Pinnaroo railway line, Victoria

This article is about railway line in Victoria. For the associated railway line in South Australia, see Pinnaroo railway line, South Australia.

The Pinnaroo Line serviced the agricultural districts of the Mallee in the Australian states of South Australia and Victoria for the freight of grain, although there were periods of passenger travel on the line in previous years (the last passenger service between Ouyen in Victoria and Pinnaroo in South Australia being in 1968).

Pinnaroo railway line (Victoria)
Overview
Status	gauge conversion
Termini	Ouyen Pinnaroo
History
Opened	25 June 1912 (1912-06-25)
Closed	4 October 2007 (2007-10-04)
Technical
Track gauge	1,435 mm (4 ft 8+1⁄2 in) standard gauge
Route map Legend Victoria km from Melbourne Pinnaroo railway line to Tailem Bend 606.774 Pinnaroo South Australia Victoria state border 599.079 Panitya 589.171 Carina 580.861 Murrayville 562.311 Cowangie 552.573 Tutye Boinka 532.054 Linga 522.614 Underbool 510.544 Torrita 501.640 Walpeup 486.341 Galah 471.758 Ouyen station Mildura line ← to Ballarat & Melbourne │ to Mildura & Yelta → Source: [1] This diagram: view talk edit

The railway line was the means to open up the agricultural lands with the supply of goods and services from rural centres sustaining the remote area. It was completed from Ouyen to Murrayville in 1912 and extended to Pinnaroo in 1915. In 1996 The line stopped at Panitya due to gauge conversion at the state border when the South Australian end was converted to standard gauge.^[2] It was booked out of service on 4 October 2007.^[3]

As part of the Murray Basin Rail Project, the line from Ouyen to Murrayville was upgraded to 19 tonnes axle loading and converted to standard gauge in 2018.^[4]

References

1. vicsig.net: Home » Rail » Infrastructure » Panitya Line
2. "Ouyen-Pinnaroo Railway Line" (PDF). VRHistory. Archived (PDF) from the original on 1 September 2011. Retrieved 15 March 2012.
3. "Panitya Line". VICSIG. 29 December 2013. Archived from the original on 29 August 2016. Retrieved 4 August 2015.
4. Murray Basin Rail Project (PDF). Public Transport Victoria. 2014. p. 5. Archived (PDF) from the original on 27 January 2018. Retrieved 20 July 2018.