states to hand over their railway systems to the federal government. The Government of South Australia took up the offer, but elected to retain the Adelaide metropolitan services, which were transferred to the State Transport Authority. Financial responsibility for the remaining services passed to the federal government on 1 July 1975, although the SAR continued services until operations were formally transferred on 1 March 1978 to the Australian National Railways Commission.[8]

The penultimate head of the SAR, commissioner Ron Fitch, reflecting on the end of the railway administration, wrote: "The merging of the major part of the SAR into the Australian National Railways Commission, and the remainder into the South Australian State Transport Authority, cannot but tend to consign the former state railway system into eventual oblivion. But posterity should not be allowed to forget its achievements:

* The Goolwa to Port Elliot railway, the first public railway in Australia.
* The first publicly owned railway in the British Empire; that between Adelaide and Port Adelaide.
* The Darwin to Pine Creek and the Port Augusta to Oodnadatta railways, built ... as part of the grand concept of a north-south transcontinental rail link.
* Its gesture, together with the gentlemen of the Silverton Tramway Company, in providing a rail connection to Broken Hill, at a time when NSW declined to do so.
* The introduction into the Australian railways in the 1920s of large steam locomotive power.
* The installation of the nation's first train control system.
* The design and construction of what were then the world's finest sleeping cars.
* The placing into scheduled service on the mainland of Australia the first mainline diesel-electric locomotive."[9]

## Locomotive and railcar classes

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| Broad gauge steam classes

Class  | Qty  | Builder  | Introduced  | Withdrawn  | Notes
Locos 1‑3 | 3  | Fairbairn | 1856  | 1871–1874  | Locos Adelaide, Victoria and Albert preceded class system;
eventually numbered 1, 2 & 3
A | 3  | Stephenson | 1868, 1873  | 1893–1924  |
B | 2  | Stephenson | 1856, 1858  | 1935, 1938  |
C | 2  | Stephenson | 1856, 1857  | 1906, 1926  |
D | 8  | Stephenson | 1856, 1862–1867  | 1896, 1904, 1932  |
E | 7  | Slaughter, Grüning; Avonside | 1862–1882  | 1886–1929  |
F (1st) | 2  | Avonside | 1869  | 1892  |
F (2nd) | 43  | SAR; Martin; Perry | 1902–1922  | 1956–1968  | [NRM]
G | 8  | Beyer, Peacock | 1869, 1880, 1886  | 1904–1923  |
Ga | 1  | Stephenson | 1899  | 1915[c]  | Bought second-hand; built 1874
Gb | 2  | Stephenson | 1899  | 1904, 1916[c]  | Bought second-hand; built 1874, 1878
Gc | 1  | Stephenson | 1899  | 1905[c]  | Bought second-hand; built 1879
Gd | 2  | Beyer, Peacock | 1899  | 1925[c]  | Bought second-hand; built 1880
Ge | 2  | Beyer, Peacock | 1899  | 1929, 1935 [c]  | Bought second-hand; built 1897
H | 9  | Stephenson | 1870–1877  | 1888–1930  |
I (1st) | 1  | Neilson | 1879  | 1909  | Bought second-hand; built 1873
I (2nd) | 1  | Beyer, Peacock | 1910  | 1929  | Bought second-hand; built 1888
J | 2  | Beyer, Peacock | 1875  | 1932, 1934  |
K | 13  | Beyer, Peacock | 1879–1884  | 1936–1956  |
L | 4  | Beyer, Peacock | 1880  | 1928, 1931  |
M (1st) | 5  | Avonside | 1880, 1881  | 1913–1917  | Bought second-hand; built 1868–1874
M (2nd) | 20  | Phoenix; David Munro & Co.  | 1920–1922  | 1925–1935  | Bought second-hand; built 1889–1894
N | 2  | Baldwin | 1881  | 1925, 1927  |
O (1st) | 2  | Baldwin | 1881  | 1904  |
O (2nd) | 1  | Stephenson | 1912  | 1929  | Bought second-hand; built 1868
P | 20  | Beyer, Peacock; Martin | 1884, 1893  | 1929, 1957  | [NRM]
Q | 22  | Dübs; Martin | 1885, 1892  | 1923, 1956  |
R & Rx | 84  | Dübs; Martin; SAR; North British; Walkers | 1886, 1895, 1916  | 1927–1969  | From 1899, all R class (rebuilds and new builds) became Rx class, denoting Belpaire fireboxes [NRM] [SHR]
S | 18  | Martin | 1893, 1903–1904  | 1942–1960  |
Tx | 78  | SAR; Martin; Walkers | 1903–1917  | 1957–1961  | Five narrow-gauge T class converted from narrow gauge 1929; reverted 1949.
500 | 10  | Armstrong Whitworth | 1926  | 1958–1963  | [NRM]
520 | 12  | SAR | 1943–1947  | 1961–1971  | [NRM] [SHR]
600 | 10  | Armstrong Whitworth | 1926  | 1958–1961  |
620 | 10  | SAR | 1936–1938  | 1963–1969  | [NRM] [SHR]
700 | 10  | Armstrong Whitworth | 1926  | 1962–1968  | [NRM]
710 | 10  | SAR | 1929  | 1962–1968  |
720 | 17  | SAR | 1930–1943  | 1958–1960  |
740 | 10  | Clyde Engineering | 1951–1953  | 1963–1965  |
750 | 10  | North British | 1951  | 1961-1969  | Bought second-hand. [NRM]
Other broad-gauge locomotives purchased by the SAR but not given a classification were as follows:[10]

