Wednesday, April 3, 2013
Peterborough, South Australia, in snow 1900s
Which is probably unusual. Petersburg was renamed in 1917 as it sounded too German, and anti-German sentiment was high because of WW1.
Peterborough was on the intersection of the East-West railway linking Port Pirie and Broken Hill, and the North-South railway linking Adelaide eventually to Alice Springs via Quorn, both narrow gauge (1,067 mm/3 ft 6 in) lines. In 1970 the trans-Australia railway was standard gauged, while the line south of Peterborough to Terowie was broad gauge making Peterborough one of three places in Australia with triple gauge meetings.
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