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The South Australian Railways ( SAR ) employed no fewer than four distinct classes of 2-8-2 locomotive, the locally designed 700 and 710 class, the 740 class that was originally built for China by Clyde Engineering and purchased by the SAR after the order was cancelled in the wake of the Chinese Communist Revolution, and the 750 class, a group of ten surplus VR N class locomotives.
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As a result of this policy, Adelaide does not share the convict settlement history of other Australian cities like Sydney, New South Wales ; Brisbane, Queensland and Hobart, Tasmania.
However, by mid-1837 the South Australian Register was warning of escaped convicts from New South Wales, and tenders for a temporary gaol were sought.
Following a burglary, a murder, and two attempted murders in Adelaide during March 1838, Governor Hindmarsh created the South Australian Police Force ( now named South Australia Police ) in April 1838 under 21-year-old Henry Inman.
Wool production provided an early basis for the South Australian economy.
In 1867 gas street lighting was implemented, the University of Adelaide was founded in 1874, the South Australian Art Gallery opened in 1881 and the Happy Valley Reservoir opened in 1896.
* South Australian wine
In the state and territory parliaments, Labor governs in South Australia, Tasmania and the Australian Capital Territory.
Australian English started diverging from British English after the founding of the colony of New South Wales in 1788 and was recognised as being different from British English by 1820.
The earliest form of Australian English was first spoken by the children of the colonists born into the colony of New South Wales.
The first of the Australian gold rushes, in the 1850s, began a large wave of immigration, with approximately two per cent of the population of the United Kingdom emigrating to the colonies of New South Wales and Victoria.
ADFA teaches military undergraduates and postgraduates and is officially a campus of the University of New South Wales while Duntroon provides Australian Army Officer training.
In the United Kingdom, His Majesty's Declaration of Abdication Act was, with the consent of the Australian, Canadian, New Zealand, and South African governments, passed through parliament and the Crown thus passed to the next-in-line descendant of Sophia: Edward's brother, Prince Albert, Duke of York.
The practice of the Australian states — for example, New South Wales and Victoria — has been, when legislating to repeal some imperial statutes so far as they still applied in Australia, to provide that imperial statutes concerning the royal succession remain in force.
Australian rules football, officially known as Australian football, also called football, footy or Aussie rules However, late in the century the code began to decline in New South Wales and Queensland largely due to competition with other more popular football codes, as well as interstate rivalries and the lack of strong local governing bodies.
In 1978, the term Barassi Line was used to describe the dichotomy that existed in Australia's football culture, where Australian Football was most popular in all states bar New South Wales and Queensland.
In 1991, it gained its first South Australian team, Adelaide, which paid five million dollars to enter the AFL.
In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the game spread with the Australian Diaspora to areas such as New Zealand and South Africa ; however this growth went into rapid decline following World War I.
* 1975 – As North Vietnamese forces close in on the South Vietnamese capital Saigon, the Australian Embassy is closed and evacuated, almost ten years to the day since the first Australian troop commitment to South Vietnam.
They played 19 games of Australian rules football, against prominent clubs in Victoria and South Australia, winning six and drawing one of these ( see Australian rules football in England ).
South and Railways
Other examples in Asia include Seoul Metropolitan Subway which has suburban lines operated by Korail in South Korea, KTM Komuter in Malaysia, The Philippine National Railways orange line in Metro Manila, Philippines and, KRL Jabotabek in Jakarta Metropolitan area, Indonesia.
In 1910, it was noted in a discussion with the Minister of Railways that a fruit grower at Port Albert ( near Wellsford, less than 150 km from Auckland ) had found it cheaper to ship his canned fruit to Lyttleton in the South Island by boat, and thence back to Auckland again, rather than pay rail freight rates from nearby Wellsford to Auckland.
Robin William Askin was born in Sydney, New South Wales on 4 April 1907 at the Crown Street Women's Hospital, the eldest of three sons of Ellen Laura Halliday ( née Rowe ) and William James Askin, an Adelaide-born sailor and worker for New South Wales Railways.
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Lang also restored the seniority and conditions to New South Wales Government Railways and New South Wales Government Tramways workers who had been sacked or demoted after the General Strike of 1917, including Ben Chifley, a future Prime Minister of Australia.