* nos. 97 and 98: 0-6-0T locos built by Kitson in 1884
* no. 154: 2-4-0T built by Stephenson in 1893, acquired from the Glenelg Railway Company in 1899
* no. 155: 2-4-0T built by Dübs in 1879, acquired from the Grange Railway and Investment Company in 1893.

Notes:
[c] = date condemned; date withdrawn is unknown.
Codes in the Notes column show the locations of preserved examples of classes (operational or on static display) as of 2021[update]:

* [NRM]: National Railway Museum, Port Adelaide
* [SHR]: SteamRanger heritage railway.

| Narrow gauge steam classes

Class  | Qty  | Builder  | Introduced  | Withdrawn  | Notes
300 | 6  | WAGR, VR | 1952  | 1955–1956  | Bought second-hand; built 1943–1945
400 | 10  | Société Franco-Belge | 1952–1953  | 1970  | [NRM]
K | 1  | Dübs | 1884  | 1938  |
T | 78  | SAR, Martin, Walkers | 1903–1917  | ?–1970  | [NRM] [PRR]
U | 8  | Beyer, Peacock | 1876  | 1924–1929  |
V | 8  | Beyer, Peacock; Martin | 1877, 1893  | 1930s, 1940s  |
W & Wx | 35  | Beyer, Peacock | 1877–1882  | 1929, 1959  | From 1903, 18 were rebuilt as Wx class with upgraded boilers.
X | 8  | Baldwin | 1881–1882  | ?–1907  |
Y & Yx | 129  | Beyer, Peacock; SAR; Martin | 1885–1898  | Mainly 1960s  | Between 1904 and 1924, 48 were rebuilt as Yx class with Belpaire fireboxes [NRM] [PRR]
Z | 10  | Martin, SAR | 1895, 1911  | 1956  |
Other narrow-gauge locomotives purchased by the SAR but not given a classification were as follows:[11]

* no. 0: 2-6-2T built by Beyer, Peacock, acquired in exchange (for a V class loco, lasting 9 months) with BHP in 1892
* no. 107: 0-4-0ST (nicknamed Sandfly) built in 1886 by Baldwin, acquired from C. & E. Millar Bros in 1890
* no. 260: 0-4-0T built in 1911 by Hudswell, Clarke & Co. Ltd, acquired from the SA Engineer-in-Chief's Department in 1916.

