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Pichi Richi Photographs Index

I first met the Pichi Richi Railway well before I started taking railway photos in earnest. Indeed, I might almost say that the Pichi Richi Railway started all this! It was when I first started going out with my not-yet-wife, and we did a camping trip up to the Flinders Ranges with a bunch of friends. We camped near the Saltia Bridge, in the creek bed (very much a no-no, for those of you who know their camping rules!), and explored the adjacent railway line. Its derelict status made an impression on me, to the extent that I started researching the current status of railways in Australia, and made contact with the Australian Railways Historical Society, and ... well, the rest is another story, but when I saw through those connections that a fledgling Pichi Richi Railway Society was being formed to restore that line, I joined up.

At Easter 2003, my wife and I made a return journey to the Flinders - some 35 years after that camping trip, and 30 years after joining the society - and travelled on the PRR. We spent a day with the railway, seeing the brand new W22 in service, and caught W933 leaving Quorn a few days later. We must make a point of returning sooner than 35 years ...

W class 4-8-2

Image : dir=tourist/prr/ page=index 81740 bytes, 800x600 pixels Date : 20 Apr 2003, catalogued 03 May 2003 Photographer : John Hurst Medium : digital camera (Canon S40), image location IMG_6862 Description : Getting ready for the first train of the day. W22, having just returned from Port Augusta during the night, is being coaled, while NT76 is about to run the car set down to the Quorn platform. NM25 looks on in the background.

Image : dir=tourist/prr/ page=index 97909 bytes, 800x600 pixels Date : 20 Apr 2003, catalogued 03 May 2003 Photographer : John Hurst Medium : digital camera (Canon S40), image location IMG_6953 Description : Just as I was getting set to pop the shutter on W22 running around its train at Woolshed Flat, along comes Mr F Witt, and plonks himself down in my photo.

Image : dir=tourist/prr/ page=index 96680 bytes, 800x600 pixels Date : 20 Apr 2003, catalogued 03 May 2003 Photographer : John Hurst Medium : digital camera (Canon S40), image location IMG_6953-FW Description : Just as I was getting set to pop the shutter on W22 running around its train at Woolshed Flat, along comes Mr F Witt, and plonks himself down in my photo. Here we see my revenge.

Image : dir=tourist/prr/ page=index 109431 bytes, 800x600 pixels Date : 20 Apr 2003, catalogued 03 May 2003 Photographer : John Hurst Medium : digital camera (Canon S40), image location IMG_6954 Description : Just as I was getting set to pop the shutter on W22 running around its train at Woolshed Flat, along comes Mr F Witt, and plonks himself down in my photo. Now you see him ...

Image : dir=tourist/prr/ page=index 107866 bytes, 800x600 pixels Date : 20 Apr 2003, catalogued 03 May 2003 Photographer : John Hurst Medium : digital camera (Canon S40), image location IMG_6954-FW Description : ... Now you don't

Image : dir=tourist/prr/ page=index 107512 bytes, 800x600 pixels Date : 20 Apr 2003, catalogued 04 Apr 2004 Photographer : John Hurst Medium : digital camera (Canon S40), image location IMG_6905_1600x1200 Description : Against a typical Flinders Ranges backdrop, W22 chuffs her way to the top of the Summit on the Pichi Richi line.

Image : dir=tourist/prr/ page=index 91833 bytes, 800x600 pixels Date : 20 Apr 2003, catalogued 04 Apr 2004 Photographer : John Hurst Medium : digital camera (Canon S40), image location IMG_6949_1600x1200 Description : W22 runs around the triangle at Woolshed Flat. Notice the careful attention to detail in the restoration of this elegant loco.

Image : dir=tourist/prr/ page=index 122087 bytes, 800x600 pixels Date : 20 Apr 2003, catalogued 04 Apr 2004 Photographer : John Hurst Medium : digital camera (Canon S40), image location IMG_6963_1600x1200 Description : W22 is ready to return her train from Woolshed Flat back to Quorn.

Image : dir=tourist/prr/ page=index 101853 bytes, 800x600 pixels Date : 20 Apr 2003, catalogued 04 Apr 2004 Photographer : John Hurst Medium : digital camera (Canon S40), image location IMG_6990_1600x1200 Description : I tried hard to get a full dead side on of W22, but my wide angle and the Quorn Goods Shed meant I had to trim off her buffer beam!

Image : dir=tourist/prr/ page=index 64359 bytes, 800x600 pixels Date : 20 Apr 2003, catalogued 04 Apr 2004 Photographer : John Hurst Medium : digital camera (Canon S40), image location IMG_7003_1600x1200 Description : W22 gathers momemtum as she heads out of Quorn, and readies to tackle the climb to Summit.

Image : dir=tourist/prr/ page=index 1591550 bytes, 2272x1704 pixels Date : 20 Apr 2003, catalogued 19 Oct 2005 Photographer : John Hurst Medium : digital camera (Canon S40), image location IMG_6963 Description : W22 waits to depart Woolshed Flat with a train for Quorn

Image : dir=tourist/prr/ page=index 1054277 bytes, 1704x2272 pixels Date : 20 Apr 2003, catalogued 19 Oct 2005 Photographer : John Hurst Medium : digital camera (Canon S40), image location IMG_6969 Description : W22 waits to depart Woolshed Flat with a train for Quorn. In the distance can be seen Devil's Peak.

