Sulphide Street railway station
Sulphide Street | |
|---|---|
The station building, by then a museum, in 2007 | |
| General information | |
| Location | Blende Street, Broken Hill |
| Coordinates | 31°57′33″S 141°27′40″E / 31.9591°S 141.4610°E |
| Owned by | Silverton Tramway Company (1889–1970) |
| Line(s) | Silverton Tramway Tarrawingee Tramway |
| Construction | |
| Structure type | Ground |
| Other information | |
| Status | Re-purposed to museum |
| History | |
| Opened | 2 January 1889 |
| Closed | 9 January 1970 |
| Rebuilt | 1905 |
Sulphide Street railway station, in the city of Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia, was the eastern terminus of the Silverton Tramway. The "tramway" was a narrow-gauge railway built by the private Silverton Tramway Company to circumvent a political stand-off: the New South Wales Government refused to allow the South Australian Government to extend 58 kilometres (36 miles) into the state beyond the 351 kilometres (218 miles) line that took ore concentrates from the state border to smelters at Port Pirie.