Notes:
Codes in the Notes column show the locations of preserved examples of classes (operational or on static display) as of 2021[update]:

* [NRM]: National Railway Museum, Port Adelaide
* [PRR]: Pichi Richi Railway.

| Diesel (locomotive and railcar) classes

Class  | Qty  | Gauge  | Builder  | Introduced  | Withdrawn  | Notes
350 | 2  | Broad  | SAR | 1949  | 1979  | [MHRM] [SHR]
500 | 34  | Broad & standard  | SAR | 1964–1969  | Most 1990s  | [NRM] [SHR]
600 | 7  | Standard  | Goodwin | 1965, 1969–1970  | Mainly 1990s  |
700 | 6  | Broad & standard  | Goodwin | 1971–1972  | Mainly 2010s  |
800 | 10  | Broad  | English Electric (NSW)  | 1956–1957  | Early 1990s  | [NRM]
830 | 45  | Broad, standard & narrow  | Goodwin | 1959–1969  | See note  | Includes 7 DA conversions
900 | 10  | Broad  | SAR | 1951–1953  | 1979–1985  | [NRM]
930 | 37  | Broad  | Goodwin | 1955–1967  | Most 1986–1994  | [NRM] [SHR]
Brill Model 55 railcars | 12  | Broad  | Brill[note 2] | 1924, 1925  | 1971?  | [NRM]
Brill Model 75 railcars | 39 power cars, 29 trailers[note 3] | Broad & narrow  | SAR | 1927  | 1971  | [NRM] [PRR] [SHR]
100, 250 & 280 class Bluebird railcars | 21  | Broad & standard  | SAR | 1954–1959  | 1989–1995  | See note. [NRM]
300 & 400 class "Red Hen" railcars | 111  | Broad  | SAR | 1955–1971  | 1996  | [NRM] [SHR]
Notes:
The post-SAR dispositions of diesel locomotives and railcars were very diverse and are not easily summarised. Further details are in the articles.
Codes in the Notes column show the locations of preserved examples of classes (operational or on static display) as of 2021[update]:

* [MHRM]: Milang Historical Railway Museum
* [NRM]: National Railway Museum, Port Adelaide
* [PRR]: Pichi Richi Railway
* [SHR]: SteamRanger heritage railway.

## Commissioners

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John A. Fargher, a mechanical engineer by profession, became the Railways Commissioneer in 1953. He was Assistant to his predecessor in 1949 on an inspection of gypsum loading facilities at Kevin, on the narrow-gauge Port Lincoln Division.[12]

* Board of Commissioners 1888–1895:[13]

* J. H. Smith[14]
* A.S. Neill
* John Hill.

* Alan G. Pendleton 1895–1909[15]
* Alexander B. Moncrieff 1909–1916[15]
* James McGuire 1916–1922[15]
* William Alfred Webb 1922–1930[15]
* Charles Buxton Anderson 1930–1946[16][17][18]
* Robert Hall Chapman CMG 1946–1953[19][20]
* John Adrian Fargher 1953–1965[21]
* Ron Fitch 1965–1973[15]
* Murray L. Stockley 1973–1975[15]

## Publications

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In June 1965, Rail News was launched as a quarterly staff newsletter.[22] It was published monthly from January 1970.[23] The last edition was published in March 1973; Keeping Track superseded it the next month.[24][25]

## See also

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Portals:

* Railways
* Australia
* Transport

* Bob the Railway Dog
* Glenelg railway line
* SteamRanger Heritage Railway
* Steamtown Heritage Rail Centre

## Notes

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1. ^ Subsequently followed by 68 larger railcars.[4]
2. ^ Ordered from the Service Motor Truck Company, Indiana, which before delivery was taken over by Brill, who built them.[4]: 216
3. ^ Brill supplied 1 assembled railcar and chassis for 24 others; Islington built the remainder.[4]: 220