Image : dir=tourist/prr/ page=index 1317146 bytes, 2272x1704 pixels Date : 20 Apr 2003, catalogued 19 Oct 2005 Photographer : John Hurst Medium : digital camera (Canon S40), image location IMG_6990 Description : A glinty dead-side-on of W22 in Quorn yard.

Image : dir=tourist/prr/ page=index 1143916 bytes, 2272x1704 pixels Date : 20 Apr 2003, catalogued 19 Oct 2005 Photographer : John Hurst Medium : digital camera (Canon S40), image location IMG_6997 Description : W22 leaving Quorn. This picture gives a good idea of the surrounding countryside around Quorn.

Image : dir=tourist/prr/ page=index 1601867 bytes, 2272x1704 pixels Date : 20 Apr 2003, catalogued 19 Oct 2005 Photographer : John Hurst Medium : digital camera (Canon S40), image location IMG_7009 Description : W22 approaching Summit. In the distance can be seen Devil's Peak.

Image : dir=tourist/prr/ page=index 100400 bytes, 800x600 pixels Date : 22 Apr 2003, catalogued 18 Aug 2003 Photographer : John Hurst Medium : digital camera (Canon S40), image location IMG_7194 Description : W933 waits for departure from Quorn station with a morning train to Woolshed Flat

Image : dir=tourist/prr/ page=index 103987 bytes, 800x600 pixels Date : 22 Apr 2003, catalogued 18 Aug 2003 Photographer : John Hurst Medium : digital camera (Canon S40), image location IMG_7195 Description : W933 waits for departure from Quorn station with a morning train to Woolshed Flat

Image : dir=tourist/prr/ page=index 105482 bytes, 800x600 pixels Date : 22 Apr 2003, catalogued 18 Aug 2003 Photographer : John Hurst Medium : digital camera (Canon S40), image location IMG_7196 Description : W933 waits for departure from Quorn station with a morning train to Woolshed Flat

Image : dir=tourist/prr/ page=index 119716 bytes, 800x600 pixels Date : 22 Apr 2003, catalogued 23 Aug 2003 Photographer : John Hurst Medium : digital camera (Canon S40), image location IMG_7197 Description : One for the rivet-counters! A DSO of W933's tender at Quorn, waiting to depart.

Image : dir=tourist/prr/ page=index 108773 bytes, 800x600 pixels Date : 22 Apr 2003, catalogued 23 Aug 2003 Photographer : John Hurst Medium : digital camera (Canon S40), image location IMG_7198 Description : A study of W933 at Quorn, waiting to depart.

Image : dir=tourist/prr/ page=index 85222 bytes, 800x600 pixels Date : 22 Apr 2003, catalogued 23 Aug 2003 Photographer : John Hurst Medium : digital camera (Canon S40), image location IMG_7203 Description : W933 departs Quorn, against the station yard backdrop

Image : dir=tourist/prr/ page=index 107199 bytes, 800x600 pixels Date : 22 Apr 2003, catalogued 23 Aug 2003 Photographer : John Hurst Medium : digital camera (Canon S40), image location IMG_7204 Description : W933 departs Quorn

Image : dir=tourist/prr/ page=index 34928 bytes, 800x174 pixels Date : 22 Apr 2003, catalogued 24 Aug 2003 Photographer : John Hurst Medium : digital camera (Canon S40), image location W933-a Description : A composition photo, constructed from W933-3 and W933-4

NT76

Image : dir=tourist/prr/ page=index 94027 bytes, 800x600 pixels Date : 20 Apr 2003, catalogued 04 May 2003 Photographer : John Hurst Medium : digital camera (Canon S40), image location IMG_6865 Description : NT76 heads out of Quorn loco with the car set for the morning passenger run on Easter Sunday, 2003

Image : dir=tourist/prr/ page=index 69285 bytes, 800x600 pixels Date : 20 Apr 2003, catalogued 04 May 2003 Photographer : John Hurst Medium : digital camera (Canon S40), image location IMG_6866 Description : NT76 and W22 side by side in Quorn loco

Around the Railway

Image : dir=tourist/prr/ page=index 76364 bytes, 800x600 pixels Date : 20 Apr 2003, catalogued 04 May 2003 Photographer : John Hurst Medium : digital camera (Canon S40), image location IMG_6871 Description : The beautifully restored Quorn station. When I last saw this station building in 1967, it was looking much the worse for wear!

Image : dir=tourist/prr/ page=index 52754 bytes, 800x600 pixels Date : 22 Apr 2003, catalogued 18 Aug 2003 Photographer : John Hurst Medium : digital camera (Canon S40), image location IMG_7192 Description : A road overbridge in the section of the disused line from Quorn to Peterborough, near Quorn

Image : dir=tourist/prr/ page=index 65180 bytes, 800x600 pixels Date : 22 Apr 2003, catalogued 18 Aug 2003 Photographer : John Hurst Medium : digital camera (Canon S40), image location IMG_7193 Description : A section of the disused line from Quorn to Peterborough, near Quorn

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