The airline was initially overseen and controlled by South African Railways and Harbours Administration.
The newly-established identity came under control of the South African Railways and Harbours Administration ( now Transnet ).
Oswego is served by the Union Pacific Railroad and the South Kansas and Oklahoma Railroad, a shortline railroad that provides direct connections to BNSF Railways and the Kansas City Southern Railway.
In 1889 the Public Works Committee of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly recommended that the Government take over the line and it subsequently became a narrow gauge part of the New South Wales Government Railways ( NSWGR ) run under contract by Silverton Tramway.
* Australian National Railways-the formerly federal government owned Trans-Australia Railway, Central-Australia Railway, Country South Australia and Tasmanian Railways operator
Sheffield Park has been restored to a Victorian ambience, as it would have appeared during the time of the London, Brighton and South Coast Railway ( up to 1922 ); Horsted Keynes emulates the Southern Railway ( 1922 – 1948 ); and Kingscote echoes the British Railways of the 1950s.
* South African Railways, a former state-controlled rail transport company in South Africa
* South Australian Railways, a former railways operator in South Australia
As far back as 1885, the then Engineer-in-Chief for the Southern Division Railways arranged for the trial rail survey being done in South Brisbane to be extended across the river to the main western line near Countess Street.
* South African Railways GL class Garratt No. 2352-Built in 1929 by Beyer, Peacock and Company, Manchester.
The completed Welsh Highland Railway or Rheilffordd Eryri ( its Welsh name ) comprises parts of the former London and North Western Railway ( 1867 ), North Wales Narrow Gauge Railways ( 1877 – 81 ), Portmadoc, Beddgelert and South Snowdon Railway and Welsh Highland ( 1922-3 ) Railway.
There was also a Canadian National Railways ( earlier, Grand Trunk Railway ) line running in a North / South direction and crossing the CASO line at Welland Diamond.
Today's largest operators of trains equipped with vacuum brakes are the Indian Railways and Spoornet ( South Africa ), however there are also trains with air brakes and dual brakes in use.
South African Railways ( Spoornet ) operates more than 1 000 electric multiple unit cars, which are fitted with air compressed brakes.
* 1. 51 % ( 1 in 66 ) ( one foot per chain ) New South Wales Railways, part of South line.
South and SAR
The Tavor shares many similarities with the Singaporean SAR 21 and the South African Vektor CR-21.
* South African rand, officially ZAR but often written as SAR
* South Pass is also on the West reef, north of SAR Pass.
Tender from a South African Class 25 4-8-4 | SAR Class 25 condensing locomotive ; note the large radiator section
SAR Class 21 2-10-4In 1937 the South African Railways ( SAR ) placed one Class 21 steam locomotive with a Texas wheel arrangement in service, designed as a mixed traffic locomotive suitable for light rail.
Many of these locomotives came into South African Railways ( SAR ) stock in 1912, but were never classified.
Many of these locomotives came into South African Railways ( SAR ) stock in 1912, but were never classified.
By 1922, when the SAR took control of all railway operations in South West Africa ( SWA ), only one single Illinge locomotive survived to be absorbed onto the roster of the SAR.
Heavy SAR Garratt class GMAM at Oudtshoorn loco depot, South Africa, 1979
Dübs builder's plate on South African Class 6 4-6-0 | SAR Class 6 439Another preserved loco that was originally built in 1882 for Natal Government Railways ( NGR ), a predecessor to South African Railways, is a Dubs Class-A NGR No. 88 that has been restored and preserved by Umgeni Steam Railway ( Durban, South Africa ).
The South African Navy, South African Air Force and South African Police Service adopted a short carbine version of the 5. 56 mm Galil SAR, which was license-manufactured as the R5.
On, this wheel arrangement was first used by the South African Railways ( SAR ) in 1927.
* CNN International South Asia based in Hong Kong SAR, China
The South Australian Railways ( SAR ) reached Victor Harbor in 1864, when a railway connected pier was constructed.
British made 4-6-0 designs began to be imported into South Africa, beginning with 92 locomotives built by Robert Stephenson and Company and Neilson and Company between 1878 and 1884, which later became South African Railways ( SAR ) class 04.
In 1912, when these locomotives were assimilated into the South African Railways ( SAR ), they were classified as Class Experimental 4.
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