## References

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1. ^ "Along the line - Goolwa Station". steamranger.org.au. Retrieved 8 December 2024.
2. ^ a b c Jennings, Reece (1990). "Webb, William Alfred (1878–1936)". Australian Dictionary of Biography. National Centre of Biography, Australian National University. Retrieved 2 June 2025.
3. ^ a b Burke, David (1985). Kings of the iron horse. Sydney: Methuen Australia. pp. 118–121\. ISBN 0454007612.
4. ^ a b c d Bird, Kim (October 1981). "Brill railcars of the South Australian Railways". Australian Railway Historical Society Bulletin. XXXII (528). Australian Railway Historical Society, New South Wales Division: 221–229\. ISSN 0005-0105.
5. ^ Colquhoun, Douglas; Stewien, Ronald; Thomas, Adrian (1969). 500: the 4-8-2 and 4-8-4 locomotives of the South Australian Railways. Adelaide: Australian Railway Historical Society (SA Division Inc.). ISBN 0909970122.
6. ^ World Survey of Foreign Railways. Transportation Division, Bureau of foreign and domestic commerce, Washington D.C. 1936. p. 19.
7. ^ Broad Gauge 350-class diesel locomotives Chris's Commonwealth Railways Pages
8. ^ Australian National Railways Amendment Act 1978 Government of Australia
9. ^ Fitch, Ronald J. (1989). Making tracks: 46 years in Australian railways. Kenthurst NSW: Kangaroo Press. p. 135\. ISBN 0864172702.
10. ^ Drymalik, Chris (2021). "Broad gauge steam locomotive information". Chris's Commonwealth railways information (ComRails). Chris Drymalik. Retrieved 16 June 2021.
11. ^ Drymalik, Chris (2021). "Narrow gauge steam locomotive information". Chris's Commonwealth railways information (ComRails). Chris Drymalik. Retrieved 16 June 2021.
12. ^ Fitch, Ron (2006). Australian Railwayman: from cadet engineer to railways commissioner. Dural, New South Wales: Rosenberg Publishing Pty Ltd. p. 232\. ISBN 1877058483.
13. ^ "The New Railway Commissioners". The Adelaide Observer. Vol. XLV, no. 2427\. South Australia. 7 April 1888. p. 31. Retrieved 7 December 2020 - via Trove.
14. ^ "Obituaries". The Observer (Adelaide). Vol. LXXVI, no. 5, 745. South Australia. 1 March 1919. p. 19. Retrieved 7 December 2020 - via National Library of Australia.
15. ^ a b c d e f "Records of the South Australian railways, 1850-1998 (Islington Plan Room Collection)" (PDF). Government of South Australia. Retrieved 12 February 2018.
16. ^ "Mr. C.B. Anderson To Be Railways Commissioner On May 16, 1930". The Register News-pictorial. Vol. XCIV, no. 27, 530. South Australia. 8 November 1929. p. 3. Retrieved 12 February 2018 - via National Library of Australia.
17. ^ "New railway commissioner succeeds Mr. Webb". The Register News-pictorial. Vol. XCIV, no. 27, 530. South Australia. 8 November 1929. p. 1. Retrieved 12 February 2018 - via National Library of Australia.
18. ^ "Railways Commissioner". The Advertiser. South Australia. 8 November 1929. p. 25. Retrieved 12 February 2018 - via National Library of Australia.
19. ^ Jenkin, John. "Research papers on Robert Hall Chapman (1890-1953)". Library Rare Books & Special Collections. University of Adelaide. Retrieved 12 February 2018.
20. ^ "New Railways Commissioner". Chronicle. Vol. 89, no. 5, 066. South Australia. 23 January 1947. p. 34. Retrieved 12 February 2018 - via National Library of Australia.
21. ^ Kemp, Deane; Pickles, John (1996). "Fargher, John Adrian (1901–1977)". Australian Dictionary of Biography. National Centre of Biography, Australian National University. Retrieved 12 February 2018.
22. ^ Editorial Rail News issue 1 June 1965 page 1
23. ^ Staff Education and Training Rail News issue 20 January 1970 page 1
24. ^ Mr Fitch Says Rail News issue 58 March 1973 page 1
25. ^ Commissioner's Comments Keeping Track issue 1 April 1973 page 1

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