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The Steamtown Heritage Rail Centre ("Centre") is a static railway museum based in the former railway workshops located in Peterborough, South Australia. Peterborough was the administrative and service centre for the Peterborough Division of the South Australian Railways, [1] employing up to 1,500 people in the workshops during its heyday. The ...
Peterborough is a town in the mid north of South Australia, in wheat country, just off the Barrier Highway. It was originally named Petersburg after the landowner, Peter Doecke, who sold land to create the town. It was one of 69 places in South Australia renamed in 1917 due to anti-German sentiments during World War I.
In 1986, ownership of the rolling stock of the Steamtown Peterborough Railway Preservation Society was vested in the council by the Parliament of South Australia following a parliamentary inquiry. [5] The Corporate Town of Peterborough ceased to exist in 1997, when it amalgamated into the surrounding District Council of Peterborough. [6]
The company was a wholly owned subsidiary of Imperial Holdings Ltd. Jurgens provided employment for 970 in South Africa and had 70 employees in Australia. [7] Jurgens Ci had a dealer network in South Africa and Namibia, and exported units to Australia, the Netherlands and New Zealand. [8] Jurgens also had a production facility in Melbourne ...
Fort Glanville Conservation Park is a protected area located in the Australian state of South Australia located in Semaphore Park, a seaside suburb of Adelaide consisting of a functional 19th century fort listed on the South Australian Heritage Register and some adjoining land used as a caravan park. The fort was built after more than 40 years ...
The Steamtown Peterborough Railway Preservation Society Inc. (known colloquially as Steamtown and Steamtown Peterborough) was a not-for-profit incorporated society that operated a heritage steam railway from Peterborough, South Australia, north along a section of the Peterborough to Quorn railway line, between 1977 and 2002.
The District Council of Peterborough is a local government area in the Yorke and Mid North region of South Australia. [2] The principal town and council seat is Peterborough ; it also includes the localities of Cavenagh , Dawson , Hardy , Minvalara , Nackara , Oodla Wirra , Paratoo , Parnaroo , Sunnybrae , Ucolta and Yongala .
The Peterborough Development Corporation was established in February 1968, as a national government initiative, following the city's designation as a third-wave New Town in July 1967. It was based in the Gilbert Scott designed Peterscourt in the city.