AUSTRALIAN ROAD TRIP Part 4 : Melbourne to Perth : Historic Burra Railway Station : South Australia

On this road trip, we relocate a motorhome from Melbourne, Victoria, to Perth, Western Australia. We have 8 days and will stop at places of interest, get the drone up as much as possible, and do so as permitted. Burra railway station was built on the Roseworthy-Peterborough railway line to serve the town of Burra, South Australia. It opened on 29 August 1870 as part of the extension of what was then the Northern Extension Railway to Burra. The line was further extended north to Hallett and Terowie in 1880. By 1883, the original wooden and corrugated-iron station building was proving inadequate for the large numbers of passengers stopping for refreshments. A new stone Victorian-style building, complete with refreshment rooms, was opened in October of that year. The arched roof over the tracks and platforms was retained at that time and was not demolished until 1935. The refreshment rooms remained in service until 1936. In 1978, the station and all associated infrastructure were included in the transfer of the assets of the South Australian Railways to the Australian National Railways Commission. Regular passenger services ceased in December 1986. By 1993, the line north of Burra had been closed and removed. In 1997, Australian Southern Railroad (ASR) acquired a 50-year lease on the rail corridor and total ownership of the rail infrastructure as part of the sale of Australian National's South Australian freight assets to ASR. Grain services to Burra last operated in January 1999, with the final rail traffic to the town being a light engine movement by Australian Railroad Group locomotive 843 on 12 March 2004. In 2010, restoration works began on the station building, which by then was badly deteriorated. A community group, the Friends of the Burra Railway Station, was formed in 2014 to raise funds and carry out the work, including the restoration of a dining car that served the Trans-Australian Railway from 1917. Credits and References; State Library – South Australia https://collections.slsa.sa.gov.au/re... https://collections.slsa.sa.gov.au/re... https://collections.slsa.sa.gov.au/re... Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burra_r... By Barry Marshall - National Railway Museum, Port Adelaide, Australia, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index... National Library Australia https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/2245495... https://www.environment.gov.au/cgi-bi... https://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-152106388/... Australian Heritage Database https://www.environment.gov.au/cgi-bi... Motorhome Relocations: https://www.imoova.com/en/relocations... Maui Motorhome Rentals / Sales: https://www.maui-rentals.com/australi... _________________________________________________________________________________________________________ We welcome your comments. If you enjoyed the content, please click the 'thumbs up' or 'like' button and subscribe. Subscribing is completely free and supports our channel. We aim to keep this channel family-friendly and suitable for children as much as possible, but we also encourage viewers to share positive feedback or constructive criticism. Suggestions or ideas for new drone locations, places to visit, or topics to research, such as historical subjects, are warmly welcomed in the comments—even for promoting a business or location! If you need an aerial video for your business or location, we are happy to give it a try. We are a non-profit and do this as a hobby we enjoy. Please send any inappropriate comments, offensive language, or links to your own content to our email address to prevent others from seeing them and to avoid having to delete them from the channel. The same applies to political, religious, discriminatory, or racial remarks. Urban Aerial Explorer can be contacted via email, c/o Ludwig or his son Alexander, at email : [email protected]. Facebook -   / urbanaerialexplorer   Postal address: 2-18 Davisons Place, Melbourne 3000, Victoria, Australia.